Comments on: Is Smart the Right Call?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:01:55 +0000

Keith has paid his dues and deserves to be the Warriors head coach.He has the ability to be an outstanding coach
if given the opportunity.The team is a young one and Smart will get the Warriors to the playoff if you give him time.

By: haastheman

haastheman — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:08:29 +0000

Smart is the wrong choice for one big reason. He was in charge of orchestrating the defense. What defense. Our defense was terrible the last few years. Our players were constantly lost on defense, and looked clueless. Look forward to more of the same.

By: GSWTruth

GSWTruth — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:40:54 +0000

Nellie was always a “win-now” specialist. He wasn’t the guy you brought in to win a championship. The best rosters he ever had was in Dallas and RunTMC. But his specialty was to win now with a subpar roster until the dust settle on a rebuilding team. If you look at his record, he rarely had loosing season. The last few years in Oakland were an anomoly, look at the first two. It’s not that he didn’t believe in defense as much as I don’t think he ever expecting to win championships with the teams he had. I mean, the buy played for Boston and won championships. He’s knows what is takes to win. He also knows he is never given players like Bird, Jordan, Magic, Shaq. The best player he’s ever coached was probably Mullin, Dirk and Nash. I look forward to Smart. His biggest upside is that he’s young enough he hasn’t created his identity as a coach. you knew what you were getting from Nellie, you hired if you wanted to win now (not the playoffs) but just win.

But if you think about it Boston gave a big break to an unkown in Doc Rivers, 4 years removed from being lint in the world of professional coaching he is considered on of the best. Hopefully Smart sees this as an opportunity to be his own coach and not follow in Nellies steps. WE BELIEVE!

By: mark

mark — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:29:41 +0000

As far as Smart being a bad defensive coach, remember that he had to play defense with the guys Nellie selected to play offense…

By: PeteyBrian

PeteyBrian — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:03:44 +0000

Give Smart an opportunity – he’s earned one. If he doesn’t improve the defensive effort, then can him. I like his professionalism – and the players like him.

Get Smart better players and he’ll be a better coach!!!

By: john freeman

john freeman — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:02:38 +0000

Hard to argue with your conclusion – “we’ll see” – )

but anyway …
I am a glass half full kind of guy, so I am all for this.
- He’s the guy we’ve got,
- the players are for him,
- the new owners don’t even own the team yet, so it would be a little surreal to start negotiating with some high-powered dude.

Two things:

1. not so clear to me that he is a Nelson guy. He was hired 3 or 4 coaches ago, correct? To me, another plus. He’s sat on the same bench in the same room looking at the same blackboard listening to 4 different head coaches try hard to sell 4 different things, so he has a wide variety of styles to choose from.

2. analogies are tricky, but this is sort of the Coach Sing situation: Head coach blows up, give the next goy a chance. Too soon to tell on Sing also (still in the “we’ll see” stage with him , but fer sure it’s been interesting so far.

very excited for the new season in any event!

By: An Idea

An Idea — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:09:51 +0000

Kenny “The Jet” Smith. NY really considered him, and he has a little personality and national cache from the tv gig. Smart has been here 6 years, and I wouldn’t even recognize him at the mall.

By: Doctor

Doctor — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:46:40 +0000

History has proven that Nellie disciples typically have their own vision. I want to know what Smart’s is. Popovich and A. Johnson have done quite well for themselves…

By: A's in 2010

A's in 2010 — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:03:33 +0000

Hey, I love Nellie but man… A season without all the stupid, BS mind games? what a relief! There’s got to be other ways to get the best out of a player besides destroying their confidence and publicly humiliating them, right? Cheer up Warrior doom and gloomers, there IS life after Don Nelson. Look at Dallas, they keep on truckin’, 50 win season after 50 win season. Playing small-ball is fun, but not ALL the time. It’s good to combat teams that are more talented than us that way but when you face an inferior team, play them straight up. We lost a ton of games against BAD teams that way, that frustrated me so much. Why are we creating a disadvantage on the boards playing without a center against bad teams? Hopefully Smart can bring a balance there.

By: FreeCell

FreeCell — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:20:20 +0000

# Chris Cohan Says:
September 23rd, 2010 at 9:29 pm

Of course he’s not.
This is a disastrous Non-sale.

Cohan II

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The fool poster “Chris Cohan” is still polluting blog comment sections, after assuring people he would go away and root for another team.

poster “Chris Cohan” == phony, poser, tool