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Your choice for the next head coach of the Jazz

Who would you want the Jazz to hire out of these three coaching candidates?

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Elizah Huge

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Adrian Griffin, Quin Synder, and Alvin Gentry all have been asked to come back for second interviews with the Jazz regarding their head coach vacancy.

In a scenario with all three of these guys being the final three finalists for the job..

Who would you want the Jazz to hire?
 
I dunno, very tough choice...this is like asking someone what smells better, cat **** or dog ****?
 
Jeff Van Gundy had some really nice things to say about the job, the millers, and the team's position last week on 1280. If he is available after he's done calling the Finals, I would love him. Otherwise, I am interested in Griffin, but it's just a feeling I have. A feeling is a stupid thing to base a coaching hire on.
 
Between Griffin and Snyder, I'd rather have Snyder based off what I've read on Wikipedia.

Snyder has a ton of experience in many different facets of basketball. He has coached College, D-League, and European basketball and seen success on all levels. Why wouldn't that trend continue in the NBA? I like a guy who has experience under his belt.

Adrian Griffin is young and relatively inexperienced. The best thing you can say about him is he has coached under Thibs. Corbin coached under Sloan though, so it's not like coaching under a great coach makes you a great coach.
 
Sexual Favors said:
Jeff Van Gundy had some really nice things to say about the job, the millers, and the team's position last week on 1280. If he is available after he's done calling the Finals, I would love him. Otherwise, I am interested in Griffin, but it's just a feeling I have. A feeling is a stupid thing to base a coaching hire on.
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I'm sure the Jazz have privately asked about his interest and he declined. He'd have the job IMO if he wanted it. My guess for him is he will look for a situation similar to his brothers if he gets back in.

Back to topic. I'm in on Snyder out of these guys. Good coaching tree, winner at different levels, young, players love him and he's bright (MBA and JD from Duke).


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Oh and I like that Snyder has actually been a head coach at some level.


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Cyrone Torbin said:
Between Griffin and Snyder, I'd rather have Snyder based off what I've read on Wikipedia.

Snyder has a ton of experience in many different facets of basketball. He has coached College, D-League, and European basketball and seen success on all levels. Why wouldn't that trend continue in the NBA? I like a guy who has experience under his belt.

Adrian Griffin is young and relatively inexperienced. The best thing you can say about him is he has coached under Thibs. Corbin coached under Sloan though, so it's not like coaching under a great coach makes you a great coach.
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Osmosis is a proven scientific fact. Haven't you heard Boylen is the reason the Spurs are in the Finals?
 
I can't lie, I'm kinda bummed that were are down to those three guys. Quin Snyder burned the Missouri program to the ground and he has a questionable background. Adrian Griffith was an NBA grinder who has never been a head coach. Alvin Gentry coached a fast paced team in Phoenix, but they couldn't play a lick of defense.

At least they aren't Jim Boylen. I'd be down at the ESA with pitch forks if we hired Boylen.
 
Defense should be the #1 priority. Adrian Griffin has the best defensive background with his career and Thibs.

But I trust DL as that is a priority with him also. So if Quinn was hired that would be fine with me also.

I do not want Gentry though as his teams have been horrible and the worst on defense. Unless his first assistant was some master defensive mind. Even then I am unsure.
 
Twin Towers said:
Defense should be the #1 priority. Adrian Griffin has the best defensive background with his career and Thibs.

But I trust DL as that is a priority with him also. So if Quinn was hired that would be fine with me also.

I do not want Gentry though as his teams have been horrible and the worst on defense. Unless his first assistant was some master defensive mind. Even then I am unsure.
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But DL admitted the coaching decision isn't really up to him. He puts the list together, narrows the number of candidates, but then they have to kumbaya around the Miller family campfire and see who cooks the best s'mores.
 
This is 100% DL's decision. I heard the smoke screen Randy Rigby said that it is an organizational decision. NO WAY, this is a complete DL decision. His job is on the line so he better get it right.
 
sojodave said:
This is 100% DL's decision. I heard the smoke screen Randy Rigby said that it is an organizational decision. NO WAY, this is a complete DL decision. His job is on the line so he better get it right.
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Then how do you explain Dennis disclosing that other organizational factors make it a different situation (and he specifically mentioned the Jr. Jazz and allowing locker room access). Highly unusual for that to come out. To me - and this is my opinion only - it sounds like DL was a bit frustrated. I don't know why you'd say anything like that if it had not come up as a factor - perhaps a reason he lost a candidate he really liked.
 
I'm starting to think DL has the homeytennis mentality. That's not a knock on Homeytennis, either. Both are determined to find hidden value under every rock, and both put an awful lot of time in to flipping those rocks.

E.g:

All the camp invites, and those who were on the team for a second this season.
M. Thomas
E. Murphy
Ian Clark
Believing we'd resurrect Beidrins
It's three weeks till the draft, and we've only seen players who'd be in the third round come through.
Our coaching search has only consisted of people we've barely heard of.

Sometimes this frugality and bargain hunting works out, as with Wes Mathews, but a lot of times you get what you pay for.

Maybe DL should put down the coupons and splurge a little on this one, eh?
 
Sexual Favors said:
I'm starting to think DL has the homeytennis mentality. That's not a knock on Homeytennis, either. Both are determined to find hidden value under every rock, and both put an awful lot of time in to flipping those rocks.

E.g:

All the camp invites, and those who were on the team for a second this season.
M. Thomas
E. Murphy
Ian Clark
Believing we'd resurrect Beidrins
It's three weeks till the draft, and we've only seen players who'd be in the third round come through.
Our coaching search has only consisted of people we've barely heard of.

Sometimes this frugality and bargain hunting works out, as with Wes Mathews, but a lot of times you get what you pay for.

Maybe DL should put down the coupons and splurge a little on this one, eh?
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Why do you believe DL believed that?

Just becasue he said it in public statements doesn't mean anything. You aren't going to say 'Yeah, we got this scrub in a trade for picks, he ****ing sucks doe".
 
Maybe the reason we are going after smaller name coaches is because of financial reasons?
 
The reason you keep end of roster guys on is because you might as well. You have already paid them, might as well keep them on until the cut-date to see what you have and have the bodies for practice. Also, if they are still on the team, they have proven they aren't a negative in the locker-room and do their job
 
Sexual Favors said:
I'm starting to think DL has the homeytennis mentality. That's not a knock on Homeytennis, either. Both are determined to find hidden value under every rock, and both put an awful lot of time in to flipping those rocks.

E.g:

All the camp invites, and those who were on the team for a second this season.
M. Thomas
E. Murphy
Ian Clark
Believing we'd resurrect Beidrins
It's three weeks till the draft, and we've only seen players who'd be in the third round come through.
Our coaching search has only consisted of people we've barely heard of.

Sometimes this frugality and bargain hunting works out, as with Wes Mathews, but a lot of times you get what you pay for.

Maybe DL should put down the coupons and splurge a little on this one, eh?
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The GS deal was ALWAYS about the draft picks. The only reason to try to resurrect RJ, Biedrins and Rush would have been to flip them in another deal. But that was always a remote chance due to their salaries. Just because you've barely heard of the coaching candidates doesn't mean they're not solid ones. I'm sure a phone call was placed to Kerr. SVG would have NEVER been an option due to his demands to control the front office as well as the coaching.

DL has been anything BUT timid in his behavior. He moved up in the last draft, made another couple of trades to get players he wanted. Then he went full rebuild with the GS deal. I'm not really concerned about who decides to workout out in Salt Lake. Their agents limit the number of workouts to 8-10. If Lindsey doesn't already have a depth chart for the 1st round, I'd be surprised. I'd also be surprised if it moved very much after all the film, combine and workouts they've already seen. Just because they haven't all come to Utah doesn't mean he hasn't seen guys workout. IINM, the Vonleh and Embiid workouts were attended by several teams.

Jazz also need to stock the Stampede roster, which is new.

As for the "scrubs," every team has several on their roster (even San Antonio). Roster has to be 13 and after most teams pay their top players, they're signing a few minimum salary vets and then backfilling the rest the same way the Jazz do: justy trying to find guys who contribute in practice, are great team-players and might come in in a pinch and get a few loose balls or make a couple of shots.
 
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