20 years of coach's

[PEC]

How many different coach's have the Magic had in it's 20 years?

Who were those coach's?

Which ones would you say were the best including SVG?

 

BTW on this side note Jerry Sloan of the Utah Jazz had his contract extended he has coached the Jazz including this season for 21 seasons. WOW!!

I wonder how good the Magic would have been with the same coach for 20 years???

 

Here is an all telling quote from Coach Jerry Sloan:

 

"Size doesn't make any difference; heart is what makes a difference."

 

I think of several players, but Nelson comes to mind right away.

[PEC]

How many different coach's have the Magic had in it's 20 years?

Who were those coach's?

Which ones would you say were the best including SVG?

 

BTW on this side note Jerry Sloan of the Utah Jazz had his contract extended he has coached the Jazz including this season for 21 seasons. WOW!!

I wonder how good the Magic would have been with the same coach for 20 years???

 

Here is an all telling quote from Coach Jerry Sloan:

 

"Size doesn't make any difference; heart is what makes a difference."

 

I think of several players, but Nelson comes to mind right away.

[no_ma'am]

i did it in my head first, but i forgot richie adubato.

 

1 Matt Guokas 1989

[KillingInTheNameOf]

No_Ma'am covered the other questions...

 

Best coach, easy, Chuck Daly. The mistake was not hiring him 5 years earlier and waisting the Shaq/Penny team on Napoleon.

 

SVG is easily the 2nd best coach we've had.

 

Guokas would be 3rd imo. Brilliant x's & o's coach, but was horrible relating to the players, and his substitution patterns were even worse.

[Mr Charisma]

quote:

Originally posted by KillingInTheNameOf:

Best coach, easy, Chuck Daly. The mistake was not hiring him 5 years earlier and waisting the Shaq/Penny team on Napoleon.

I remember hearing several years before Daly was hired that the Magic attempted to hire him, but Daly rejected the offer because he felt that Gabe was not qualified enough to do a good job as a GM.

 

You probably have more knowledge to whether there is any accuracy to that.

 

I totally agree with you. Chuck Daly is 1st.

 

SVG is 2nd. And none of the others were good enough to receive a ranking of 3rd, but I would probably go with Goukas.

 

If we had 8 coaches in our history, Brian Hill would rank 12th.

[PorkSlap]

Johnny Davis FTW!!

[PEC]

quote:

Originally posted by no_ma'am:

i did it in my head first, but i forgot richie adubato.

 

1 Matt Guokas 1989

[PNuT1423]

quote:

Originally posted by PEC:

quote:

Originally posted by no_ma'am:

i did it in my head first, but i forgot richie adubato.

 

1 Matt Guokas 1989

[KillingInTheNameOf]

quote:

Originally posted by Mr Charisma:

I remember hearing several years before Daly was hired that the Magic attempted to hire him, but Daly rejected the offer because he felt that Gabe was not qualified enough to do a good job as a GM.

 

Could be, but I have no idea when this would have occured. The ONLY reason Guokas was fired, err resigned, was because he was adamently against drafting Penny over C Webb, & he was immediately replaced with Napoleon after that draft without any type of coaching search. Unless the organization held a secret interview with Daly at some point during that process or while Hill was coach, I have no idea when this could have occured.

 

quote:

Last question Doc Rivers coached for the Magic yet no one mentioned him on their top list was he that bad considering what is going on in Boston (or is just that he can't lose with what he has in Boston) just asking.

 

Considering how Boston has won, I give Tom Thibadeou more credit that Doc for "coaching" that team. Perhaps even KG.

[J-Pat Attack!]

quote:

Originally posted by KillingInTheNameOf:

quote:

Originally posted by Mr Charisma:

I remember hearing several years before Daly was hired that the Magic attempted to hire him, but Daly rejected the offer because he felt that Gabe was not qualified enough to do a good job as a GM.

 

Could be, but I have no idea when this would have occured. The ONLY reason Guokas was fired, err resigned, was because he was adamently against drafting Penny over C Webb, & he was immediately replaced with Napoleon after that draft without any type of coaching search. Unless the organization held a secret interview with Daly at some point during that process or while Hill was coach, I have no idea when this could have occured.

 

quote:

Last question Doc Rivers coached for the Magic yet no one mentioned him on their top list was he that bad considering what is going on in Boston (or is just that he can't lose with what he has in Boston) just asking.

 

Considering how Boston has won, I give Tom Thibadeou more credit that Doc for "coaching" that team. Perhaps even KG.

doc had a big say in keeping john amaichi instead of ben wallace

[KillingInTheNameOf]

quote:

Originally posted by J-Pat Attack!:

doc had a big say in keeping john amaichi instead of ben wallace

 

That's actually not true. Doc lobbied to keep Wallace & the choice was actually between Outlaw & Wallace. The organization choose to honor their commitment to Outlaw and then reneged on a similiar commitment the following year to Ameachi. With that said, Doc still played Garrity more than Wallace while he had him.

[Natmayo]

I believe that Doc has no clue when it comes to judging talent and then coaching that talent.

 

Doc did have a mighty hand in some of our biggest draft busts and couldnt develop any of them.

 

Jeryl Sasser?? Reese Gaines?? Hell we gave up Brendon Heywood for friggin Laron Profit because Doc thought Stephen Hunter would be much better.

 

I give Boston credit, but Ill agree with Kitno that Thibideau should get way more credit than Doc Rivers.