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Post subject: Jeff Van Gundy Interview
 Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 07:30 PM PST
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MVP, MVP!
Joined: Jun 04, 2008 Age: 25
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I've always liked JVG. If Dunleavy ever decided to concentrate solely on GM duties, I'd hope Van Gundy would be someone he'd consider hiring as replacement coach.
http://sportsradiointerviews.com/2009/1 ... asketball/
Anyway, one part of the interview really stuck out, I thought:
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"Coaching is important in the NBA in the sense of order, the culture you bring for a team and this is what people don’t even talk about now. The system that you bring, does it make sense for your talent? Do your best players buy into who you are and what you are trying implement for your team? If they do, they will sell it to the rest of the group and if they don’t then you are going to be fired. I think that one thing that is misunderstood out there about leadership is that your best players are your leaders. But leadership doesn’t always mean positive leadership. It can be negative leadership and bring a team down as well.”
This is not a dig at Baron or Dunleavy. It actually cuts both ways, I think. Coach Dunleavy has shown himself to be pretty inflexible in the past, particularly the way he feuded with Corey Maggette (though Maggette's ego didn't make things any easier) and also the way he showed little adaption when Elton Brand injured himself in the offseason, insisting on feeding the ball down the block (which worked for Kaman 2.0, but he got injured too, and that strategy stopped working).
On the other hand, whose been the player that best defines the Clippers since Brand's departure? Baron was brought in to fill that role [actually, he was brought in to complement Brand, but that obviously didn't pan out], and then Zach Randolph was added to the team out of desperation [and presumably to fill the role that Brand was supposed to play]. Last season, we got a first hand example of what Van Gundy was talking about. Our best players were a hobbled, mopey Baron Davis and a stat-stuffing headcase in Zach Randolph. 19 wins seems inevitable in retrospect, injuries notwithstanding.
I think also this goes to show how much a guy like Blake Griffin will be missed. As a rookie, it might be difficult to see him as one of the best players on the team, but it's the truth. And in addition to what he brings on the court, his presence was a reminder that this year's team is supposed to be the hard-working, tenacious antithesis of last year's funked-up squad.
0-2 so far, likely to be 0-4 by November. What sort of leadership do we expect to see from these guys then? |
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Miquel
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Post subject: RE: Jeff Van Gundy Interview
Posted: Oct 31, 2009 - 04:02 AM PST
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| I think we should be able to find better options than Jeff Van Gundy |
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clipperboy24
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Post subject: Re: RE: Jeff Van Gundy Interview
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 - 03:15 PM PST
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Miquel wrote:
I think we should be able to find better options than Jeff Van Gundy
yeah, not a huge JVG fan. I still dont know why we dont after someone like Avery Johnson. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Jeff Van Gundy Interview
Posted: Nov 08, 2009 - 01:19 AM PST
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MVP, MVP!
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My point wasn't about Van Gundy, it was about leadership and how the team would respond after starting with 4 losses.
Three game winning streak so far, with a chance to make it four this Monday. |
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