UNC Basketball Possible coaches - UNC hires ex-Nuggets HC Michael Malone

nycfan said:
I read somewhere that Malone had spent some time at UNC basketball practices etc since he was around town for his daughter’s volleyball. Wonder if Hubert feels used by that now? Or if that is where Malone made his UNC former basketball player connections that seem to have helped here?
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Mack spent time at Fedora's practices in his last year. I'm guessing Larry did not like that in retrospect.
 
NYCBlueBlood said:
So out of curiosity, for somebody who was 100% certain it was time to move on, are you happy now? I don't mean that in an accusing/ bitchy way... I'm grasping at straws to decide myself whether I'm happy. I'm not unhappy now... but don't even know how to start deciding whether this was a good move or not.
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I'm frickin ecstatic, and I was in the Hubert earned one more year camp.
 
I like this hire.

I don't buy that the college game is much different than the pro game. In football, maybe. In basketball, nah.

Recruiting is mostly money now. I'm not sure coaches' personalities matter that much. Fact is that players are making one year commitments, not four year commitments as in past years. As for reaching younger players, the median age of an NBA player is 26. Every team has a few players who are the same age as college kids.

This isn't going to be like Belichick. Admittedly, I didn't think Belichick was going to be like Belichick. But Malone isn't working by choice, not because nobody would hire him. And he's not ancient. And it's much easier to build a roster in basketball.

Was it a panic move? Maybe. But if the panic hire is a guy who won an NBA title with Jokic, well it could be a lot worse. Unlike Belichick, I'd bet Malone still cares.
 
Oh boy

My Nuggets fan friend always complained about how bad Malone was. Cant say I thought about him much beyond that either way. His texts to me today:

“What a joke of a hire. Malone was living off of the creativity of Adelman and the generational brilliance in Jokic”

“His in game adjustments were terrible and nonexistent. He doesn’t develop players and never has”
 
GoHeelsweeeehoooo said:
Im curious who he hires for assistant coaches - anyone from the previous staff gonna hang around? I know Marcus Paige has already left
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Yeah, I'm very curious. It's not gonna be a Doh/Gut situation where he's going to be hated for life by people if he doesn't retain the staff... though it will cost him some if he fires all the family and brings in all outsiders, I suspect. I hope he doesn't go with all NBA assistants. He's going to need some help adapting to the college world. I'd love to see him take on somebody who has had HC experience in college. With an NBA championship under his belt, he should not feel threatened by anybody under him.
 
superrific said:
I like this hire.

I don't buy that the college game is much different than the pro game. In football, maybe. In basketball, nah.

Recruiting is mostly money now. I'm not sure coaches' personalities matter that much. Fact is that players are making one year commitments, not four year commitments as in past years. As for reaching younger players, the median age of an NBA player is 26. Every team has a few players who are the same age as college kids.

This isn't going to be like Belichick. Admittedly, I didn't think Belichick was going to be like Belichick. But Malone isn't working by choice, not because nobody would hire him. And he's not ancient. And it's much easier to build a roster in basketball.

Was it a panic move? Maybe. But if the panic hire is a guy who won an NBA title with Jokic, well it could be a lot worse. Unlike Belichick, I'd bet Malone still cares.
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Which NBA coaches with no college HC experience went on to become good college coaches?
 
Bigs23 said:
Which NBA coaches with no college HC experience went on to become good college coaches?
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How many NBA coaches with no college HC experience have even become college coaches? I'm genuinely asking, it doesn't seem like it would be a long list, but maybe I'm missing something.
 
superrific said:
I'd much rather have Malone than Byington.
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That's where I'm leaning. Byington is too big of a gamble... high risk/ potential high reward. But might get crushed by the change in going from the love fest at Vandy to the 2.3B armchair quarterbacks at UNC. Malone ain't gonna give 2 sh**s what IC posters think of his decisions... and you need some of that to survive in this job.
 
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