John Lucas to Join Clips as Assistant!

This is from Lisa Dillman:

reallisaJohn Lucas over in Clipper offices now. Completing finishing touches for him to join Clippers as assistant coach. One-year deal. More TK.

GREAT news as far as I'm concerned. Lucas is WELL respected by players around the league and helps bolster our reputation as a changed franchise.

over 2 years ago madglove 17 comments 1 recs |

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I agree. Good news.

by Jax on Sep 17, 2009 1:12 PM PDT reply actions

plus he could still play a few mpg at the point

when baron gets dinged…

agreed this will be a good pickup

No gang...... Independent....

by Clipochistic on Sep 17, 2009 1:51 PM PDT reply actions

These are the kinds of moves that mean a ton but that most fans and bad organizations don’t understand the value of. It’s not always about paying big money for players. It’s about building a quality organization from the top down and bringing in quality staff.

With the new training facility and actually making desireable offers to guys like John Lucas, I’m really impressed. I never thought Sterling would agree to pay for things like that. He never seemed to understand how important they were. Now we’re making moves that signal to the rest of the league that the Clips are starting to “get it” and care about doing the little things to build a quality team.

You can knock Dun’s coaching (and I do) but somehow he has Sterling’s checkbook hostage.

by madglove on Sep 17, 2009 3:35 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

+1

I totally agree.

by Lawler 4ever on Sep 17, 2009 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions

Me two...

by John Raffo on Sep 18, 2009 8:49 AM PDT up reply actions

Haha...that makes sense.

For sure, MDsr’s got some dirt on him

by banandy on Sep 18, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions

Good move to groom him for Head Coach,

MDSr. may be doing a good job after all?

LA Times Link.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/09/clippers-nba-1.html

by HVYDRT007 on Sep 17, 2009 3:53 PM PDT reply actions

Thanks!

by madglove on Sep 17, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions

according to that link, lucas trains lebron...

planning ahead to make a play for lebron in 2010?

by jon y on Sep 17, 2009 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Heh

He has a worse head coaching record than MDSr, but its “Good news” and “a good job”.

I guess to be honest we would have to stop banging on MDSr’s W/L. But when hating on MDSr, its rarely about honesty so I won’t hold my breath.

by John R on Sep 17, 2009 4:54 PM PDT reply actions

Well to be fair

We didn’t hire him as a head coach. Many assistant coaches around the league don’t even have head coaching experience, let alone a sterling win-loss record.

Plus, when comparing him to who was already on the coaching staff as assistants, it’s an obvious upgrade.

by madglove on Sep 17, 2009 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions