Kevin Young

[homeytennis]

Is to be the Flash's head coach. 28 years old. I wonder if the Jazz will trust him with any of their players?

 

[TroutBum]

Man, I'm getting old.

 

[Shaggy]

and here I thought you wanted the Jazz to sign this guy. lol

 

[prodigy]

https://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/08/02/kevin-young-to-be-named-utah-flashs-next-coach-sources-say/

The NBA D-League's Utah Flash have been on a coaching search since early July when they decided that Brad Jones, the only coach in the team's three-year history, would not be returning next season.

"We picked the right guy to help us start our franchise and it has been a pleasure working with coach Jones," Flash president Joe Brown said in a statement announcing the dismissal of Jones. "After careful consideration, we have decided that we now want to move in a different direction."

One month later, the Flash are expected to name one of Jones' assistant, Kevin Young, as their next head coach, according to sources with knowledge of the hiring.

Young, 28, has served as the second assistant for the Utah Flash for the past two seasons under Jones. Prior to being added to the coaching staff, Young held the title of Director of Basketball Operations during the team's inaugural season. Before joining the Flash, Young was an assistant coach at NJCAA school Oxford College of Emory in Georgia and Utah Valley State where he worked at developing players' skills as well as contributing with video breakdowns and scouting.


Young's head coaching experience includes acting as the general manager and head coach of the Shamrock Rovers Hoops for the Superleague, Ireland's top professional league, during the 2006-07 season. More recently, Young took a traveling team to play exhibition games in China and blogged about his experiences while on the trip.

Aside from a lack of experience as a head coach, Young doesn't have as close of ties with the Utah Jazz, the Flash's closest NBA affiliate, as his predecessor. Though Young has been with the team for three seasons, Jones previously served as a scout for the Jazz in addition to being Jazz coach Jerry Sloan's nephew. This meant that not only were the Jazz comfortable enough with their D-League counterparts to assign Morris Almond, Kyrylo Fesenko and Kosta Koufos -- all three of whom were drafted by team and therefore critical to develop -- but with Sloan and Jones' relationship, the team could also count on the D-League squad running NBA sets.

Though it's difficult to predict how Young will do as a head coach with so little previous experience in the role, the NBA D-League's unofficial motto has always been that it develops everyone involved with the team, not just the players. If Young has absorbed anything from Jones (as well as from fellow assistants Dale Osbourne and Mark Madsen) over the past three seasons, the hiring of the young coach with a familiarity of the franchise might make more sense than it currently looks on paper.

 

[David Stern]

Isn't it obvious that Jones didn't last because of his lack of developing any players at all?

 

[mellow]

just another evidence that shows the D-league is not a second tier farm league--it is much lower, more comparable to the Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer league.

 

[sirkickyass]

Young was an assistant coach at NJCAA school Oxford College of Emory in Georgia

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Never in a million years would I have thought that there would be a connection between my alma mater and the Jazz given that it had a Division III basketball program and offered no scholarships in the sport.

Had you told me there would be a connection between my alma mater's junior-college, backdoor-method into the university that was located in the middle of nowhere in Gerogia and the Jazz, I would have placed the odds at a billion to one.

 

[gregbroncs]

and here I thought you wanted the Jazz to sign this guy. lol

LOL that's was my reaction as well. I was thinking what D-league scrub is this?

 

[moevillini]

don't you sort of wonder what kind of different direction they're hoping to go in? Though as Mr. Stern so aptly pointed out, there didn't seem to be much useful development taking place.

 

[//r00t 4 Jazz]

!

Never in a million years would I have thought that there would be a connection between my alma mater and the Jazz given that it had a Division III basketball program and offered no scholarships in the sport.

Had you told me there would be a connection between my alma mater's junior-college, backdoor-method into the university that was located in the middle of nowhere in Gerogia and the Jazz, I would have placed the odds at a billion to one.

So you gonna start watching Flash games now? Oh and I heard a rumor that Fess' strong recommendation was responsible for this hire, I guess your ol' college days came up during your sweet pillow talk.