I want to point out that in NBA History, most coaches that win multiple championships do not do so with multiple teams unless they are all time coaches like Phil Jackson or Pat Riley. I would rather hire a young coach to start a new culture, then someone like Nurse or Vogel.
by LoyalTurtle3
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I keep saying Greg Buckner. David Adelman could be cool too.
If we don’t get Nurse, I much rather go for a assistant coach.
I’m not sold on Nurse, but he seems like the kind of coach Embiid needs. I think Nurse would push Embiid to get in shape and hold him accountable for folding and choking like he did vs Boston. This team isn’t going anywhere with another vet coach that capitulates to star players.
If I had a choice, I think interviewing Chris Quinn is someone we should consider
I think people are getting way too into trying to read the tealeaves of NBA history. There are around 35 championship winning head coaches. Ever. Let’s just pick a good one and stop overanalyzing historical patterns in a tiny sample.
We had that with brown and then everyone blew a fucking fuse refusing to trust the process and culture
Factos
So if not for the Sixers in 1967 the whole decade would have been Boston! 😂
Who knows? Either Nurse or Vogel could be the next… Alex Hannum lol.
100%. Great post OP.
This pretty much goes for every sport too.
Like do people think Nick Nurse is going to be the guy to win championships with multiple franchises? Is he on par with Phil Jackson and Pat Riley?
Sam or Jay.
There also was a certain level of corruption that exists too probably worse in the past – scrutiny now a days is definitely harder for officials to get away Scott clean with corruption as sheer volume of cameras and social media can catch them cheating fairly easily
I swear if Philly signed coach pop 10 years ago, half this sub would complain and say that he hasn’t shown how to win outside of San Antonio…
I truly don’t understand why so many people want Nick Nurse. The dude was carried to a title in his rookie season by prime Michael Jordan aka Kawhi, then had an average to downright mediocre next 3 seasons.
I’d much rather some star rising assistant coach. Let Nurse go to Phoenix or Milwaukee
This chart is literally useless. The overwhelming majority of coaches that only won with one team never left that team. What it shows the most is that if a coach wins with your franchise, he’s probably good enough to do it again at least once.
Doesn’t Kerr have 4?
Unrelated statistic but 25% of all NBA Finals saw Pat Riley either as player, coach or manager/president/director.
I am with you. I rather try and find the next Phil Jackson than ride my team around with a coach that resembles a previously owned 2013 Toyota Camry with over 100k on it.
Too risky to hire a wildcard Sam Cassel when we’re apparently keeping embiid and contending. No thanks. Unless it’s Jay Wright, don’t talk about trying someone who’s got no milestones.
Edit: Chris Quinn also a top candidate if we’re removing the realistic aspect.
This is some small sample size bullshit, and ignores the fact that coaches that win championships with multiple teams are considered all time coaches.
Sam…
Way too many sample size/survivorship bias issues here.
It’s just really hard to win multiple period. Often times it’s just a few teams winning a lot of rings during a limited period of time. So it’s not surprising they wouldn’t win when they wind up on worse teams.
It makes more sense to put stock into what the coach actually did with the talent they were provided with than to just go off of random factoids.
Fact is Nurse has continuously made teams that weren’t the best on paper perform very well. Between that and leaving it to actual experts to judge his strategies I’ll take that over random drivel.