No like the no 1 overall bust pick, he goes by Tony now

Winning 20 Grammys just to be called lounge singer

From beyond the grave.

It’s just a way for the players to meet Lady Gaga

Should’ve joined the Warriors cause now he’s leaving his heart in San Francisco

People don’t appreciate a good crooner anymore.

Anyone besides Pelinka is worth a shot

To be fair he was great at developing talent. There is a low key decent number of UVA alums in the league or were under CTB:

• D. Hunter
• T. Jerome
• T. Murphy III
• A. Gill
• M. Brogdan
• J. Huff
• M. Scott (years ago)
• J. Harris
• S. Hauser

Plus other small role players R. Beekman K. Guy B. Key R. Dunn

Edit: He also coached Klay Thompson when he coached at WSU.

Basketball fans really don’t know Tony Bennett? He won a natty not that long ago

Congrats, you’re now qualified to be on r/nbatalk

The right approach would be, I hate the Lakers so whatever they dont impress me at all

It says Cavaliers right in the article where have you been

It’s a conditional phase out. Jeanie and co won’t be “fired”. It’s however long Jeanie negotiated her exit from the team and whatever other provisions for her allies.

It’s already over, they just don’t know it yet. 

Jeanie actually has some solid power still given that it’s in her contract to be governor for five years as well as still owning enough to maintain that position.

Rob is fried.

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

Jhs was a horrible pick but the knecht pick was a good one that just didn’t work out

His WSU team that lost against psycho T and Ty Lawson in sweet 16 is forever in my heart. He found so many surprising players that looked like civil engineers. 

Thats Tom Jones

Yikes

My grandma’s got an album of his

Former NBA player who then coached Virginia to a National Championship and had about 20 former players play in the NBA seems pretty good

Brilliant basketball mind, he turned a perennially mid program into a national powerhouse while getting complete no-name recruits for the most part.

Yes, he’s very smart. Just don’t ask the Lakers to play the way he coached his teams.

If the portal and NIL never became a thing he’d still be coaching college.

Tony is a legendary coach, but imo was getting left behind by modern basketball in his last few seasons at Virginia. But obviously still a smart, charismatic guy, who produced tons of overachieving NBA-level players, far above what Virginia was producing before he got there. Good guy to have in the room.

As the coach of UVA he employed the “milk the clock and play physical defense” strategy.  Really slow and boring.  In 2018 his team was the first ever 1 seed to lose to a 16 seed.  In 2019 he won the NCAA Championship. 

As a fan of an ACC team, it was my least favorite games on the schedule. The score was always super low, and it felt like we got fouled every possession.

First ever 1 seed to lose to a 16 seed.

Won a NCAA Championship the next year.

If he wanted coaching he would have started as an assistant, some team would hire him, not a “draft advisor”

This is just a part time job

My guess is that if a pro front office tries out for pro coaching, he would join a staff if he was interested in coaching. He might be interested in a front office future like Brad Stevens.

I really doubt his coaching style would work in the NBA and I think he knows that too. He was very much a college coach, down to basing his coaching around teaching his players on personality and mentality.

I also think his number of FRP picks doesn’t really matter, that wasn’t the kind of guy he was usually going for at Virginia. He was a really good evaluator in the way he found guys that fit his system, that’s useful for advising an NBA team on who to draft.

Bennett routinely got guys who were ²⁄₃ stars out of high school and developed them into very solid NBA players. He can 1000% identify and develop talent

I feel like the lakers haven’t hit on a draft since mitch, Ryan west, and the younger buss brothers left or were phased out

first thing this ownership did when they bought the dodgers was overhaul the minor league system. its not just beneficial for asset management/player development but you also install team culture ™ and values this way.

It seems like Walters current strategy is just spamming Pelinka with a bunch of “advisors”. Just the other day I saw some report that he’s staying but will be advised by Friedman. He’s still the face but I think he’s losing power

this is a strange crossover for me as well as a UVA alum and Laker fan, honestly great. Tony had an excellent reputation for player development, I don’t know another major school that routinely developed 3* and 4* players into NBA talent. I always wished the Lakers would take a late first 1st or 2nd round flyer at whomever was graduating from UVA that year, quite a few of them would have hit.

that won him a nat’l championship

bro just didn’t wanna deal with the transfer portal bc he was still doing crazy numbers from 2014-2021 and the acc back then was much better than it is now

Career 50% from 3 in college at relatively high volume for his time. Also played a few years in the NBA.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/tony-bennett-1.html

He turned unknown 3-stars into top 5 machine teams basically every year in the 2010s, not a bad guy to have evaluating talent. Got plenty of those 3-stars to the league as well.

NIL era plus a stubbornness around adapting his offense eventually led to his downfall as an elite coach though.