Coach K sliding door

[bosockboy]

Interesting tweet I came across on how close Coach K came to leaving Duke for the Celtics in 1990. Fascinating to wonder how our 90s go if that happened. He would’ve lost Reggie 3 years later, Pitino era never happens, lot to chew on. And Duke hadn’t won a championship yet with him.

View: https://twitter.com/nbacobwebs/status/1534564085626437632?s=21&t=jtDqbu69yvs2QKlyegB96Q

 

[reggiecleveland]

Obviously, he wouldn't have been as bad as Pitino. He has been a coach that has adjusted and changed with the times. He is a very smart, driven guy, so he may have been a really good NBA coach. But, he has been on record saying he would not be good in the NBA and he is far more authoritarian than his good guy public image.

 

[cornwalls@6]

Would he have been working for Gavitt? I can't imagine that room being big enough to hold 2 type A guys like that.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

Interesting tweet I came across on how close Coach K came to leaving Duke for the Celtics in 1990. Fascinating to wonder how our 90s go if that happened. He would’ve lost Reggie 3 years later, Pitino era never happens, lot to chew on. And Duke hadn’t won a championship yet with him.

View: https://twitter.com/nbacobwebs/status/1534564085626437632?s=21&t=jtDqbu69yvs2QKlyegB96Q

For what it’s worth I brought this up to a friend of mine after I moved down there in the mid-90’s. He worked in Duke’s administration and gave me one of those looks like I was crazy while assuring me that Coach was never leaving Duke.

It sounds like a common negotiating tool that Cooley used at PC to get a couple extensions to make him one of the Top-20 highest paid cosches in the college game.

 

[Humphrey]

Given that I found an article dated 5/31/1990 that Gavitt was moving on to run the Celtics, then, yes, I'd have to assume Coach K was his choice with Red's blessing. Red was still president until Pitino* demanded the position, right?

* Pitino then fired EVERYONE. The PA announcer, the guys holding up the "P1/T1" signs, everyone. Most importantly, the only guy (Volk) that had any clue about how the salary cap worked.

 

[Was (Not Wasdin)]

I remember when Pistons Coach Chuck Daly said this about Coach K joining the C's.

A decade ago, when the Celtics tried to hire Duke coach Mike
Krzyzewski, Pistons coach Chuck Daly was asked if the adjustment
from college to pro coaching was a significant one. Daly
answered, "My trainer, Mike Abdenour, knows more about the NBA
right now than Mike Krzyzewski does."

A couple of years later K was an assistant with Daly coaching the Dream Team, and eventually took over Team USA, so he clearly put in the effort needed to deal with the pros.

 

[Van Everyman]

Given that I found an article dated 5/31/1990 that Gavitt was moving on to run the Celtics, then, yes, I'd have to assume Coach K was his choice with Red's blessing. Red was still president until Pitino* demanded the position, right?

* Pitino then fired EVERYONE. The PA announcer, the guys holding up the "P1/T1" signs, everyone. Most importantly, the only guy (Volk) that had any clue about how the salary cap worked.

The Losing Time show on HBO about this era starring Pacino as Pitino would've been great, too.

 

[m0ckduck]

The Losing Time show on HBO about this era starring Pacino as Pitino would've been great, too.

Excellent. I’d go with Joe Pesci here, but either works.

 

[Eddie Jurak]

Excellent. I’d go with Joe Pesci here, but either works.

I'm here for a Pesci version of the "not walking through that door" rant.

 

[Cellar-Door]

He would have walked away or been fired in like 2 years. There's a huge difference between "coaching" superstars in the Olympics and being an NBA head coach without any real weight (he didn't have a rep then), just seeing how he handled one and dones and NIL even with his huge profile tells me he would have crashed out quick.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Given that I found an article dated 5/31/1990 that Gavitt was moving on to run the Celtics, then, yes, I'd have to assume Coach K was his choice with Red's blessing. Red was still president until Pitino* demanded the position, right?

* Pitino then fired EVERYONE. The PA announcer, the guys holding up the "P1/T1" signs, everyone. Most importantly, the only guy (Volk) that had any clue about how the salary cap worked.

Some of the scoring crew guys are still there. They weren't fired. And the PA guy (Andy) didn't leave until 1997. They don't use those P1/T1 signs anymore. I saw a couple of them about 10-15 years ago, long after they were discontinued

 

[Bozo Texino]

Given that I found an article dated 5/31/1990 that Gavitt was moving on to run the Celtics, then, yes, I'd have to assume Coach K was his choice with Red's blessing. Red was still president until Pitino* demanded the position, right?

* Pitino then fired EVERYONE. The PA announcer, the guys holding up the "P1/T1" signs, everyone. Most importantly, the only guy (Volk) that had any clue about how the salary cap worked.

He did fire Dave Kerpen, though.

So he wasn't all bad.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

He did fire Dave Kerpen, though.

So he wasn't all bad.

Dave's done alright for himself

 

[Humphrey]

Perhaps Wikipedia is not accurate, however it sez Jick was jettisoned Oct 4, 1997; according to Steve Bulpett. That was Pitino's first season.

Bottom line is not the date anyway; Jick was IMHO good at his job and he was dumped "just because".

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

You may be right about Andy, but the scoring crew remained intact

 

[The Social Chair]

The 91 and 92 teams were contenders when healthy. I don't think it was coaching that stopped their success. Reggie made a leap in the 92 playoffs but Bird was basically useless.

 

[mauidano]

Pitino never would "be walking through that door" would have been cool. We never would have heard that stupid rant.

 

[Jimbodandy]

Pitino never would "be walking through that door" would have been cool. We never would have heard that stupid rant.

Having someone else do the 2001 draft is worth the tradeoff. Like anyone besides him and Wallace. Still eats at me.

 

[Humphrey]

Having someone else do the 2001 draft is worth the tradeoff. Like anyone besides him and Wallace. Still eats at me.

You mean you'd rather have had Gilbert Arenas or Tony Parker instead of Joseph Forte? Or a good half dozen 10+ year NBA frontcourt people in lieu of Kedrick Brown?