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Bomani Jones just played race card on Steve Kerr hire

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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,223
    RoadDawg55 said:

    Tequilla said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    TierbsHsotBoobs said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    Maybe Golden State didn't want to hire one of those retreads. Where is George Karl? George Karl's resume shits on any of those black coaches. Steve Kerr is more qualified than Jason Kidd was. Kerr has been a GM and announcer since he retired. He's always been around the league and had it dialed in.

    They overpaid for Kerr because they had to due to New York courting him. I don't think it is outrageous, even if he is overpaid. These NBA teams are rolling in money. What is over paying by a million or 2 in the big scheme of things? Not every owner is a cheap bastard like Clay Bennett.

    Any time you can replace an announcer who has never been a coach before with an announcer who has never been a coach before, you just have to do it.
    Avery Johnson made the Finals in Dallas after only being an assistant for half a season. Larry Bird, like Kerr, only had front office experience before being named Indiana's coach. Both of those guys made the Finals. Kerr is a sharp guy who gets along with people. He's certainly a smarter guy than Mark Jackson and he certainly will get along with employees better than he did. If you are high on a guy, you hire him. It's a risk and he is getting a lot of money, but that's what happens when you have other suitors.

    I actually don't blame the Warriors for firing Jackson. He's getting too much credit for turning around the Warriors. Scott Brooks turned around the Thunder too. The Warriors got better because Steph Curry improved and stayed healthy. They have also improved the roster around him with Bogut, Thompson, Igudola, and Barnes. Any coach is taking the Warriors to the playoffs, so I don't understand why getting rid of Jackson is making people so upset. Jackson didn't get along with the front office or his assistant coaches. He also is a Bible thumper, yet had a stripper attempting to extort him.
    #dialed in
    I like to go find dead threads that haven't been talked about for 8 months, pull and respond to my own quote, and go way past patting myself on the back and instead go straight to jerking myself off ... that's what I like to do.

    #roaddiefullofhimself
    Lol. I read an article about Steve Kerr this morning and googled Steve Kerr HardcoreHusky. I looked at some NBA threads from last year's playoffs. You weren't very dialed in. I didn't bump those.
    My first comments in this thread:

    You can argue whether or not Mark Jackson should have been fired. His performance on the court would suggest he shouldn't have been. His performance off the court is a bigger question mark.

    Hard to argue the hiring of Steve Kerr though. He's one of the few "talking heads" that when he talks you tend to think "yep, he knows what he's talking about." If you're going to fire Mark Jackson, you better damn well hire someone the caliber of Steve Kerr to replace him.

    Don't sound very dialed in on this one ...

    I definitely undersold the Warriors in the playoffs last year as I didn't think that they'd be able to stay with the Clippers given the front court injury issues the Warriors had going into the playoffs. Real strange series given that all of the Sterling came out at that point.

    The one I was definitely off the mark on was what was going on with Indiana. In many ways I had already drawn a line in the sand on that one so I had to ride it out. I still think that the makeup of Indiana was worth giving Miami trouble but what was going on off the court was too big to get over. Half of my Indiana backing was as much about my lack of belief in Miami - which was proven in the Finals against San Antonio.
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  • HeretoBeatmyChest
    HeretoBeatmyChest Member Posts: 4,295
    Presti is a very good GM….ownership there sucks dick. If they weren't cheap fucks they could build a long-term contender. Maybe ownership decided to get rid of Harden a year before he had to be signed, which resulted in poor trade options.

    Re Tequillas posts, simple guide for following…if they are short, he's right. If they are long, he's wrong.

    Kanter move is interesting.

    Mark Jackson is a bible thumping clown who spouts stupid platitudes all the time. Kerr hire was a great move, obviously.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,223
    RoadDawg55 said:

    Tequilla said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    Tequilla said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    TierbsHsotBoobs said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    Maybe Golden State didn't want to hire one of those retreads. Where is George Karl? George Karl's resume shits on any of those black coaches. Steve Kerr is more qualified than Jason Kidd was. Kerr has been a GM and announcer since he retired. He's always been around the league and had it dialed in.

    They overpaid for Kerr because they had to due to New York courting him. I don't think it is outrageous, even if he is overpaid. These NBA teams are rolling in money. What is over paying by a million or 2 in the big scheme of things? Not every owner is a cheap bastard like Clay Bennett.

    Any time you can replace an announcer who has never been a coach before with an announcer who has never been a coach before, you just have to do it.
    Avery Johnson made the Finals in Dallas after only being an assistant for half a season. Larry Bird, like Kerr, only had front office experience before being named Indiana's coach. Both of those guys made the Finals. Kerr is a sharp guy who gets along with people. He's certainly a smarter guy than Mark Jackson and he certainly will get along with employees better than he did. If you are high on a guy, you hire him. It's a risk and he is getting a lot of money, but that's what happens when you have other suitors.

    I actually don't blame the Warriors for firing Jackson. He's getting too much credit for turning around the Warriors. Scott Brooks turned around the Thunder too. The Warriors got better because Steph Curry improved and stayed healthy. They have also improved the roster around him with Bogut, Thompson, Igudola, and Barnes. Any coach is taking the Warriors to the playoffs, so I don't understand why getting rid of Jackson is making people so upset. Jackson didn't get along with the front office or his assistant coaches. He also is a Bible thumper, yet had a stripper attempting to extort him.
    #dialed in
    I like to go find dead threads that haven't been talked about for 8 months, pull and respond to my own quote, and go way past patting myself on the back and instead go straight to jerking myself off ... that's what I like to do.

    #roaddiefullofhimself
    Lol. I read an article about Steve Kerr this morning and googled Steve Kerr HardcoreHusky. I looked at some NBA threads from last year's playoffs. You weren't very dialed in. I didn't bump those.
    My first comments in this thread:

    You can argue whether or not Mark Jackson should have been fired. His performance on the court would suggest he shouldn't have been. His performance off the court is a bigger question mark.

    Hard to argue the hiring of Steve Kerr though. He's one of the few "talking heads" that when he talks you tend to think "yep, he knows what he's talking about." If you're going to fire Mark Jackson, you better damn well hire someone the caliber of Steve Kerr to replace him.

    Don't sound very dialed in on this one ...

    I definitely undersold the Warriors in the playoffs last year as I didn't think that they'd be able to stay with the Clippers given the front court injury issues the Warriors had going into the playoffs. Real strange series given that all of the Sterling came out at that point.

    The one I was definitely off the mark on was what was going on with Indiana. In many ways I had already drawn a line in the sand on that one so I had to ride it out. I still think that the makeup of Indiana was worth giving Miami trouble but what was going on off the court was too big to get over. Half of my Indiana backing was as much about my lack of belief in Miami - which was proven in the Finals against San Antonio.
    You had a thread titled Joe LacobFS right after he fired Jackson. You weren't dialed in. No big deal. It's a new year. You picked the Clips to beat the Thunder in 5 and the Pacers.
    Lacob definitely needed a home run hire for firing Jackson. Had he replaced Jackson with someone like Tyrone Corbin, then I would think both of us would agree that that was FS.

    I was definitely wrong about the Clippers beating the Thunder. That was a series that could have gone either direction but ultimately the inability for the Clippers to slow down KD was the biggest advantage in the series - which was greater than the Clippers ability to dominate the interior.
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  • Penace
    Penace Member Posts: 496
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    allpurpleallgold said:

    Bomanis question is worth asking.

    If there's been a move away from black coaches it's because black coaches tend to be former players. Most front offices have moved towards using analytics and it seems like the "old school" former players fight it. Front offices don't want to have to fight to implement analytics.

    Anyone with any percentage of brain agrees that Scott Brooks needs to be fired in OKC. So we all agree that winning regular season games and even deep playoff runs does not make you a good coach. The Hollins, Brown and Drew examples are sunk in that comparison.

    The NBA has also been way out in front of every other sport in terms of minorities in coaching and front offices. I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt at this point.

    In the end I think he's wrong. But let's not just cry race card and dismiss the question.

    Dismissal is exactly what needs to be done.

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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Bring Back Our Cockus bump. Also, props to @RoadDawg55 for having pretty much everything in this thread dialed in.
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  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    APAG made a good poont, there's a problematic lack of black quants in front offices because of the structural racism in public schools that privileges kids whose parents are already highly educated.
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  • Lawrence_of_a_Labia
    Lawrence_of_a_Labia Member Posts: 487
    HeretoBeatmyChest said:

    Presti is a very good GM….ownership there sucks dick. If they weren't cheap fucks they could build a long-term contender. Maybe ownership decided to get rid of Harden a year before he had to be signed, which resulted in poor trade options.

    Re Tequillas posts, simple guide for following…if they are short, he's right. If they are long, he's wrong.

    Kanter move is interesting.

    Mark Jackson is a bible thumping clown who spouts stupid platitudes all the time. Kerr hire was a great move, obviously.

    Obviously no Oklahoma City front office to coattail to
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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    dnc said:

    Bring Back Our Cockus bump. Also, props to @RoadDawg55 for having pretty much everything in this thread dialed in.

    Except Scott Brooks.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,392 Standard Supporter
    TierbsHsotBoobs said:

    dnc said:

    Bring Back Our Cockus bump. Also, props to @RoadDawg55 for having pretty much everything in this thread dialed in.

    Except Scott Brooks.
    Never thought Scott Brooks was a really good coach. He's average, maybe a little above average. OKC was the same with Billy Donovan. Donovan was better at managing line ups (save giving Waiters 30+ minutes), but the crunch time offense has always been terrible in OKC. Durant and Westbrook are bascially anti-clutch. Their crunch time numbers are terrible. Part of what makes Curry so great is how clutch he is. I don't know how much of that falls on the coach.
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