THE MAN HAD TO WORK HARD FOR EVERYTHING HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED FOR HIMSELF. I CAN TELL YOU HE IS A WINNER. EVERY GOOD COACH HAD TO BE A GOOD STUDENT BEFORE MOVING INTO THE HEAD POSITION. GIVE KEITH A CHANCE.

I ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT COACHING GOOD PESONALITIES COULD GET YOU FURTHER THAN COACHING GREAT TALENT. BECAUSE, GREAT TALENT DON’T THINK THEY CAN IMPROVE (THEY THINK THEY ARE ALREADY THERE).

Guess i’ve got trade exception on the mind.

We could do worse than Smart I suppose. And maybe folks questioning his hire, if it does indeed slowly lead up to his hire over the next two years (at most with Nelson,) will give Keith and the team something, some folks to aim at, to overcome, to shut up.

Hey, Smart could be great. I remember thinking, and i’m getting old, that Marv Levy was a terrible hire by the Buffalo Bills. The guy leads his team to four SBs in a row. Didn’t win one, but at least he didn’t get in his teams way to four straight. (true, the AFC was worse then, but that’s a lot of winning. Actuallly, to say Levy was a failure or overrated is to say Beane is.)

Ahem…I will just have to trust Smulson.

The Warriors, even as they will attempt to balance their team with some size and D and prepare it for the future after Nelson, while trying to win now, will still be a unique team offense wise. In need of someone who has been around it or already really knows it. At least for the next few years, it’s what they’re built for, not withstanding large trades. So, Keith is who those guys have chosen to groom for this. He has to know the concepts, the personality even of coaching this style.

I guess when he tries what is one of my concerns, and his command of the team is the other.

Who knows, maybe he’ll be better at choosing when to purposefully foul the other teams poor FT shooter once in the penalty, with 6 minutes to go in the 2nd quarter. gotta love the don

Does anyone reading this remember from his CLE days how Smarts coaching went over and of course the circumstances he faced in a very limited opportunity on an interim deal to close out a poor season there without good chance to prove anything (although it’s posible to do more than he did in that situation, i can’t say i deeply know the situation, and most times there really is none…in that situation?)

I’d really like to hear those who do get confidence from Smart. What do you see in him? What qualities do you see in Ketih?

And forget the drinks with umbrellas – Nellie needs to open up some whiskeyfire next year. Can’t wait
’til the last two games to teach BD to get with the program.

Then again, without a suspension for the Capt this year, the year won’t start with an 0-and-too many record.

Whatever happens, GO WARRIORS!!

Some guys just think creatively without trying, it’s who they are. Smart doesn’t seem to posess this quality. From his plastered on smile or at least a grin, he seems to me a lot like what Mullin is without the smiles….a good, basketball guy, well liked, connected….but lacking that uniqueness that defines guys who are without doubt their own man. (I always thought this of Mullin then he came in and proved it to me by all his incredibly foolish signings he clearly both shouldn’t have made and needn’t have made. He has an eye for talent enough to take a flyer on Monta, getting a bit lucky, but who’s to say it wasn’t Nelson’s presence that spurred the Indy trade and led to Wright, indeed who’s to say if not being connected with Nelson, that Mullin wouldn’t look just as AWFUL as a GM as he looked before Don? Remember, the only reason we got BD was the trade exception NO wanted that we had ONLY because NVE demanded a trade and Mullin had to hurry up and find him one before that got bad PR wise. So, Mullin was forced to take Dale Davis off Portland, which led to BD through luck, not planning.)

I hope for all our sakes I’m wrong and Chris just got off to a stupid, naive start but learned his lessons, truly. Likewise, since i think Smart is who we’ll get, i hope i’m wrong about Keith. But guys who are always bubbling with positivity and smiling without saying much new, in positions that need some wileyness and objectivity, IMO, like Smart, don’t make me that excited.

I wish Greg Anthony would drop talking and take up coaching. That guy has a way about him, brains and originality.

avery was a proven leader for the championship spurs, so being a coach was just the logical next step.

but keith smart…he really hasnt proven himself at any level. can he coach a team, make adjustments on the fly, drawing x and o’s. can he win? or is he just another coach along the line of mike woodson. good assistant but cant win as head coach.

i’m all for taking a coach that has proven himself in the coaching ranks. if flip saunders or d’antoni becomes available, i rather have them coach the w’s than having smart do it.

that’s why i wanted to see w’s go after kelvin sampson, and groom him to be the next coach in line. but too late.

So I’d vote for D’Antoni, but my dream coach would have d’Antoni’s offense with more emphasis on defense.