[Danny Marang] Most recently an assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors, Nate Bjorkgren has been working as a consultant for the Portland Trail Blazers since the beginning of last season. Multiple sources confirm that he’s a very strong candidate to be hired to the Trail Blazers coaching staff.
by sean_buttcannon
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Danny, is he as big a tool as the reports say?
Not sure what I expected but a coach trying to rehab his image makes a lot of sense for a lame duck season
No thanks, hard ass pass. Holy cow no thank you.
Let’s bring back Terry Stotts
Is he reporting on a report made yesterday?
For an optimistic take: he worked under Nurse and while he can’t manage the soft skills of being a head coach he clearly is a good tactician. Chauncey can inspire the team — now we have someone else who’s knows Xs and Os well and has been an assistant on a championship team. I’ll give it a shot
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2942713-inside-the-turbulent-tenure-of-indiana-pacers-coach-nate-bjorkgren
>In Phoenix, when Bjorkgren was elevated to an assistant under Earl Watson, he operated in an often clandestine fashion, sources told B/R, and sought ways for himself to channel daily communication from players and other coaches to Watson.
>”He would get in early and kind of orchestrate the path for himself,” said a Western Conference assistant general manager.
>That behavior seems to have continued in Toronto. One league source compared the dynamic to Bjorkgren acting like a politician’s chief of staff, at points preventing other coaches and Toronto’s players from holding conversations with Nurse that did not go through Bjorkgren first.
>”He would do things like police the communication about the team schedule on a road trip and when other people got a hold of it, so he was in control,” said the person with knowledge of the situation.
>”It’s one thing if the head coach designates his lead assistant as a person to delegate communication, as a means to organize your business. It’s another when that person seems to be doing it without the head coach’s direction,” said the aforementioned assistant general manager.
Well that’s disappointing
inb4 danny insinuates that he’s known about this the whole time but is only just now letting us in on his secret sauces.