People get hired for jobs based on their credentials, pedigree etc. I would have a problem with Whisenant because he is a WNBA coach and has no NBA experience. This is really bad if they hire Whisenant even with 100% of Geoff Petrie’s approval.

I just don’t understand why you would consider John Whisenant as a full time head coach.

I want to point something out John Whisenant’s defensive schemes could be hard for NBA players to buy into for a full 48 minutes a night and on a 82 game season. What they do is they put lots of pressure on the ball for like 3/4 courts and force turnovers and get out on the break. The Whisenant system often yields high FG% but fewer possessions so the pace of the game is slower. Offensive rebounding is major hallmark of Whisenant’s teams.

The Whizzenator as the Answer? Who are the Maloof’s kidding? Themselves, I guess. Is Whiz better than the rest of the candidates available?

If you argue the HC’s salary is an issue, how many less tick’s will be sold when Whiz’s name is introduced, instead of Flip’s? Or L Frank’s? Or E Jordan’s?

Use Whiz as a place setting because the team will stink next year, too? Are you certain they will stink? Would they stink because of Whiz? How much respect will he command from the team (start all the Monarch jokes…)? The Kings don’t need someone to warm a spot. They need to find The Answer (not Iverson)!

The thought that Coachie would babysit Whiz is ludicrous. No offense, and I absolutely love Coachie, but his days of active day to day involvement are long past. An advisor/consultant postion is perfect, but holding the bag for the Whizzenator is not gonna happen.

When did GP become The Wimp? Stand up to the bros’ and insist you hire your own guy or you get outta town. I know that’s not his style, and I would hate to see GP go, but if Joe and Gavin want to ruin the team by meddling too much, then every man for themself…

I have a rule, you can’t be coach unless you have a reasonable shot of being able to beat up one player on the team…or at least one announcer…sorry Jerry.
I need to go rinse and spit.

you make a great point about not disqualifying him because he coaches women’s ball because that would be incredibly sexist. I agree completely. We shouldn’t view him in a negative light because of this. However, it is incredibly likely that the players will have much less respect for him because of this. Maybe our players are better than this, but its strongly possible that they’ll just look at him as the girls’ coach

Cheese

It make no sense on any level of the Alpha to the Omega of the basketball spectrum. When things were going well with the Kings, the Maloof brothers could dick around to their hearts content because the seats were full and all the numbers in the annual report were all printed in black. Now, hemorrhaging cash, forced to borrow money from the league and fly commercial (and which do you think hurts more?), their backs against the wall with this team and this city, our franchise a national joke if they are seriously considering John Whisenant as head coach they will have abdicated the roles as businessmen and indulged their egos as dilettantes.

I am not a sexist. Or at least that is what that dumb bitch of a wife tells me. But lets be serious. There are 100 candidates that can be named off the top of your head that are more qualified to head coach an NBA Basketball team. So is it a matter of pride or price? How much is Eddie Jordan going to cost? Probably a lot less than all the empty seats in the Arena if the MaGoofs make the Monumental mistake of hiring Wiznutz. The MaGoofs just don’t know basketball, plain and simple. There has been too much evidence that has been compiled over the last +/- 15 years to suggest that the Magoofs REALLY dont know anything about NBA Basketball accept that they are passionate about it, and they own a team. Other than that, they should leave ALL Basketball decisions to Petrie. Petrie hasn’t done a stellar job as of late, but I would trust Petrie over any of the Magoof CLAN in a heartbeat when it comes to basketball decisions. If the Kings go with WISNUTZ, then the Magoofs will have made their absolutely worst decision since they decided that Rick Adelman wasn’t a good coach (HOF coach 5 years after he retires) If the Kings do NOT bring in a quality NBA coach with head coaching experience in the NBA, then the draft pick is meaningless. Meaningless because the team will regress no matter who they pick. The Kings need to go to an Eddie Jordan or a Flip Saunders and get a coach that can motivate and teach a young team. WIZNUTZ will be ignored from day ONE because he has NEVER been there and it just wont fly with the Kings Players, the Fans, The local Media, and the National Media. This STUPID IDEA NEEDS TO GO AWAY !! It needs to GO THE F%$K AWAY !!! Do you hear that MAGOOFS?? If you hire WIZNUTZ, then please move the team too so we dont have to watch it degenerate any further. WIZNUTZ has no NBA COACING EXPERIENCE, and no HC experience apart from coaching a girl team somewhere (does WNBA still even exist? That money loser league should have folded already…) OK, that sounded sexist… but really, are we as fans expected to just take this? Are we expected to just let WIZNUTZ get a pass and do a worst job than the other Magoof Hires like Mussleman (drunk driver) or Theus (hollywood hype)?? I’ll quit watching. I’ll quit going to the few games I go to now. If the KINGS do NOT follow the proper script and 1) Draft Blake Griffin with the #1 if they get it. #2, Get a real NBA Qualified Head Coach with NBA HC Experience, and #3, Use ALL of the cap money they have been hoarding to acquire another piece to make this club viable, I wont be the only fan to say ENOUGH !!!! STAY OUT OF THE DECISION PROCESS MAGOOFS !!! WIZNUTZ IT NOT COMPETENT AND YOUR LAST 2 CHOICES WERE LAME. LET PETRIE MAKE THE DECISIONS THAT IS WHAT YOU PAY HIM FOR !! LET GEOFF MAKE THE BASKETBALL DECISIONS BECAUSE YOU HAVE PROVEN THAT YOU CANT. PONY UP THE MONEY FOR A REAL NBA COACH AND QUIT TREATING THE FANS LIKE FOOLS. AND LASTLY, WIZNUTZ WILL NEVER BE A GOOD HEAD COACH ANYWHERE BUT THE WNBA AND MAYBE A TRANSGENDER TEAM IN EUROPE!! QUIT TRYING TO HIRE HIM FOR PEANUTS JUST TO EMPLOY AN OLD FAMILY FRIEND!!!

I’m a 6ers fan (please don’t hold that against me even if you do care). There is no better basketball mind in the world than Mr. Petrie. He, in fact, isn’t perfect but who is? The fact is he has always drafted well and, comparitively, not wasted money has made these other GM’s look pedestrian.

The KIngs NEED Ricky Rubio. He’s the best talent in the draft this summer and, fortunately, not as hyped as Mr. Griffin. Mr. Griffin will be a great addition to any team, but name me one team that didn’t have an elite PG/“facilitator” (take that, KIngs fans!) to win a title in the last ten years and I’ll award you a delicious cookie. In this era (where hand-checks are called immediately and guard-play dictates everything), a superb talent at the 1 will make the climb up the ladder even more rapid than the drastic slide down it. Kevin Martin is one of the better 2’s in the game. Surround that guard attack with the ever-burgeoning games of Spencer Hawes and Jason Thompson and add one of the better swing-guards OFF THE BENCH in Francisco Garcia and they are a defensive-minded presence on the block and Donte Greene being halfway decent away from being a 40-win team in the tough West.

All this with an enviable cap position, a young core and a choice of coaches after this season and you’re looking at a very bright future. The one thing that no one should ever do is bank on Mr. Petrie being wrong. Chances are, he isn’t.