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[8]

Although it sounds like the real locker room cancer has been Stephenson. Hibbert spoke out about "selfish players," which everyone knows was a swipe at Stephenson. And I believe Hill got into it with Lance. If this were the Jazz organization, Stephenson would have been traded. Although maybe it unfolds like it did with Sloan: Vogel is gone and THEN they realize it's a player problem.

Wouldn't be surprised if this is the case, Stephenson has often seemed like a punk to me. That being said, it's still the coaches job to manage all these personalities. He had Indiana playing great ball for the majority of the season, and Stephenson was having a career year. Something happened, not sure where most of teh blame lies, but at the end of the day it's his job to encourage chemistry and make sure everyone is working for a common goal. But maybe Stephenson is a cancer that renders this impossible, idk.

 

[John Crotty]

Wouldn't be surprised if this is the case, Stephenson has often seemed like a punk to me. That being said, it's still the coaches job to manage all these personalities. He had Indiana playing great ball for the majority of the season, and Stephenson was having a career year. Something happened, not sure where most of teh blame lies, but at the end of the day it's his job to encourage chemistry and make sure everyone is working for a common goal. But maybe Stephenson is a cancer that renders this impossible, idk.

i kind of figured the Pacers were good because they were a team with great length, that played unselfishly. They started winning, got big heads, and went away from grinding out wins to 3 or 4 them thinking they were the "man" ....then people got jealous and it all went downhill from there.

 

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i kind of figured the Pacers were good because they were a team with great length, that played unselfishly. They started winning, got big heads, and went away from grinding out wins to 3 or 4 them thinking they were the "man" ....then people got jealous and it all went downhill from there.

Yeah, I think the team thinks they are better than they are. The reason they were so dominant at the beginning of the year is because they were playing with max-effort all the time. Most teams don't do that. When they stopped doing it, they became pretty pedestrian. I think they are better against Miami than anyone else because of how they matchup with them, not because they are the 2nd best team. If they make the finals, which I believe is still very possible, I'd place a huge bet on the Western Conference champ.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Wouldn't be surprised if this is the case, Stephenson has often seemed like a punk to me. That being said, it's still the coaches job to manage all these personalities. He had Indiana playing great ball for the majority of the season, and Stephenson was having a career year. Something happened, not sure where most of teh blame lies, but at the end of the day it's his job to encourage chemistry and make sure everyone is working for a common goal. But maybe Stephenson is a cancer that renders this impossible, idk.

You hear the phrase that winning cures everything. Well, losing does just the opposite. Teammates start pointing fingers at each other, players get called out for not playing defense or for being ball-hogs on offense, players complain about playing time, criticize the coaches, etc. I think it's a credit to the Jazz none of that occurred; at least none that we heard about. Well, until Enes' comment at the end.

 

[mellow]

While lots of people are running to the Messina bandwagon, let's not forget David Blatt who played at Princeton.


David 'Dubi' Pick @IAmDPick
Props to David Blatt. He's led one of the weakest Maccabi teams EVER to the Euroleague Final Four.

 

[bjunior]

While lots of people are running to the Messina bandwagon, let's not forget David Blatt who played at Princeton.


David 'Dubi' Pick @IAmDPick
Props to David Blatt. He's led one of the weakest Maccabi teams EVER to the Euroleague Final Four.

i really hope blatt will land in nba, there are rumours the knicks are interested

i'm not fully against messina, but i do believe that he's not that great and blatt could've been a better choice

 

[David Ginola 14]

@ESPNSteinLine: NBA coaching sources have identified another prime candidate for the Utah Jazz opening: Hawks assistant Quin Snyder

 

[Hantlers]

@ESPNSteinLine: NBA coaching sources have identified another prime candidate for the Utah Jazz opening: Hawks assistant Quin Snyder

Oh hell no.

 

[The Midnight]

Wow.. the plot thickens...

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine 9m
Snyder worked w/Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey in San Antonio and, interestingly, spent a season w/CSKA Moscow studying Lindsey pal Ettore Messina

Could we have a Messina/Snyder combo here in Utah??

 

[The Midnight]

Was Snyder's Head Assistant under Messina??? If so that seems like a perfect match. Both have been assistants in the NBA. Both have worked with each other before.

On July 8, 2012, the European powerhouse team CSKA Moscow of the Russian Professional Basketball League hired Snyder as the head assistant coach.[17] CSKA reached the Euroleague Final Four this season, but lost to eventual champion Olympiacos Piraeus in the semi-final round.[18]

Edit: Yes Snyder was Messina's assistant.

Quin Snyder will be the assistant coach of Ettore Messina in CSKA Moscow.
Snyder spent last season with the Lakers as assistant coach and worked together with Ettore Messina.
Snyder has a long career as coach in the NBA. Prior to his time in Los Angeles, he was assistant coach with the 76ers.

Before Sixers, Snyder spent three highly successful seasons as head coach of the NBA Development League’s Austin Toros, amassing a 94-56 (.627) record while guiding them to three consecutive playoff appearances as well as an appearance in the 2008 D-League championship game. Growing up in suburban Seattle with a poster of the late Hall of Fame Sonics great Dennis Johnson on his bedroom wall, Snyder earned the D-League’s Dennis Johnson Coach of the Year award in 2008-09 coaching Johnson’s former Toros team.

 

[David Ginola 14]

But Messina HC...

 

[Hantlers]

I can handle Snyder as an assistant, but absolutely hell no to him as a HC.