According to two sources with knowledge of the situation, neither [Kurt] Rambis nor his representative has negotiated potential terms of an offer. And while the Kings appear poised to do so, those potential discussions might not occur until the series against Orlando ends. In the interim, fellow candidates Paul Westphal (former Phoenix and Seattle head coach) and Tom Thibodeau (Boston associate head coach) might be brought in for a second interview.
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It really sounds like their weighing
each of these options very seriously.
Father of the "Natt this!" movement.
If reports of Westphal's
handshake agreement are true, I wonder how much he likes sitting on the back burner while the Kings…. do nothing.
Teh Dego Dagger
No reason to really worry about it
He’s a calm patient man. Sound like anybody we know?
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Their interview must have been the longest, slowest conversation anybody's ever had
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LOl
I want another Community Draft Board. That’s the only positive I have right now.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Lazy?
I just think we’ll be light on votes. I don’t want to disenfranchise those people who (unlike us) have lives!
Just admit you don't want to go out cuz it's 100+ out there right now
And you’re happy to sit inside with that AC cranked up. (Right now it’s overcast up here. LOL)
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Dude
I just went biking for six hours around sacramento and it doesn’t feel close to 100.
"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer." - Julian Casablancas
Probably not
In my old Zip code, it’s currently 75. (I used to live in Midtown.)
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Cool
That will give me time to get me Johnson posters up.
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Argh
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
You know it ed
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Sam mentions it in the article
There is also the question of Westphal’s patience, as he was interviewed May 13 and clearly could have been hired by now if he was the team’s top choice.
That would certainly suck. You interviewed almost a month ago, the Kings shared glowing reviews with the media, and now you sit around and hear nothing.
Never forget: I am a complete idiot
Agreed
But if you’re unemployed, you deal with it.
This may be the only place where the supply outweighs the Kings’ demand. I’m OK with the time that this is taking.
And 1 perhaps very stupid point – Given the economic situation that the Kings are in, every week without a head coach is a week that they are not paying a head coach. Now, I realize that the contract will be the contract, regardless of when the coach is hired. But they don’t have to start writing checks until they have hired him. Perhaps that is a small, small factor here.
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Westphal is currently employed by the Dallas Mavericks.
"Or, as Randy Jackson would say: Not feelin’ it, dawg."
-bench-blob- posting virgin.
Yeah
He can live with it.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Correction
“But if you’re unemployed, you deal with it.”
Westphal is not unemployed.
I too wonder about his patience. Its one thing to be patient when management is trying to come to a very important decision, its another thing to be patient if you think you are just being used as a negotiating ploy with another coach and the team has already decided that they will not be hiring you.
Fair enough
If he is not patient enough to wade through this process, he is not patient enough to coach a rebuilding club coming off of a 17-65 season.
My point is that there are plenty of fish in this sea, and Westphal is no bigger than the other potential catch. This isn’t Phil Jackson that we’re talking about.
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How dare you
Doesn’t accusing Petrie of classlessness get you banned around here?
by AnotherStupidSN on Jun 6, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Nope
Accusing of Petrie not being a great drafter gets you banned. This is my third account already. I need to learn not to mess with the masters of this board
so when you get banned again what little clue are you going to give us so that we'll know it's you?
eduardo_n8? Is that too obvious, would TZ and Section figure it out? Nah!!!
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My point is not about patience
My point is
“its another thing to be patient if you think you are just being used as a negotiating ploy with another coach and the team has already decided that they will not be hiring you”
Nor would I accuse Petrie of anything. From what I know of him he is an upstanding guy. For all we know he may have already told Westphal that Rambis is their guy if they can get him for a price they are willing to pay.
I think your second point is half right
I’m sure there’s plenty of behind the scenes stuff that we don’t know about. It’s very possible that Petrie’s been in contact with Thib and/or Westphal after their interviews and has explained to them that he’s taking his team because he needs to right coach to lead and rebuild this team. Hell, that was probably one of the big points during the interview. Petrie and the Maloofs know they need to pick the absolute right coach for this franchise and part of that involves being patient and understanding the process. Even if Westphal thinks he’s being used as a negotiating ploy he still needs to wait and show that he wants to be coach.
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I think this is a reply to vfettke's post, not the original post.
Need to learn to use the
[+] reply
button.
It will nest your answer neatly under and to the right of the post you are responding to.
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by Kfan in Korea on Jun 6, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I approve of your constant correcting people
:)
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
constantly schooling folks in how this place works^
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Kfan is the Ettore Messina of STR
developing the young posters to be better.
Father of the "Natt this!" movement.
by Aykis16 on Jun 6, 2009 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
LOL
Good call!
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
That's racist
Besides Koreans pronounce it more like Ingleeshe.
Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott
by Kfan in Korea on Jun 7, 2009 6:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Patience
Petrie is notorious for sitting on his hands before making any decisions. It takes that guy an hour to decide which sock to put on first every morning. It might be December before we get a new coach.
by Carl on Jun 6, 2009 1:57 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
LOL
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Petrie comes up with the ultimate money saving maneuver
and simply lets the players coach themselves. Kings go to an 82 – 0 record since the other team doesn’t know how to counteract “no plays”
Father of the "Natt this!" movement.
Ummm
Teams followed the “Kenny Natt experience” closely to monitor, however unlikely, this possibility. I wouldn’t rule it out, but I don’t think the Kings are likely to do as well.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
He does that now
Or do you not watch the games?
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Yeah
but it ends always by giving the ball to himself (and possibily traveling).
Anyway, wasn’t the “no plays” phylosophy giving us a 17-65 record?
"Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game." — Michael Jordan
Go Kings!
I think you missed that I was being sarcastic Panzer
Which is quite alright. It’s not always obvious.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I was too ^^
"Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game." — Michael Jordan
Go Kings!
Of course
My apologies, sir.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Talking about Beno...
I’m curious about what do you (in America) think about Marco Belinelli
"Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game." — Michael Jordan
Go Kings!
I really like Belinelli
most other people aren’t so hot on him though. He needs to use his great ball handling skills to get to the bucket more often instead of settling for a long-range jumper and his defense needs work. Overall, the ability to be a nice player is there, he just needs to take advantage of his abilities.
"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer." - Julian Casablancas
I think Beli has talent
He’s just on the wrong team in the wrong place at the wrong time. Truth be told, I don’t know much about him in his playing abilities (I know he can handle the ball and shoot some), but at the same time, he needs to play more to get a real good feel for him. I just don’t have that feel for him.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Wow...I thought he'd have only negative comments
He has good skills, and can play quite well both 1 & 2. He’s been struggling a lot because of Nelson, and had a little revenge this year when he had the chance to play a little bit more, putting on good games with consistency.
You may call me blindly patriottic, but I’d take him over Beno (as a backup, obviously not as a starter), also thinking he’s way cheaper.
It would be funny to see Beno playing under Donnie, shooting straight from the midcourt line
"Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game." — Michael Jordan
Go Kings!
he is a summer league superstar
regular season he is inconsistent. Of course, with the GSW and Don Nelson, inconsistency is their only consistency.
He reminds me a bit of JJ Redick – he can flat out shoot, but has not yet developed enough other parts of his game to put him on the floor for consistent minutes. He is a role player at best right now.
by betweentheeyes on Jun 7, 2009 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions
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