Coach K with the LakersFollow

I want a reply damnit!!!

I would find it hard to belive if Coach K actually ended up leaving Duke to coach our disfunctional team out here in LA. Don't get me wrong I want him to coach here as I have great respect for the man despite the fact that I cannot stand Duke. He right up there with the greatest College hoops coaches of all time tih Dean Smith and the Wiz of Westwood (my Alma Mater). I don't think he comes but I can dream can't I.

College coaches never succeed in the NBA because they're far too accustomed to having their players listen to them. If Coach K and Shavlik Randolph (or however you spell it) have a dispute, who's gonna have to give? Replace Randolph with Kobe and then what? Well, assuming they resign Kobe (which may or may not happen), one of them is a lot safer than the other and it ain't Coach K.

He's smart enough to know that this would be the case. The other thing is that Duke can out-recruit anyone. In the NBA, it's a bit less unbalanced. After all, being in LA is a great selling point.

But no, I don't think he'd head to the NBA. Why tarnish your legacy? Stick with what works.

Edit: Justin Leone is the future.

Edited, Fri Jul 2 19:19:58 2004 by detlef

That's a hell of a lot of money they're offering him. They must regard him quite highly.

Well, okay, Larry Brown. But what about Rick Pitino, Lon Kruger, and John Calipari? What about Tim Floyd? There's a high rate of failure there.

He right up there with the greatest College hoops coaches of all time tih Dean Smith and the Wiz of Westwood (my Alma Mater).


Smith, maybe. No one's up there with Wooden yet.

I wouldnt leave either if I was him, What to go have to put up with whiney Kobe, who has so far gotten rid of one good coach already and is working on getting rid of the best player in the league


For 40 mil guaranteed I could put up with a lot of whining.

Well what about Chuck Daly? He won 2 championships with the Pistons


Wasn't much of a college coach.

Larry Brown won an NCAA title.

I assumed he ment sucessfull ones.

That and we're talking about coach K, who I'd consider fairly successfull.

We just got Steve Nash and already had a good power forward, small forward shooting guard, now if only we could get SHAQ =)


Who did they trade for Nash? He's may favorite white Canadian hippy pointgaurd.

K'd be crazy to try and fill the shoes of Phil. Three championships in five years? There's no way he could pull that off-- and don't think he wouldn't be measured against that kind of success. Better to wait for a couple of caoches to go in there, lose, and then talk with Buss about taking over the Lakers. Because let's face it, if Kobe is part GM, then the only thing K'd be doing is looking pretty on the sidelines and deciding when to call timeouts to give the team a breather, because he for sure wouldn't be telling the Rapist what plays to run or if he should be passing the ball more.

Totem

Lol no your full of **** plain and simple if I was making my salary now in a job I was absolutely sure to get respect at would I take a job for 20x more my salary. Really how much is enough? If I am worth 40 million do I really need to be worth 80 million and risk discrediting myself. Does 80 million really change my standard of living that much? Does uprooting my family make it worth it? Does having to deal with supersize egos make it worth it? You are acting like Coach K is worth 40k not 40 million put in perspective then get back to me.

Edit--cause I have a another thought, if your a sports fan then you ought to realize that asking a Phoenix Suns fan to go to the Lakers is like asking a Michigan fan to go to Ohio State, or for my neck of the woods an ASU fan to go to UofA.

Edited, Sat Jul 3 06:22:57 2004 by flishtaco

Edit--cause you maybe asking if I at my 32k a year job would take the Lakers job for a guarenteed 5 years at 40 million, and your damn right I would, I love my team and all but at 8 million dollars a year I would gladly wear a Lakers jersey and let Kobe tell me what to do.

Edited, Sat Jul 3 07:39:49 2004 by flishtaco

If I am worth 40 million do I really need to be worth 80 million and risk discrediting myself. Does 80 million really change my standard of living that much?


Yes. You're making a common mistake of people not born into wealth. Coach K doesn't have to change his lifestyle if gets more money. It's for the future security of his family and their families. It's not about spending it.