A lot of people will say that they want to hire a retread coach (Lue, Kidd, D’Antoni, Atkinson, Del Harris, etc.), but don’t do it. Just. Don’t.Do. It.
It’s not worth hoping that an old system will fit with a new team unless that system is the triangle, or whatever Doc Rivers runs.
Please read.
https://grantland.com/the-triangle/t...-head-coaches/
What we see overall is that it doesn’t make much of a difference whether you hire an experienced NBA head coach experienced with experience, or a nobody from nowhere who’s never coached nobody to nothing. In fact, the evidence points to hiring a first-timer as the better long-term move.