Deron questions an institution

[Xiao Yao You]

Great coaches probably can coach anyone. Sloan has only had great PF's and PG's though. But than I don't think job security makes one great.

[bokes15]

I personally don't think that great coaches can turn shit into diamonds.

[Xiao Yao You]

I guess you're right he's great. He certainly never turned shit into diamonds.

[bokes15]

Originally Posted by Xiao Yao You

I guess you're right he's great. He certainly never turned shit into diamonds.

The point was that the qualification of a great coach shouldn't be the players who he coached. Even great coaches need great players to win championships, and there are very few exceptions to that.

[Xiao Yao You]

The point was that the qualification of a great coach shouldn't be the players who he coached. Even great coaches need great players to win championships, and there are very few exceptions to that.

Sure and coaches shouldn't be considered great just because of job security either. With any other frachise in sports he's fired in the early 90's. Does he have a George Karl or Rick Adelman like career or PJ Carleisimo?

[Xiao Yao You]

Jazz general manager Kevin O’Connor made Knicks president Donnie Walsh aware for the first time that it could have been Deron Wiliams wearing the Knicks jersey and not Anthony if those days and dealings had gone differently. As O’Connor told Walsh approximately an hour before the game and would later repeat in an interview with NBA Confidential, he targeted the Nets’ and Knicks’ assets and decided to play the waiting game. Somebody would lose in the Anthony sweepstakes, and that team would immediately hear from O’Connor to discuss a marvelous Plan B.

Why not offer him before as a plan A? Knicks would have preferred Williams running the pick and roll with Amare to Carmelo and Amare fighting over shots certainly. Just plain stupid.

New Jersey played that role in the end, jumping at the chance to give the Jazz the same package they’d presented to the Nuggets in order to land Williams after Anthony went to New York and signed a three-year, $65 million extension. O’Connor said other teams had inquired about the All-Star point guard in the days leading up to the deal, but not the Knicks or the Nets. New Jersey general manager Billy King said the possibility was first raised after Anthony was traded. “(O’Connor) called me just to say sorry about (not getting) Melo,” King said by phone on Wednesday. “We talked about that, and he made another proposal not including Deron. I countered with something including Deron. He said, let me think about it, then he countered another way, then said, ‘let me talk to the owner and let’s talk in the morning.’ He calls in the morning and says, ‘we’ve got a deal.’”

He countered once. Done deal. Amazing! If the Nuggets had done that they would have gotten a lot less than they did by dragging it out.

[Xiao Yao You]

You had a playoff team in Utah, right? I had a playoff team in Utah. We had a good team but we never made any. …I guess they did make trades, they traded me, but other than that, they never did anything significant and it kind of frustrated me. New York Daily News

Been frustrating me for over 30 years now!