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framer said:
Do tell us the stories that these fools have broken about the Jazz. I know too many "reporters" to take the majority of them seriously. Again, some of them are trying to be controversial because it generates traffic. Everything that DL has done to this point tells me he is not an idiot. Hiring Boylen would be idiotic. I mean truly, mind-numbingly idiotic. The kind of stuff that leads to getting fired idiotic. Even if I had an insider and he told me this, I certainly wouldn't run with it. I would be pissed that he was trolling me. The fact that the national media is picking this up actually depresses me because it tells me they don't care about the Jazz enough to even try.
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Also, if this was simply "reporters trying to get views" why wouldn't they pick a more sexy name to be the imaginary "front runner"?
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
I'm really not that invested in the HC search tbh. I can't say I know enough about coaching to for sure say what we need in a HC, especially when all the candidates we are talking about are mostly people with 0 NBA head coaching experience.

Personally I would rather go George Karl or Lionel Hollins, but if we are looking at unproven people, I don't see how Boylen isn't as exciting as any other candidate being talked about.
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Hollins in the top of my list. He's proven. He's steady. He had a similar roster to us in Memphis. Inside out, grind it out basketball.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Again, no one is breaking this as a story. They are simply saying that Boylen's name is the most discussed.

Boylen is very well respected in NBA circles.



He was previously on Indiana, who had a great, surprising year. Could that success be partially attributed to him? I would say that is a fair statement.



I would be excited to get Boylen personally. I think a lot of Utah people are just scared because he was bad at Utah. College and NBA are different games. I hold his strong track record as assistant over his poor stint as a college head coach.
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Boylen won two titles with Houston as the big man coach! How could anyone not want this guy. He could develop Favors and Kanter! How was his tenure bad at Utah? He took them to the only tournament appearence in 8 years from 2006-2014 they went once.. When Boylen was the head coach. He had two losing seasons and was fired. He just didn't like recruiting and how can you blame him? Honestly it would be hard to get top recruits to come to Utah with programs like Kentucky, UCLA, Louisville, Florida, Arizona, etc. Popovich hired him as his top assistant so that is a seal of approval.
 
cowhide said:
Funny how everyone wanted Ty gone but will they feel the same if the Jazz hire Boylen?
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Probably..... usually fans want crappy coaches gone.

What is your point doe?
 
Hotttnickkk said:
Who was it that developed Marc Gasol, Mike Conley, etc?
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Do you know that he did? And Marc Gasol was in his mid-20's when he came to the league.

I don't hate Hollins, but I don't like retreads that their former teams don't miss either.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Do you know that he did? And Marc Gasol was in his mid-20's when he came to the league.

I don't hate Hollins, but I don't like retreads that their former teams don't miss either.
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Wouldn't say they don't 'miss' him, Memphis really struggled early on in the season and they only really came on strong at the end finishing 7th. Who knows what they would have done if Hollins was still the coach?


Granted, they're doing well in the playoffs, but guys like Udrih and Courtney Lee who the GM brought in this season have also stepped up.
 
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