Yes please. Where do I sign?
He and Langdon have ties.
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Yes please. Where do I sign?
He and Langdon have ties.
Would love Atkinson! A perfect fit!
Breaking: The Brooklyn Nets are mutually parting ways with coach Kenny Atkinson, the team announced. pic.twitter.com/xyKmHJpmyC
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 7, 2020
Uhhh yes
Wow im surprised about this news... i would easily hire him as our next head coach... if gentry doesn't mind being an assistant coach i could keep him as well since the players seem to really like him..
This is Budenholzer 2.0
Why exactly was he fired?
Sean Marks and Atkinson had several conversations and the sense had been that a change was inevitable and both sides decided that there was no sense waiting on it. Both had felt that Atkinson and Nets had run course together. They have maintained a close relationship.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 7, 2020
Kenny Atkinson will be in tremendous demand on the market, especially with teams executing a rebuild. There's no question about his comfort level and track record leading those teams. https://t.co/jlAS1WEkKd
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 7, 2020
Wow, could he have just fallen in our laps?
He’s still a fantastic development coach. Which whom we desperately need. His game management and adjustments/decisions are pretty average. Horrible at managing superstar personality.
We already get the poor game management and adjustments without the development from Gentry. Either way, he is an upgrade.
I'd still interview Hammon and Tim Duncan..
Kyrie is a got damt cancer, I’m betting dollars to donuts that his lame ace was behind this. It’s harder to move a big money cancer than a coach.
Some players felt that Kenny Atkinson had lost some of the locker room recently, which is fairly common when teams struggle. This may ultimately be inconsequential but you probably won’t find a bigger Mark Jackson fan than Rich Kleiman, Kevin Durant’s business partner/manager.
Ehhhh... Really cooled off on Atkins. Rather try new coaches than retreads.
Lol, he is a 42-40 developmental coach. He is not gonna outcoach teams deep in the playoffs.
Once you see the teams lining up and their roster. It'll make sense. Quit buying into the hype of every reject that comes into the market. He's a last middle pick that we must move on right when our guys hit their prime before we Scott Brook'd the team.
He is a great coach for untalented teams till you gather enjoy talent for his flaws to come out. Plain and simple.
So a guy who is known as a good coach, gets the Nets into the 7th seed (so far) without Durant, and with Irving only playing in 1/3 of their games.... And they fire him.
Sounds smart to me!
Sounds like it was mutual.
He probably didn't want to deal with Irving's BS.
He made chicken salad out of chicken ********.
I read on twitter earlier, not sure who it was, that part of the issue was Jordan coming off the bench behind Allen.
Yeah, I don't really get it.
The example that I've been given a lot when Gentry's apparent developmental skills come up is actually AD, but I don't buy that. I feel like with hyper talented players, of course you work with them the same way any coach would, but they kind of develop or not based on their own capacity. That's why you get players like KAT becoming all-time offensive players despite never having had a great, modern, offensive coach.
Nobody ever attributes Lebron's massive success to studying at the school of Paul Silas and Brendan Malone.
It's pretty bad when we had this discussion last year and we really was struggling to put names. We was like Gentry got all these super amazing offenses, but so little of players he got. He developed. I think that's also when we coin Gentry as a Veteran Daycare Coach.
Lonzo and BI improvement was all credit to Vinson.
Anthony was just as good in his final season under Monty than he ever was under Gentry. If you want to make the argument for Gentry being a good developmental coach, you have to tag Ingram and Ball. Other than that, God no.
I feel lile the most relative answers are the incredibly raw but disappointing development of...
1. Buddy Heild
2. Hayes
3. NAW
4. Melli
Melli development was basically through experience. Letting Wood leave is another error in talent evaluation by Gentry, because he had to be developed.
Young players need structure. By his own admission, their is no structure involved in 'Gentry Ball'.
Something I have noticed about Alvin is that he coaches better with glasses. Is it a vision problem that causes Alvin to be a bad coach? Is the simple solution is for him to wear his glasses permanently? Didn’t Kurt Rambis have this same issue?
Yes, but that's cause they're injured. When Kyrie has been available to play, he has started. When KD is healthy next year, he will start. And I'm pretty sure that thy probably want their best friend DAJ starting too, or at least playing heavy minutes; right now, he's averaging 21 minutes a night, and has spent much of the season coming off the bench behind Jarrett Allen. That's cause Atkinson at least plays his young talent and works to develop them. KD and Kyrie probably want their friend starting, and they want him playing significant minutes.
Does that make sense? No. Does Kyrie Irving, at least, ever make sense? Also no.
Just to add to the “player revolt” angle, I think it’s worth noting that in his latest pod Zach Lowe also said “I know for a fact there are several players who are upset about this decision (to fire Kenny)”. There is also video of Caris Lavert being interviewed about it and he doesn’t seem to thrilled to see him go. He also pushes back on the notion that Kenny’s voice stopped carrying weight in the locker room, although curiously mentioned “...but you knows? We do have a lot of new guys this year and you know how that goes.”
It’s also being rumored that Jordan will be reinserted into the starting lineup over Allen today, which would be telling.
Jacque Vaughn tells us DeAndre Jordan will start over Jarrett Allen today against Chicago.
— Alex Schiffer (@Alex__Schiffer) March 8, 2020
I'd include Hayes in that trade in a hot second. He'd learn a lot behind Jordan I figure. They're pretty similar.
Nah, I feel that vastly undersells Jax's upside. DJ was never as fluid in his movement as Jax is, and as a result never projected to have the perimeter defense abilities that Jax has the potential to get. At the same time, DJ's dreadful touch and FT shooting is a far sight from Jax's relatively pretty and smooth form at the line, and he's already hit a couple of 3s and long 2s in both Summer League and the regular season that show his potential range to be far greater than DJs as well.
They're similar in that they're both tall guys with good leaping abilities who can protect the rim. The similarities end pretty much there, though.
I don't think I want Hayes trying to stretch and be a shooter. He wnats to swat shots and be in the right position to defend the rim. Plus, I want Caris LeVert.