First off Chauncey Billups took awhile to develop. Secondly the list is an announcement of who has power (thankfully petrie thank you thank you thank you god). As i noted in my comments of Chris' diary I'm glad to see ET getting an interview. I would like to see him getting an assistant job under Brooks if that was the case. He's been in the league players respect him (if nothing else) and he knows more than maybe anybody realized. He learned alot from Rick, which of course in my view is always a good thing, and that could help Brooks,or whomever Petrie selects, in the process of developing what could be an interesting team to start the season.

Since my previous comment was relief I guess I'll expand (for the last time) on it.

1. Glad to see there is no retreads, like Carlisle or  JEFF Van Gundy (neither of whom are bad coaches I might add) if only because I think that will not bring the best out of their coaching abilities. Mostly I think they're too locked into the styles they play. I am VERY glad to see Whisenant not getting anything near this interview. I know this will seem odd but I'm also glad Elie isn't either. I just dont have a good feeling , that having championship rings among other things, gives you an in with the players.

2. I hope that by if some chance, Elston Turner doesn't knock the interview outta the park (excuse the baseball cliche), he ends up being a lead assistant. I wonder if this is out of pure loyalty to Rick in some way. Probably not, but you never know. Either way he's the guy I think would be the best candidate for the job.

3. If not ET, I really am warming up to the idea that Scott Brooks could be an excellent candidate. If he is a better candidate than ET, which of course I'm not sure of either way, I'm more than ready to accept he'd be an excellent lead assistant to ET regardless. Usually I think the head coach having the automony to pick their assistants is a good idea but it's very different when you have a veteran bench coach like Rick Adelman doing it.

4. The most interesting part to me is that the entire field, sans Van Gundy, is either a young & up coming coach (like theus) or assistants (or have been). I like that Petrie is looking for a smarter (cheaper?) way to find a head coach. I'm glad that SVG is on the list. He's the only guy on that list with proven abilities as a head man. This seems to be a list of Geoff Petrie's.

5. Petrie's indication of changing coaches when necessary (there have been only 4 up till now and we'll see a year from now on the 5th) I think it stands to reason he'll have a good shot at getting it right. The process is seemingly having a much better feel to it, from my perspective of course, than last year. Even if I admit I didnt pay much attention after Rick got fired, I've just gleamed this from what TZ, Amick, Voisin and Scoop have written since.

6. The great thing about this list: I don't break into hives imagining any of these guys on the Sacramento sideline. That's a good thing.
   
   

Amen.

Am I the only one who hates Brian Shaw here? C'mon SR back me up. I don't care how good of a coach he might be, he is firmly entrenched with the enemy. Remember, Shaw to Shaq for the alley-oop dunk? Remember? He KILLED us.

On a different note, I also am not enamored with Elie and am happy he is not on this list. If you have heard him speak he just isn't articulate enough to make you think he has a whole lot of intelligence, IMHO.