Mike D'Antoni, anyone?

If we presume he needs a good PG to run his system, then wouldn’t the success be more attributed to the PG necessarily, than the actual coach? I’m guessing outside of things like timeouts and rotations, VDN stays out of the way of the team on offense. C.Paul and C.BIllups are doing the real coaching. Granted, M.D’Antoni could produce better rotations I guess, but i’m assuming any “competent coach” could do that too.

If the team were to aim for a new coach, I’d prefer it be a proven defensive minded coach. That would be something the team could use more coaching on.

Defense wins championships.

Absolutely not. If we can run a high-octane offense under VDN, we can run one under just about any highly-regarded coach. It’s defense and rebounding that needs work, certainly not offense.

we’re fine on O, but seem scattered and confused on D. Someone like the new guy in Toronto, Dwane Casey… oh wait

i’m good with cp3 and billups coaching.

lets hire sam cassell after VDNs contract is up this year.

well technically he has one right now in tyson chandler? what are you talking about

but i see your point. d’antoni is a good coach, but he’s not the coach we need. but all aboard the “get rid of vinny” trade. he sucks. he might be masking his deficiencies with cp3 and billups, but he sucks. we need a real coach who can make real adjustments and who can coach some championship caliber basketball.

not like those are easy to find but you get my drift…

I was a big proponent of getting a guy like D’antoni after watching all the stupid endless iso sets from MDSr. Definitely thought the clips needed an offensive overhaul.

Right now, it’s looking more like CP3 knows how to run an offense, but need a little help orchestrating a defense. I think having a defensive minded coach is more important than offensive with CP3. Look at how Monty Williams did with CP3 and really no one else. I remember Monty went into the new job just pushing his defense, and literally handed the offense to CP3 and learned what CP3 wanted to do. They went into last season on a roll with stifling defense.

From D’antoni’s coaching staff though, there is Mike Woodson, who I’ve always kinda liked, and known as a defensive coach. He also had problems with unimaginative offense in Atlanta, but if he came in with a similar mindset to Monty Williams, I think he would be a good fit with the clips.

This post kind of dovetails with something I’ve been thinking about — in a season w/o a pre-season, and no time during the season to coach — how can anybody be coach of the year? In the same way, bringing in a new coach at this point is kind of futile, unless it’s a question of his being ignored by the players.
VdN did not have time to integrate his new players, and as they’re so crucial to the team’s success, it’s really unfair this season — especially so early, to hold him accountable for missed rotations and poor rebounding practice. For all their talent, the Clips aren’t anywhere near their potential as a team. And no coach, starting at this time in this f’d up season, will turn them into one.

So when we say “elite offensive coach” or “elite defensive coach,” it really doesn’t mean very much, except to indicate what types of assistants they will likely hire and focus on. The Clippers have a good (by reputation) defensive-oriented assistant coach that VDN hired as part of his staff. He hasn’t had the personnel prior to this year to really put something together. It is up to VDN to make sure that the team focuses on the defensive schemes created by the assistant.

I would suggest that we let the year play out, let the defensive schemes be set, let the players we have work within those schemes, and see what happens.

How VDN does with his in-game strategic calls will be interesting. MDSr was terrible at the “feel” of the game. VDN will have this year to work it out. He’s pretty lucky that he has a couple of very savvy vet leaders on the floor to guide him in that regard.

Most of the coaching the Clippers will get this year will be on-the-court, and coming from Coaches Billups, Butler, and Paul.

and want to bring in their own coach, would you guys want Monty Williams? Just thought it might be a possibility since new owners seem to like changing coaches, although that assumes someone want the Hornets, but I assume they’ll be sold eventually.

I’ve also heard scott skiles might be on his way out, although that feels like MDSr. round 2. He always seems to do pretty well his first couple years though.

I’d rather Sterling coach the team himself.

Is to try to impress CP3 enough so he resigns, and others like Blake will just follow. I would hope that he extends his contract by 3-4 years, and at that point, we can wait and then pick up Byron Scott. If we get Scott to a long term deal (4 years) I’m sure CP3 will stay with us as long as we have him, not to mention we will have an excellent coach. And just like we are now, we will be able to possibly entice bigger free agents into joining us. It is a pretty long plan, but I believe it could happen.

Hes over rated

I dont know why D’Antoni would even be an option for us.