After exploring Popovich's disciples (touching me) and disciples (touching me), we turn to the third possibility—recruiting from the outside.
If, I mean, the disciples and disciples we assumed earlier wouldn't be able to become Spurs coaches after Bobo retires, then management could recruit a head coach from outside.
The current home-saving head coaches are Stan Van Gundy, Mike D'Antoni, Scott Brooks, Dave Fitzdale and Frank Vogel, all of whom have certain abilities.
But you and I both know that the Spurs' genes have always been the most basic in defense, and the above few, if you want to say which one emphasizes defense more in the system, it seems that there is no one.
So, we have reason to believe that the disciplined management will not easily and hastily sign one of the above coaches, and they want to continue the hard-established Spurs culture, rather than create another culture.
So, let's narrow it down and think about Popovich's fans, or coaches who have worked with Popovich.
For example, Quinn Schneider, who recently resigned from the Jazz, and Jay White, who coached with Bobo at the World Championships and the Olympics.
Quinn Schneider
Carefully studied, the head coach who had just resigned was also a figure in the Spurs department.
In 2007, then-Spurs executive RC Buford invited Schneider to coach the Spurs' development league team, the Austin Bulls, and since then Schneider has officially joined the NBA and branded popovich.
He spent three years with the Austin Bulls, going to the Philadelphia 76ers as assistant coach for Doug Collins in 2010-11, Mike Brown to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2011-12 season, to Russia as assistant coach to European coach Etore Messina in the 2012-13 season, and to the Atlanta Hawks as budenholzer's assistant coach in the 2013-14 season.
After four years of honing under a series of Spurs coaches, in June 2014 he waited for the opportunity to personally take charge of the whip, and the management of the Utah Jazz took a fancy to Schneider and made him the team's head coach.
During this period, he was named the coach of the month, the All-Star head coach, and in the eight seasons he coached the Jazz, his record was 372 wins and 264 losses, second only to the legendary Sloan coach.
He said nothing about his reasons for leaving the Jazz, but I guess he was unhappy there. 8 seasons, 6 playoffs, it can be seen that the coach's ability is not bad.
On the offensive end, Schneider combined with the Jazz's lack of good pitchers, emphasizing the operation of a large number of people and the ball, by constantly running to gain offensive space, so that everyone can participate, rather than simply playing superstar basketball.
Defensively, he defends the penalty area with a big man, shoots from opponents, suppresses the opponent's bottom corner three-pointer, and sometimes, he likes to put two big men at the same time.
These concepts are more or less compatible with the current Spurs team, and the Spurs' equipment is not far from the previous Jazz, but the difference is that the Spurs are more united within the Spurs, there is no uncertainty, the players are mainly coaches, plus the addition of his Spurs experience, maybe he will be one of the most suitable candidates.
Jay Wright
Maybe most fans don't know this guy or even the name.
Widely regarded as one of the best coaches in NCAA history, he was the head coach of villanova University Wildcats from 2001-2022, winning two NCAA championships and having a 66.3 percent win rate in 22 seasons in charge, including 69.3 percent at Villanova, better than Popovich's 69.2 percent.
At the last World Basketball Championships and the Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo, he was Popovich's assistant coach, in charge of the team's offense, and he praised Popovich.
"He has a very unique perspective on the game, a very unique perspective on life, and I think that's what makes his team different."
Now that he's retired from his college basketball head coachship, he says he wants to take a break and skip basketball for a while, but he also expressed his desire to coach an NBA team.
"I would love to coach in the NBA, and maybe one day... But not now. ”
With his great achievements in coaching college teams, if he wants to coach in the NBA, there will be many teams that want him, but with popovich and his relationship with the national basketball team, I believe that he has the ability to recruit him to the Spurs.
He said he admired Popovich's strange 0.5-second rule — the ball carrier would lose the lead if he didn't shoot, dribble or pass the ball in 0.5 seconds. In addition, he wants the ball to move and the players to run. He really put these guys accountable for that. ”
The people who came out of his hands, there are Kyle Lori, Sadiq Bay, Bridges, Landifier, these young people have played a lot in the NBA, he has the ability to train young people into NBA stars, I believe he also has the ability to make the Spurs' young people to the next level.
If the Spurs decide to start rebuilding and focus on developing their young players, Wright will be a good choice.
Bill Lambier
This may be a little ridiculous, but let's think about it from another angle, this may be good.
As a player, Lambier was a four-time NBA All-Star, a two-time champion, and one of the toughest defensive players and rebounders of his time. His philosophy is perfect for spurs' current roster, scoring from mid-range, grabbing rebounds and beating each other on both offensive and defensive ends.
But so far, he has had little NBA coaching experience, except for four seasons as an assistant coach for that bad Timberwolves in 2009-12.
So why did the Spurs want him? Well, he won the WNBA Finals in 2003, 2006 and 2008. He reached the WNBA Finals in 2007 and 2020, but lost.
He served as head coach of the Detroit Shock, New York Liberty and Las Vegas Aces, amassing a record of 306-215. Missed just four playoffs in 16 seasons — he's one of the best coaches in WNBA history.
So why didn't he continue to coach the Aces? Because Las Vegas signed Spurs legend - Becky Harmon. Lambier will then stay in the team with "different roles", but that could mean anything is possible.
Perhaps, the Spurs sent Harmon to the ace team, the ace team "peach for money", then Lambier came to the Spurs as the head coach, it will be a wonderful and interesting phenomenon. (End)
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