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Jet Jaguar
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Posted: 12/10/16 3:38 am ::: |
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UofDel_Alum wrote: |
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myrtle wrote: |
Pretty weird to hire someone with no head coaching experience, but sometimes you can get lucky pulling a rabbit out of a hat. At least she has been around the game in some capacity for quite a long time and surely learned something under Agler. I'm willing to let her show what she's got.
And frankly when you consider all the re-treads, it's kind of hard to get excited about anybody out there. |
There's a fine line between someone with no coaching experience and a retread. |
What is going to be of interest to me is to see how Amber handles the team. If there was a difference between Pokey and EDD it was Pokey liked to be an X and O's type of coach on offense. Elena has publicly stated she would like the team to play as a team. That is how she played at Univ. of Delaware.
EDD feels the team played better when they had a fast break off the boards and not set up into a particular offense. EDD would like to see more passing on offense. As an example since I know EDD best she likes to make up her own mind if she wants the ball at the 3-point line or in the paint. On the base line or at the free throw line. She realizes a team will defend her a certain way at the beginning of a game and in the middle of the game a team will change how they defend her. She is a very intelligent player and she can recognize very quickly a weakness of a defense.
Two things are very important to EDD, TEAM BOND AND TEAM CHEMISTRY. She feels this is more important than X's and O's. If Amber works these two things into Chicago's offense Amber will do well. Chicago has very talented guards that pass very well and think on their feet. This can help with team bond and chemistry. |
Sounds to me like Amber is going to have to clear things with "Coach EDD" before she does anything.
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UofDel_Alum
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Posted: 12/10/16 8:15 am ::: |
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Wow! Turning over a contending professional basketball team with one of the best players in the world to a person with no head coaching experience. Must have been a hotly contested job... |
I have to make something very clear. I am not advocating EDD should be coach of Chicago. You are hearing from me a person that was very frustrated last year on Pokey's offensive schemes last year and previous years.
There is no doubt that Pokey was an X's and O's coach. She wanted specific plays run on offense. History has shown that has not worked. I personally like EDD's philosophy that what is most important is first you have a team with a strong bond and close team chemistry. Those two issues are more important than to force an offense to play X's and O's.
I am shocked Chicago would hire a coach with no head coaching experience and I would feel the same way if it was EDD.
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Jet Jaguar
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Posted: 12/10/16 11:05 am ::: |
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I wasn't suggesting that you thought EDD should be the coach.
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Posted: 12/10/16 1:22 pm ::: |
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Wow! Turning over a contending professional basketball team with one of the best players in the world to a person with no head coaching experience. Must have been a hotly contested job... |
So you think a retread would have been a better choice
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Posted: 12/10/16 1:42 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
RavenDog wrote: |
Wow! Turning over a contending professional basketball team with one of the best players in the world to a person with no head coaching experience. Must have been a hotly contested job... |
So you think a retread would have been a better choice |
That seemed to be what you were thinking.
http://boards.rebkell.net/viewtopic.php?t=89641&start=2
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pilight
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Posted: 12/10/16 1:44 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
RavenDog wrote: |
Wow! Turning over a contending professional basketball team with one of the best players in the world to a person with no head coaching experience. Must have been a hotly contested job... |
So you think a retread would have been a better choice |
That seemed to be what you were thinking.
http://boards.rebkell.net/viewtopic.php?t=89641&start=2 |
I thought they would go that way.
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Michelle89
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Posted: 12/12/16 9:24 am ::: |
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I dont get the X s and O s comment tbh. 90% of the time that EDD had the ball they didnt run a play at all.. It was iso ball for EDD all the way or a simple pick &roll with Faulkner and run that over and over.
They played some nice setplays when EDD was injured and got everyone involved. But to me it looked like Pokey just couldnt mix that with involving EDD or Fowles in the previous years for that matter.
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UofDel_Alum
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Posted: 12/13/16 4:13 pm ::: |
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I am counting on you pilight to find out who the other eleven candidates were!!!
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sigur3
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Posted: 12/13/16 7:52 pm ::: |
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But Stocks landed at the top of the heap following an extensive search process that included 15-20 candidates. |
I'm suuuuuure
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UofDel_Alum
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Posted: 12/13/16 8:22 pm ::: |
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sigur3 wrote: |
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But Stocks landed at the top of the heap following an extensive search process that included 15-20 candidates. |
I'm suuuuuure |
I want their names.
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pilight
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Posted: 12/13/16 11:24 pm ::: |
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Is it me or is that a very odd article? They interviewed 15-20 (inquiring minds definitely would love to know who!!). She was on the bottom of the owner's list yet she ended up on the top, got the job ANDDD the GM position. What on earth? |
She was on the bottom of the list at the start of the process. She must have interviewed very well.
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Posted: 12/13/16 11:31 pm ::: |
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I have to wonder if people turned down the job before they got to her
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Posted: 12/14/16 12:07 am ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
WfanFrJmp wrote: |
Is it me or is that a very odd article? They interviewed 15-20 (inquiring minds definitely would love to know who!!). She was on the bottom of the owner's list yet she ended up on the top, got the job ANDDD the GM position. What on earth? |
She was on the bottom of the list at the start of the process. She must have interviewed very well. |
Or people ahead of her said, "aw, hell naw".
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Jet Jaguar
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UofDel_Alum
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Posted: 12/14/16 7:50 am ::: |
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http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161104/sports/161109312/
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I've always considered Chatman to be a popular coach with her players, a cool customer who doesn't over-manage or run a "my way-or-the-highway" operation. The respect she gave players was reciprocated.
But behind closed doors … who knows? Were the players unhappy? Was management?
More important, was Delle Donne unhappy? From the outside, it didn't seem like it. But anything is possible. And as the face of the franchise, Delle Donne certainly would have Alter's ear and devotion. |
This was a quote from Patricia Babcock-McGraw. Seems she thinks EDD had a hand in the firing of Pokey Chateman.
Personally for me, that would be a surprise and I cannot believe that it is true.
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Michelle89
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Posted: 12/14/16 9:31 am ::: |
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I doubt it
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