I'm related to someone that works at Best Buy and I hear that trading Ingles fresh off his injury was a big deal to Quin. Ingles was the captain of the locker room.
Joe should replace Big T on the broadcast team for a season just to give Boler crap for all his mistakes.Joe Ingles gets my vote. I think that would make for some interesting coach's interviews. Haha
Dont tell jazz twitter, apparently Rudy and Don are already out the door and we are hiring Jim Boylen.I haven’t been through all 17 pages, so please forgive me if this point has already been brought up. Food for thought:
- This past offseason, the Dallas Mavericks and Rick Carlisle parted ways prior to last season after a long tenure and not having much playoff success since a Finals victory during Dirk’s prime. Carlisle was pretty much universally seen as a top 5 NBA coach. Dallas hired Jason Kidd and made it to the WCF’s in Kidd’s first year with the team.
- This past offseason, the Boston Celtics made a coaching change, moving Brad Stevens into the front office and hiring rookie HC Ime Udoka to lead the team. Stevens was held in high regard in most NBA circles. The Boston Celtics have made it to the NBA Finals in Udoka’s first year with the team.
Now before I get roasted, I’m fully aware that we don’t even know what our roster is going to look like at this point for whoever our new HC is. My point is merely that losing Quin is not the be all end all for this team. I keep reading tweets (mostly from media, but a few from the fanbase), that are all too keen to point out just how good of a coach the Jazz are losing. While I’m fully aware Quin is a good coach, he’s also a coach that didn’t want to be here and that certainly had his limitations. I’ll still never forgive him for the 25 point blown lead in the 2nd half vs the Clippers. Coaching cost us that series, period.
There’s no need for Quin’s inability to see his contract out for this move to set the Jazz back. Granted, it’s now on ownership and Danny Ainge to make the right choice on his replacement (amongst a few other franchise altering decisions that loom).
You really think Joe could keep from swearing for a single game, much less the whole season? I know Australians, it's pretty unlikely...Joe should replace Big T on the broadcast team for a season just to give Boler crap for all his mistakes.
I think it’s safe to say both of these takes are unequivocally false.Quin was fired or moving to the front office. Jazz are just being nice letting him frame it this way.
He’s done… he doesn’t know it yet but he’s likely not a rotation player again.
When did you turn into such a clown man?How you called it out as me blaming Donovan… something you say you do… you don’t.
Donovan could lay a steamer on your chest and you’d blame yourself for not having an obvious bathroom labeled.
Quin quit, not fired
About a month ago...Ooops
oh wow. the bolded very interesting. can you provide that link? i'd be very interesting in reading that. thanks!Tony Jones says Adrian Griffin and Johnnie Bryant are two names to watch in Utah's coaching search...he say's Griffin was one of the final candidates when Snyder was hired, and he interviewed well with the Jazz. Says the Jazz are looking for someone who commands buy-in and respect from the entire roster, including Donovan.
Quins departure doesn't change their offseason plans...they still have no plans for a full on re-build. They want to try to make a deep playoff run next season.
They've received a lot of calls about Mitchell and given a firm no... they will only consider trading Mitchell if they receive a monstrous offer.
They have received a lot of interest in both Rudy and Bogey.
Repeats again that the variance for the Jazz is very high...they could make multiple trades involving high level players or they could simply run it back with the bulk of the roster.
I agree. I really liked Quin. I thought he was doing a great job building up the players he was given until the expectations skyrocketed and games of high importance hit him straight in the mouth and his two best players decided it's better to settle scores off the floor than to work together for the common goal. Now part of his job is to deal with that and still steer the ship in the right direction so he must bear some of the responsibility too.Thought this would ultimately happen, but still pretty crazy it actually has.
Quin was still a great coach for us. Great basement raiser and questionable ceiling raiser (possibly due to dysfunctional players).
Griffin reminds me of Udoka in that his name has been in HC hiring rumors for a long time and no one has given him a chance. I want a guy like him that has grinded hard and will give everything now that he has his chance. Bryant may be a good dev coach and I'm fine with that hire even though its the CAA hire.Tony Jones says Adrian Griffin and Johnnie Bryant are two names to watch in Utah's coaching search...he say's Griffin was one of the final candidates when Snyder was hired, and he interviewed well with the Jazz. Says the Jazz are looking for someone who commands buy-in and respect from the entire roster, including Donovan.
Quins departure doesn't change their offseason plans...they still have no plans for a full on re-build. They want to try to make a deep playoff run next season.
They've received a lot of calls about Mitchell and given a firm no... they will only consider trading Mitchell if they receive a monstrous offer.
They have received a lot of interest in both Rudy and Bogey.
Repeats again that the variance for the Jazz is very high...they could make multiple trades involving high level players or they could simply run it back with the bulk of the roster.
Horney just quit the Rockets.Not saying I’d be interested in him to replace Q, but is Jeff Hornacek coaching anywhere right now?
Its in the Athletic so you need a subscription. That's all there really was to it... so not sure you are missing anything.oh wow. the bolded very interesting. can you provide that link? i'd be very interesting in reading that. thanks!
ah, the athletic. thanks.Its in the Athletic so you need a subscription. That's all there really was to it... so not sure you are missing anything.