Avery Johnson to Alabama

#27
#27
This could be a really good hire for Bama, especially if Coach Johnson can add some good recruiters to his staff. He's done the NBA tour, if he is successful on the collegiate level why go back to the NBA?
 
#31
#31
I'm much happier they hired Johnson as opposed to Marshall. Johnson may end up being great, but at least there are a few questions. Marshall woulda been a grand slam, imo. We came out ok on this one all things considered.
 
#32
#32
Wow...talked big with going after Marshall and end up with an NBA analyst who hasn't coached in 3 years.

This should be good.
 
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#33
#33
Could end up being a good hire, but pretty sure he was not in their top 5 choices.
 
#34
#34
Well he's not the long term solution just like Barnes for us. If he has success then he will be offered another NBA gig and will bolt.
 
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bowlinggreenvol said:
Two guys with Final 4's on their resume pre-college return.
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I'm just pointing out the flawed logic in making a statement that because a guy did not get it done in the professional game that he can't coach.

Avery may fall flat on his face. I don't know. But, I wouldn't assume he can't coach because of his NBA resume.
 
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99gator said:
I'm just pointing out the flawed logic in making a statement that because a guy did not get it done in the professional game that he can't coach.

Avery may fall flat on his face. I don't know. But, I wouldn't assume he can't coach because of his NBA resume.
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I don't think he's a bad coach myself. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.
 
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Notorious B.E.N said:
I think it'll be a good one.
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Bottom of the barrel hire...this is one of those "we couldn't get a real coach so we hired off the bargain rack"...what few Tide fans that care about basketball are screaming for Battle's head...of course I see it as a blockbuster move.:birgits_giggle:
 
#39
#39
Weird hire. He won't be there long when an NBA team calls
 
#40
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99gator said:
I'm just pointing out the flawed logic in making a statement that because a guy did not get it done in the professional game that he can't coach.

Avery may fall flat on his face. I don't know. But, I wouldn't assume he can't coach because of his NBA resume.
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I would assume he's better than 95% of coaches in the world just on the fact he had a head coaching gig in the NBA, and was successful even for a while. Can that recruit? who knows.
 
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Daloth said:
I would assume he's better than 95% of coaches in the world just on the fact he had a head coaching gig in the NBA, and was successful even for a while. Can that recruit? who knows.
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It depends on how we want to measure a coach too.

One of the things I love is how we make guys out to be geniuses who don't possess any more genius than anyone else.

So, we'll see if Pat Riley can build a winner in Miami without making the brilliant decision of signing the best player in the world and another top end all star to free agent contracts.

We'll see if Phil Jackson can build a winner in New York after looking around and not seeing Michael, Scottie, Shaq or Kobe anywhere near the building.

Wonder what their careers would have been like had Riley been hired by the LA Clippers instead of the LA Lakers or if Jackson had been hired by the Boston Celtics in 1990.

For my money, when you factor in everything, the best basketball coach in my lifetime is Larry Brown.

That's just me
 
#43
#43
His son plays at A&M, and I think he was involved with his aau team, so he might have some connections there.
 
#44
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99gator said:
It depends on how we want to measure a coach too.

One of the things I love is how we make guys out to be geniuses who don't possess any more genius than anyone else.

So, we'll see if Pat Riley can build a winner in Miami without making the brilliant decision of signing the best player in the world and another top end all star to free agent contracts.

We'll see if Phil Jackson can build a winner in New York after looking around and not seeing Michael, Scottie, Shaq or Kobe anywhere near the building.

Wonder what their careers would have been like had Riley been hired by the LA Clippers instead of the LA Lakers or if Jackson had been hired by the Boston Celtics in 1990.

For my money, when you factor in everything, the best basketball coach in my lifetime is Larry Brown.

That's just me
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I think recruiting is a bad way to measure a coach because we are the only country in the world that does our pool of players to a professional league through colleges. Imagine if you didn't have a draft, had no max contracts to worry about, and your only limit was the number of players on your roster? That's essentially what college is. To me, a good coach can beat people with the same amount of talent more than he loses, and a great coach can win with less talent or hardly lose with more.

The NBA is as close as we can get to talent being even, and thus we see the best coaches at that level. They don't have to worry about making parents happy or playing time even, just keeping egos in check and winning games, to me that's how you see a coach, not how good of a used car saleseman he is.
 
#47
#47
College is a completely different game. Taking a guy with zero college coaching experience and calling him a HR hire is just laughable. He's used to coaching the best athletes in the world and now will be coaching the talent at Alabama..... Yeah I see this
really working out!

They struck out and panicked.
 
#48
#48
via twitter:

Avery Johnson and Nick Saban will coach at the same school which means they still need to hire someone to get stuff off the top shelf
 
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#50
#50
Are you guys praising this hire being sarcastic?
In no way does this look like a good hire on the surface.
 
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