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Hornacek Front Runner for Suns' HC Job

orangello said:
No offense but I hope you are very wrong about this. I would hope that the season doesn't go as well as the FO would like and that there are several times that games are lost because of poor coaching decisions. Ty gets canned after the trade deadline and Lowe becomes the interim coach. Lowe shows the same inability to make the right decisions and doesn't game plan appropriately.

In the offseason the Jazz look for a coach at the same time they try and extend Gordon. Gordon makes it clear that the Jazz must offer Brad Stevens a lucrative contract to come coach him again or else Gordon will go elsewhere. Stevens accepts the offer because it is too much money to pass up and the Jazz get a top 5 pick in the draft added to the team and great things come to pass from that point on.



I know that I am dreaming in that scenario but you have to dream it before you can achieve it. It has to be a thought first.
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This would be BAWESome!!! I didn't know we were dreaming up scenarios, mine was the realistic version.
 
TheSilencer1313 said:
I really hope this happens to be the case. Many insiders around the league have praised Ty's handling of the Jazz situation, while fans and critics have been on the other end.
I do think Horny is a better candidate, but I'm hoping for the Jazz's sake they're making a good decision here.
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Many people around the NBA also say Al is an elite player.
 
Wow!! What's the deal with all the doom and gloom with Jeff leaving. This pleases the hell out of me, and couldn't be happier about him going. When Ty finally leaves I do not want anyone promoted from with in the org.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
Wow!! What's the deal with all the doom and gloom with Jeff leaving. This pleases the hell out of me, and couldn't be happier about him going. When Ty finally leaves I do not want anyone promoted from with in the org.
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Because the Jazz have the opportunity to replace Ty and aren't?
 
mellow said:
Jeff had to move on. The Jazz management values' in step yes men' and Jeff couldn't always play along. He expressed his disbelief that Jazz took Alec Burks over Kawai Leonard, his coach talk at half time or at the quarters seemed to reveal a thinly veiled disappointment with what was happening with the team.

Good luck Jeff, before I cheered for you I hated you when your Suns were running and gunning 3's past my Jazz. Will I hate you once more when your Suns team runs and guns past my Jazz?
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So everyone looking for a promotion in a highly limited role, as in 30 jobs in the world limited, has soured on their current employer? Okay.
 
I think Horny will be good and I'm glad he's out of this doghouse and that he'll have a chance to prove himself.

The man who decided to extend Corbin in the beginning of the season is a just a moron.

I'm not a racist, but all the great coaches I know were white (just a thought).
 
orangello said:
That was the best example I could think of too.
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I doubt Hornacek really was all that instrumental. It's not like Jeff was working on Derrick's 20-ft jumpers. The fact that the team as a whole didn't improve indicates to me that Jeff was either not responsible for working with them on shooting or whatever he tried to teach just didn't translate. Great players are often not great coaches because whatever they did came so naturally to them. Sometimes they just can't teach how they did it. It's like that in every sport. Sure, there are a few HOF's who became great HC's, managers, etc., but more often, it's the guys who were middle-of-the-road, who had to learn the game and focus on the fundamentals in order to survive and prolong their careers - or even get a shot. Those are the players who generally become the best coaches.
 
MoTown16 said:
I doubt Hornacek really was all that instrumental. It's not like Jeff was working on Derrick's 20-ft jumpers. The fact that the team as a whole didn't improve indicates to me that Jeff was either not responsible for working with them on shooting or whatever he tried to teach just didn't translate. Great players are often not great coaches because whatever they did came so naturally to them. Sometimes they just can't teach how they did it. It's like that in every sport. Sure, there are a few HOF's who became great HC's, managers, etc., but more often, it's the guys who were middle-of-the-road, who had to learn the game and focus on the fundamentals in order to survive and prolong their careers - or even get a shot. Those are the players who generally become the best coaches.
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Yeah agreed with a lot of this.

Hornacek seems like a great guy - but we don't know what goes on behind the scene. It's not like our young guys have improved their shooting so drastically that we NEEDed to keep him around. He also doesn't scream out "leadership material" to me. He seems more like the players' mates type of a coach.

I think though, the main reason they haven't tried to keep him as the next HC is exactly the fact that his number is retired on the rafter. Yeah if he succeeded with us it would be GREAT. But what if he doesn't? It'll be a PR nightmare for years to come.. It's just the added pressure that this young team or the franchise doesn't need...
 
Alec Burk's shooting has gone up quite a bit...

Didn't we think that Jeff was kind of the odd man out on the coaching staff anyway? One of the guys from the old 'regime'? A few years ago I would have been crushed by his departure, but now it just kind of feels right. It makes a difference that he still lives in Pheonix. I'm sure that the other coaches don't have permanent homes here, so maybe it's a non issue, but I think he may be using the Jazz as a springboard, and if so, good luck fella, we'll kick your tail when you come here with your team.

(I still feel like he's more of a high school coach than a pro coach)
 
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