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Nikola Jokic Shares His Thoughts On Michael Malone Becoming The New Head Coach At UNC - Fadeaway World

Nikola Jokic backs Michael Malone to succeed at North Carolina.
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“… For Jokic, the belief is simple. The environment may be different, but the foundation remains the same. And if that foundation holds, North Carolina may have landed a coach who does more than win games. They may have found one who builds players the right way.“
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This should be on the front page of the NYT.
 
rodoheel said:
It's not just the relationship with Jokic. Malone has built both respect and connections in Eastern Europe over the years (though Jokic was certainly the source of a lot of that).
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I guess that is sort of what I said… At least that’s what I meant.
 
I'm calling props now to those who stuck to their guns that we had to make the change. I know I was one who pushed back hard, with grave concerns about how the new coaching search would go (and was going).

Malone is still a risk IMO in not having college ball experience, but everything we're hearing about him and all the immediate moves he's making have been spot on. It's pretty clear that at a bare minimum he will be a step up... which is something I did not feel about a lot of the other candidates who were left. Not to say they couldn't be a big step up, but there were enough question marks about all of them that there would have to be a sizeable leap of faith... much more of one that I think we have with Malone.

We obviously have to wait and see, but I'm feeling pretty good right now that I'll have some crow to eat.
 
Centerpiece said:
I guess that is sort of what I said… At least that’s what I meant.
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I was probably being overly pedantic and didn't mean to suggest you were wrong - just was making clear that (in large part because of Jokic) Malone now has relationships with other people in that scene, too.
 
CarolinaFever said:
Where will Hubert end up? Coaching somewhere else? Back to TV? Chilling at home counting his money?
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Probably the latter. Maybe he can go to games with Roy next year. It certainly doesn't seem that Wanda really wants to be there, at least when the camera is on her.
 
farce© said:
Probably the latter. Maybe he can go to games with Roy next year. It certainly doesn't seem that Wanda really wants to be there, at least when the camera is on her.
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Ha. I thought the same thing about Wanda. She didn’t look like she was in the mood for nana pudding.
 
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