Rondo said multiple times this year he didn’t want to be a head coach. He was asked regularly while he was consulting for the Bucks.

It’s cause his elimination and firing is still fresh on everyone’s mind lol. Like this mf wasn’t unemployed for even 2 weeks. This hire is solid, he’s a real culture builder. NOLA problem is that they have zero identity and culture.

It’s just recency bias.

It’s a safe hire and idk why people are acting like it’s Doc Rivers.

If it was a skinny analytics nerd that nobody knows, people would probably be saying the same exact shit.

I fail to see what is any different between him and Willie Green.

Ultimately this roster stinks, so it just is what it is. But it is just like needless machinations to end up right back where you started.

People hate it because they lost that series in ugly fashion, but he had a team that was bottom 4 in 3P% on the verge of beating the 1 seed. They were a Franz Wagner injury away from winning a playoff series.

Mosley definitely has his faults, but it’s not his fault that the Magic assembled a roster with very little shooting.

Dudes star player’s nickname is pb no j and people were acting like it’s the coaches fault that that the player can’t hit shots. Like yes, a good coach gets their team more high quality shots, but Banchero isn’t hitting those shots either. And nobody respects his shot enough to sag off him to give him a chance to drive cleanly.

We just spent the last 4 months or so trashing Mosely’s decision making on the Magic. Him refusing to call timeouts whenever the Magic inexplicably gave up a 31-0 run just happened recently.

They improved every year under Willie Green until they didn’t.

Its a good PR line but not anything more than that.

Feels a lot like the Detroit-Bickerstaff hiring. High floor, developmental guy for an organization that has been floundering. He may not make a deep playoff run, but NOLA is just trying to get things going in the right direction for now.

5 years though?

Besides massively underperforming this year and barely making the playoffs in the East.. Also the locker room in Orlando looked shot this season. He did nothing special with a lot of talent and size

Good to get a coach before the draft, but surely they could have spent a bit more time assessing options. I’m sure a promising assistant would be willing to become their coach.

You telling me Frank Vogel wasn’t available lol bully Donovan??

Mosley is fine for coaching them up and developing them, no?

They can get a coach with a higher ceiling later.

Pelicans pick wound up 8th so Dumars is in heat check mode now

Well yeah. Year 1: they sucked. Year 2: ROY Banchero. Year 3: AS Banchero. Year 4: declined. Year 5: Bane trade. Orlando got better 3 out of 4 years, but coaching is not nearly as big of an impact as their roster improving.

Imagine watching that offense and being like yeah we’ll hire that guy.

I think the bigger point of contention, at least this season, is that he just doesn’t command the respect of his players

They scored 19 points in the 2nd half of a close out game at home..

Lmao..

Lmao sorry but this is cope.

They “got better” because their roster improved. Their team consistently underperformed under Mosley compared to their talent.

The same issue the Pels have had for years, because we’ve been spinning the wheels on multiple coaches who had no motion for over a decade now.

Yet another horrendous decision from the Joe Dumbass front office.

Maybe this time, when Wemby’s contract is close to ending, Doc can tell Wemby his wife can’t fly with the team and disappoint Magic fans again.

Billy Donovan

Thibs at home chilling with his son Jimmy Butler thinking … Jamahl Moseley over ME?!

Via the play-ins. A lot of people thought they’d be a top 4 seed this season. I wasn’t one of those people, but there were a lot of them.

To be fair Zion has given up on everything that isn’t deep fried.

I guess Doc Rivers wasn’t calling back

Darvin will be the magics head coach watch

Game 6, when your team is up by 20+ at halftime and lose the game by 14, you should never coach another franchise ever again for that historic meltdown

He is bad. Orlando is stacked with talent and should be so much better than an 8 seed first round exit.

The market is what it is and anything below that signals no confidence. No established coach is taking anything less and I’d guess a lot of top assistants would just wait for a better opportunity

There’s 30 teams and about 35 coaches that keep getting hired. That + others who are waiting for their first chance.

Coaches seem to be fine with waiting until they get hired in the right situation with the right expectations because they hope to be coaching until they’re 70 and need relatively consistent success to do that.

Mohsley probably negotiated a 5 year deal by saying he’d hold out and just wait for another opportunity otherwise.

Well mediocre for the pels would be an improvement ig from this season

Could be worse…. Doc Rivers is currently unemployed

They literally just got done with the “fresh new coach” experiment. It was terrible.

Willie was new in fairness

That worked out well

The Pelicans have never had three winning seasons in a row. If Mosley is able to get 3 45 win seasons out of them, he’s the best damn coach in franchise history.

No seriously, nobody else has more than two, Byron Scott and Monty Williams.

Hey even your local McDonalds is a franchise

I keep being told by reddit that there are only like 5 good NBA coaches that have ever existed ever so at that point just sign whoever and it probably won’t make a difference.

IMO the best move for a team stuck in purgatory like NOLA is to hire a promising young college coach or poach an assistant from another franchise. Hiring a proven mediocre coach or someone that’s lost their magic isn’t all that inspiring, at least in my opinion.

Does he? The Magic played with low effort all season and an “unnamed star” on the team was unhappy with him the entire year. And Pels committed 5 years to that. He seemed high on a list of “never getting a chance again” kind of coach to me.

They have one in borregio.

Stupid franchises just never learn. To think they had hope too with Zion 7 years ago.

That’s the problem. The way it’s going she’s going to sell and the new owner will move the team.

Zion isos back on the menu. But no joke they’ll probably have a much improved defense just because Mose is good at coaching teams that switch

He’s good, he’s definitely not good enough to have traded a 23 and an 8 for.

Is he good though? I’m not super confident in him despite showing some good things as a rookie. I don’t trust him to continue being able to get to his spots once there’s film on him. He’s not strong or athletic or big enough.

I think he could still have a long solid career, but if that ever happens it will be because he found his role as the first or second guy off the bench, not a heavy minute impact starter. Doesn’t play a lick of defense.

Weaver :

74-244 record with the pistons

YOURE HIRED

I don’t think Malone would want to come here and I don’t blame him for it.