76ers Hire Eddie Jordan

by Jeff Clark on May 30, 2009 8:11 AM EDT in Boston Celtics News & Links

ESPN.com reports Eddie Jordan is new Sixers coach. Celtics assistant Tom Thibodeau was a candidate, but still has a shot at another job as he is slated to interview with the Kings on Saturday about their head coach opening in Las Vegas. If Thibodeau doesn't get Kings job, Celtics president Danny Ainge has said the free agent will have a contract offer awaiting him to return to Boston.

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Great Horses..........

…………..make great trainers.

Great players……………make great coaches.

Rarely the other way around.

No disrespect, just calling it like I see it. Come back Tom T. With a healthy team next year, you can stir the brew again.

by DrD on May 30, 2009 8:46 AM EDT reply actions

For as many great players that make great coaches, there’s at least 2x that are horrible. Magic Johnson, Bob Cousy are just a couple that come to mind. ex-players as coaches seem to be more the popular pick these days, but there was a time when a lot of great coaches were just that, great coaches that came up through the ranks.

- JoeB

by joeb on May 30, 2009 9:13 AM EDT up reply actions

Huh?

I guess I can see how you could read it that way.

However, as I read it, he’s saying that coaches who can be described as ‘great’ are, at least in part, a result of the players made available to them

Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk

by mcpu40 on May 30, 2009 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, I re-read DrD’s post and I now interpret it differently. I agree that you need the horses. However, there are a few coaches that can bring out the best with what they have to work with (sort of like the anit-Phil Jackson).

- JoeB

by joeb on May 30, 2009 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions

Eddie Jordan was an uninspired decision made by a worried GM who was unwilling to take a chance on a fresh face.

by Who on May 30, 2009 8:52 AM EDT reply actions

Eddie Jordan was good pick

He got screwed in Washington. Fired for not winning when all his starters were injured.
However, all we need to do is get past Sacramento – another team prone to doing the wrong thing and some dark horse team that is liable to need a coach by summer’s end and we’ll have him back

by Wildblu1 on May 30, 2009 9:03 AM EDT reply actions

Thibs deserves a head coaching job

With that said, he still has a chance in Sacramento, but I wouldn’t mind seeing him back in Green (in a very selfish way).

- JoeB

by joeb on May 30, 2009 9:11 AM EDT reply actions

Not surprising

This is why the 76`ers are the 76`ers!

No titles in 26 years…and their champiodship “drought” has barely begun.

by Title 18 on May 30, 2009 1:23 PM EDT reply actions

thibs has a bit of auerbach in him. maybe it’s the way he always is yelling when the c’s are on defense. jordan’s a good coach. he got jobbed in wash.

by nazzbo on May 30, 2009 9:15 PM EDT reply actions