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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
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Do you think we will be able to hire a coach before the draft starts? I think it's pretty important to do so, to get some input from the guy who will be running things into who we pick. I know drafting Wiggins is a no-brainer if we get the #1 pick, but I think everything else after that is subject to opinion.
 
YB85 said:
No way they go two months without a coach in place.
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I can't remember what team it was, but didn't someone wait til like the day before the draft to hire a GM? Or was it a HC? I don't remember, but I'm pretty sure i remember it happening, or being super close to happening.
 
Yes, I do think the timing allows a new coach to be in place before the draft. But I disagree on the amount of input he'll have in regards to the pick. It will be minimal. Lindsey, Perrin, Sloan, the international scout (I forget his name) and even KOC will have the major input. I think the more important deadline for the coach and his staff is summer league. You want to give the new staff time to evaluate Burke, Gobert, the new pick(s), etc. If I were the new coach, I'd even ask Favors, Burks and Kanter to attend practices. I don't include Hayward because he doesn't have a contract.
 
Core4 said:
Yes, I do think the timing allows a new coach to be in place before the draft. But I disagree on the amount of input he'll have in regards to the pick. It will be minimal. Lindsey, Perrin, Sloan, the international scout (I forget his name) and even KOC will have the major input. I think the more important deadline for the coach and his staff is summer league. You want to give the new staff time to evaluate Burke, Gobert, the new pick(s), etc. If I were the new coach, I'd even ask Favors, Burks and Kanter to attend practices. I don't include Hayward because he doesn't have a contract.
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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.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
I can't remember what team it was, but didn't someone wait til like the day before the draft to hire a GM? Or was it a HC? I don't remember, but I'm pretty sure i remember it happening, or being super close to happening.
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I remember that. I think it was the GM who they made stay and create their draft board before firing him, I believe.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
I can't remember what team it was, but didn't someone wait til like the day before the draft to hire a GM? Or was it a HC? I don't remember, but I'm pretty sure i remember it happening, or being super close to happening.
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I remembered POR firing their GM Kevin Pritchard literally 3-4 days before the draft. (but was asked to carried out his duty before he leaves)
 
Core4 said:
Yes, I do think the timing allows a new coach to be in place before the draft. But I disagree on the amount of input he'll have in regards to the pick. It will be minimal. Lindsey, Perrin, Sloan, the international scout (I forget his name) and even KOC will have the major input. I think the more important deadline for the coach and his staff is summer league. You want to give the new staff time to evaluate Burke, Gobert, the new pick(s), etc. If I were the new coach, I'd even ask Favors, Burks and Kanter to attend practices. I don't include Hayward because he doesn't have a contract.
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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.
 
Also, I think I remember a football team going into the draft without a HC in place?

Terrible memory doe.
 
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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