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.
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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 0 recs
Attention to detail
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
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 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 0 recs
Curious how some equate fairly criticizing a coach's horrible sub .400 w'l record
with “hating.” I guess those folks are just more comfortable as lemmings. I find that sad, but it is what it is.
by Jax on Sep 17, 2009 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We
could have the sickest Coaching lineup if we get Grugich(sp?) too.
by peterghost on Sep 17, 2009 11:21 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I assume this means no Gurgurich
In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. - Elwood P. Dowd
by Steve Perrin on Sep 18, 2009 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is pretty sweet
Dunleavy’s in a groove right now, hopefully he can somehow carry it over into the regular season.
by ghost_ride on Sep 18, 2009 10:21 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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