re: tOfficial Pels Coaching Search Thread (minor stein update re: Lee and Green)

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It's so Fletcher to say that Charles Lee who has several years as an NBA assistant coach isn't ready to be a head coach, but Teresa Weatherspoon is a possibility.

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for whatever it matters, spoon does have HC experience and is 19 yrs older than Lee. For whatever that matters... I don't think there's a universe that exists that I would choose T spoon over Vinson if i was that freaking desperate.

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Pelicans HC update:
*Facts & opinion Down pointing backhand index

Billups & Vaughn were Pels #1, 1A

Charles Lee may be good associate HC in NOLA, but not head coach…not yet.

Willie Green now top target, but will DC or Orlando get him?

If not Willie, who?
Maybe Ham, Unseld, Mosley or Weatherspoon

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Not that we should believe a word that comes out of Fletcher's mouth, but how embarrassing would it be if that were true. Losing you top choice to Portland and your other top choice because he would rather wait for another opening later if the Nets do well again. However, if you lose your next choice to Orlando or Washington, that would be as low as you could get.

Unfortunately, I think that is how we ended up with SVG last year. He was all that was left after all of our top choices turned us down.

I don't know if this has been talked about, but I learned yesterday listening to a Will Wade interview that Fred Vinson's son, Corey, used to be a GA for LSU and now he's with Phoenix as Assistant Video Coordinator/Player Development Assistant. We have a bunch of random connections with Phoenix.

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for whatever it matters, spoon does have HC experience and is 19 yrs older than Lee. For whatever that matters

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Did you see Griff's presser from a week or 2 ago? He practically started laughing at the idea of TSpoon as head coach.

Also, a lot of reports seem to indicate Lee was the runner up last time. How can you go from runner up to not ready? This seems like more BS than usual from Fletch.

But I don't think he's making things up, he's just bad at connecting dots. I think people are jumping to the conclusion that the Pels running a full/thorough search for a head coach and not playing the usual NBA game where you fake interview a few candidates and then announce the person you wanted all along means Lee isn't who the Pels wanted all along.

Griff just asked Mrs. Benson to eat a lot of money, of course they're going to do even heavier vetting this time. If you're trying to get away from the mistake of last year then unearthing a better candidate now, like Willie Green, gets you even further removed from the debacle than the guy you should have hired in the first place.

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Monty survived regime change only to see the Benson’s side with a shitty GM over a coach that took a team to the playoffs and players loved. I guarantee that won’t be missed when Willie Green asks Monty on his thoughts about accepting a job from a Benson team.

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Do you really think Monty is holding a grudge over a dead mans decision?

Gayle wasn't doing anything with the team in 2015.

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Do you really think Monty is holding a grudge over a dead mans decision?

Unless by Benson you mean Dennis Lauscha? Which I doubt he had any say in it.

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I mean the same ownership group that chose(and continues to choose) egotistical GM’s over coaches when power struggles or hardship arises, continue to be the one’s cutting the checks and holding the trajectory of your future in their hands if you sign on as coach here. In a league known not be coach friendly, Griff has quickly gained a reputation for standing out even from that crowd and Monty saw first hand that our ownership sides with them.

You’d be a fool to think Monty would come back to this organization after what we did to him, and I guarantee that experience would shade any conversation Monty has with Willie Green. He doesn’t have to hold a grudge to tell the truth, and the truth is there are a lot of red flags coming here if you are a coach.

I’d hope that the allure of Langdon and someone like BI actively participating in recruitment can help assuage those fears, but I’m very interested in who we actually land, and what assistants we can attract with them.

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You’d be a fool to think Monty would come back to this organization after what we did to him

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He gave his boss a Him Or Me ultimatum and Loomis chose the other guy. I honestly believe both Monty and Demps would have been together another year if Monty hadn't forced the issue.

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We're not losing a coach battle to freaking Washington or Orlando.

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You would certainly hope not. That would be embarrassing.

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Willie Green is now the leading candidate in the Pelicans head coaching search. Charles Lee has impressed, but is no longer their first choice, per Source!

#wontbowdown  #NBA LINK

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