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Will a Coach be Hired Before The Draft?

Will we find a HC before the draft?

  • Yes

    Votes: 32 94.1%

  • No

    Votes: 2 5.9%
  • Total voters
    34
Cyrone Torbin said:
Corbin was accredited for the decision to trade up for Burke. I think you underestimate how much influence a coach has on the draft. At the end of the day, the coach decides how the team plays, so it is imperative you get feedback from the coach on who he thinks he could work with.
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Overstated, I believe. You don't give a lame-duck coach, who was clearly on the hot seat (and more likely to go than remain), final personnel decisions over your lottery picks. Sure he has input. Lindsey probably asked him to rank the PG's (as well as all the other players) in the draft, just as he'd ask everyone involved to come with their draft boards. Everyone would sit down and they'd come up with a consensus board. DL would be the tie-breaker on differences. Trey was likely a guy Corbin really liked. Jazz had an opportunity to move up. Trey was the right combination of BPA and need. Perhaps Burke, McCollum and/or MCW were virtually even in terms of ranking so DL gave the edge to the player Ty wanted most.

I have no doubt Jerry Sloan usually got the man he wanted. There was even the rumor of disagreement between he and KOC over CP3/Deron. I seriously doubt Ty had that kind of sway with Lindsey. Had DL really wanted someone else at #9, he would have drafted him.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
Summer League is the important deadline.

I believe there are some rules on summer practices with coaching staff and players, though. Was bred so that a team can't schedule ridiculous amounts of OTA.
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But no rules on who can or can't play in summer league. It doesn't have to be just 1st or 2nd year players...unless that changed under the new CBA. I remember DWill working out with some of the draft picks in his 3rd or 4th season. There have been other vets who have shown up at summer league, I believe. I might be wrong, but MWP may have done so once.

Didn't Chucker J. Smiles object to a Jazz request to play in summer league after his 3rd season?
 
Core4 said:
Overstated, I believe. You don't give a lame-duck coach, who was clearly on the hot seat (and more likely to go than remain), final personnel decisions over your lottery picks. Sure he has input. Lindsey probably asked him to rank the PG's (as well as all the other players) in the draft, just as he'd ask everyone involved to come with their draft boards. Everyone would sit down and they'd come up with a consensus board. DL would be the tie-breaker on differences. Trey was likely a guy Corbin really liked. Jazz had an opportunity to move up. Trey was the right combination of BPA and need. Perhaps Burke, McCollum and/or MCW were virtually even in terms of ranking so DL gave the edge to the player Ty wanted most.

I have no doubt Jerry Sloan usually got the man he wanted. There was even the rumor of disagreement between he and KOC over CP3/Deron. I seriously doubt Ty had that kind of sway with Lindsey. Had DL really wanted someone else at #9, he would have drafted him.
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The fact that a HC has enough power to sway a decision any kind of way is an important factor and can't be "overstated".
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Corbin was accredited for the decision to trade up for Burke. I think you underestimate how much influence a coach has on the draft. At the end of the day, the coach decides how the team plays, so it is imperative you get feedback from the coach on who he thinks he could work with.
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Yeah, maybe, but could it not also be possible that this is similar to requesting a song on a radio station -- that is to say that someone calls in when the song is coming up on the playlist and they honor the "request"?
 
With how fast they dismissed Corbin it shows they reached this long ago. They already have a short list. We have a coach around lottery time.
 
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