Tell Me About Del Harris, Bernie Bickerstaff and Bob Ociepka

I can’t see him coaching this team.

He had a good stint with the sonics in the late 80’s. He may have just gotten lucky, but he got good production out of a team that was not expected to do much.

I would love to see the Bulls go after Tyrone Corbin hard in the offseason. If he were the coach laying in wait, I would be extatic. Doubt he leaves Utah for anything less than a head coaching gig though :(

I think Vinny’s here at least through next season….regardless if he’s perfect, which he ain’t. We’ve got him on contract for 2 more years….and he’s had success, whether we like it or not this year.

I think he’s a good manager—gets the team to play together well and even when we’ve hit the many pitfalls he’s kept us playing hard—but I also think he has a ways to go to solve all the X’s and O’s.

I wish we had more time with Tyrus’s extension coming on, and Rose being so young….because I do think down the line Vinny will be a solid coach.

But it’s ridiculous with the young talent with big upsides we have to have a rookie learning on the job…..

Oh well. I’m forever conflicted.

I do think Harris (the offensive coach) has done much better than Bickerstaff this year in terms of assistant coaching from what I see….I mean yesterday was a mess, but our offense has been much ebtter than it was in years past and has improved—more than folks on BaB want to think….but I agree he’s too old to be a head coach.

Bickerstaff too….I thought our Defense was atrocious forever….and while we’ve finally shown Rose some tactics, it’s taken forever to do so, and hell VDN might be doing some of that hear having played under Pop like he did….

I think again ideally we’d have JVG as our coach now that the to me perfect for our talent D’Antoni deal was Reinsdorfed….

But seeing as neither of those are going to happen….and with the 2010 year coming up. I think Vinny will get at least all of next year before a decision is made.

So I’m just learning to live with it and focus on the positives from Vinny…..and much as the mistakes are often glaring, there have been positives. This team has continued to play hard through every last one of these incredibly frustrating blunders/blowouts or losing streaks….and that’s a big testament to the coach. This team was a complete mess last year, and that hasn’t been the case at all this year….at least we’re being talked about mroe for on the court than off the court stuff…..and the integration of teh team with the late season trade that was a hefty trade with a lot of new minutes….and Luol’s injury, we’ve done fairly well….

I hope now we can regroup and play our game on Sunday.

even the good points on Vinny seem like either accidents or his hand was forced. Like playing Tyrus we had a bunch of injuries when he decided to play our best players.
Then you got Pax telling him to play Rose in the 4th indirectly. Its pretty sad.

If we can fire Vinny before the all star break. I’d like our chances getting a top 4 seed depending on the coach.

they’re terrible and they’ve been a huge disappointment to the entire organization this year. They have not only not helped VDN, but they’ve impeded his growth. (Now we can debate whether a rookie coach should even be coaching in the NBA- I personally think it’s a joke to put someone with no sideline experience in charge of a team. But, given the fact that he’s in the position, the best thing that can happen is that he grows into a great coach.) If they’re not ALL gone next year, Bernie and Del are at least. Oh, and Del Harris- the staunch republican from Texas- is highly disliked by most.

And the players really like playing for VDN so I would bet he’ll be back next year, with some new assistants who are younger, energetic, specialize in D, and actually work and pull their weight in practice and game prep.