OkExchange7229

179 | 16 hours ago

Theyre gonna take Keefe out back if the team starts out slow

DollarLate_DayShort | WAS

32 | 14 hours ago

Ehhhh… Charles Lee started 4-14 but Charlotte still finished with 44 wins last season.

We have 3 new starters, and 4 new guys in the rotation who have never played a single minute together. I get it, we live in a microwave society where everyone wants results in 30 seconds, but that’s not how team chemistry works.

Careless-Journalist7 | Wizards

21 | 16 hours ago

Why are we waiting for the season to start??

GriffinQ | WAS

14 | 11 hours ago

Because that’s often the condition of asking a guy to tank and destroy their record as a head coach for multiple years - once the team has a shot at being good, they get an opportunity to prove that they can be too (thus ensuring either continued jobs there or elsewhere).

K_U | Wizards

-1 | 15 hours ago

I agree, should have replaced Keefe after last season. He just isn’t a good coach, need someone better for the pivot from tanking to actually attempting to win games.

happyflappypancakes | Wizards

1 | an hour ago

How anyone can assess a coach during a tanking year is beyond me. Remember thr goal of the season is to lose. The coaches goal is to lose. How, in good faith, can you simultaneously prove yourself a good coach while also trying to lose? You cant. The goals are conflicting.

Rymasq

-4 | 13 hours ago

Seriously, I thought this dude was a lame duck coach. Maybe he ends up good, but nothing he’s done says anything more than being a tanking coach

ShelterSubject3259 | Suns

149 | 16 hours ago

Lining the bench with interims so Keefe never knows who’s up next for his job 💀

Either_Imagination_9 | Knicks

62 | 16 hours ago

EVERYBODYS GOING TO THE WIZARDS

BleakGod | Bullets

14 | 15 hours ago

Finally.

Ajbksfinest | Hawks

35 | 16 hours ago

They’re assembling some of the worst coaches of all time right now

Gamesgtd | Magic

76 | 16 hours ago

Cliff is not a terrible coach. He’s known for getting bad defenders to defend. He got a top 5 defense out of a team with Nikola Vucevic and DJ Augustine starting.

SJCitizen | 76ers

77 | 16 hours ago

Cliff got the MJ-owned Bobcats/Hornets to the playoffs twice. Dude should have a statue looking back.

turnertornado | Hornets

17 | 14 hours ago

And to piggyback what the magic fan said, he turned a bobcats team, whose major addition was Al Jefferson, into a top defensive team lol

daperry4 | Wizards

10 | 15 hours ago

That’s desperately what we need

Venice_The_Menace | Magic

2 | 10 hours ago

he’s the Jeff Fisher of the NBA lol

deemerritt | Hornets

38 | 16 hours ago

Cliff is a good assistant and bad head coach.

tfbillc | Bulls

7 | 15 hours ago

“There was an idea… to bring together a group of remarkably bad coaches, to see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to make it to the play-in that we never could.”

dgvhjiiuyttrrffcvbjj

2 | 11 hours ago

Former head coaches got the job to be head coaches because they were recognized for being great assistant coaches.

HenrikCrown | Pelicans

0 | 16 hours ago

Charlotte Bobcats ah staff

Familiar_Somewhere95

0 | 16 hours ago

lol

Waikuku3

-14 | 16 hours ago

This is the Wizards what do you expect

handgredave | Hornets

35 | 15 hours ago

Steve clifford jump scare

Venice_The_Menace | Magic

2 | 10 hours ago

literally shaking

RobbobertoBuii | Knicks

16 | 15 hours ago

Bobcats pipeline lol

Proxx99 | Hornets

13 | 15 hours ago

Wasn’t the best head coach for us but he is a great man, and extremely smart.

Suavesky

9 | 13 hours ago

What are you talking about? He was absolutely a great coach he got us to the playoffs twice.

Proxx99 | Hornets

0 | 5 hours ago

Yes he did coach two playoff teams - but ⁵⁄₇ seasons he was our head coach we didn’t break 40 wins. ³⁄₅ of those we didn’t break 35 wins and ²⁄₃ of those we didn’t break 30 wins. Look I love Steve, like really I do - I have met him, he’s the man, I would gladly have him rejoin our coaching staff and I really don’t blame anyone for wanting to hire him as their head coach - but he just wasn’t a great head coach for us. We had largely atrocious rosters for many of those seasons, granted - but he wasn’t adaptive in the later seasons during his first stretch with us, and insisted on a defensive scheme we didn’t have the personnel to effectively execute.

I can hardly blame him, and in terms of Charlotte coaches there hasn’t really been a lot of greatness period - but let’s not pretend he was amazing. Not to mention, those playoff teams he led didnt exactly do anything in the playoffs.

MembershipSingle7137 | Celtics

3 | 16 hours ago

This one I don’t understand lol what did he ever do in Charlotte

sodaG123 | Suns

30 | 16 hours ago

What has anybody done there to be fair.

YizWasHere | Hornets

19 | 16 hours ago

He was on SVG’s staff when they went to the Finals in ‘09, was also on JVG’s staff in Houston. He knows ball even if he’s not good as a head coach, it’s just an advisory role lol.

DollarLate_DayShort | WAS

10 | 14 hours ago

Ewing was also on that ‘09 Magic staff.

Edit: Holy shit, just realized that Pat was also with the Bobcats-Hornets while Clifford was there, I’m guessing there’s some chemistry there between the two

YizWasHere | Hornets

4 | 14 hours ago

Yeah Clifford and Pat are pretty close lol, Cliff was always a big advocate for him getting a chance as a head coach.

spotty15 | CHA

21 | 16 hours ago

His first run in Charlotte was really good.

The second one…. Not as good, but it wasn’t hella terrible considering the context and how hurt we were. Just pretty “meh”.

Overall he’s a solid and pretty inoffensive coach. He’ll be a good voice to have on the bench.

deemerritt | Hornets

12 | 16 hours ago

Those rosters were miserable

masterassblaster31 | Hornets

12 | 15 hours ago

What? Lamelo obviously should have dragged Daquan Jeffries and co. to the the ECF while shooting 9 shots a game!

ShelterSubject3259 | Suns

9 | 16 hours ago

He watched early-20s LaMelo Ball play basketball for multiple years, day after day, without committing a felony (that we know of)

TheJungleJim | Hornets

6 | 15 hours ago

Stephen Silas welcome to the Washington Wizards

anonymousetache

6 | 15 hours ago

Lebron is going to the wizards (like Jordan) and transitioning to a career in politics. It is written

Impressive_Chard7943

7 | 15 hours ago

Seat is getting VERY lukewarm for Brian Queef

BetweenTheBuzzAndMe | Charlotte Bobcats

1 | 16 hours ago

Sorry, how? lol

Clifford’s defensive scheme has been completely irrelevant since teams realized they can shoot 3s.

dgvhjiiuyttrrffcvbjj

3 | 11 hours ago

he advised the suns last season. their entire identity was built around scrappy defense.

Dymatizeee | Knicks

2 | 16 hours ago

Hornets bball terroist

SlightCartoonist8144

3 | 10 hours ago

Bron is next. Wizards loading up for their pitch

Nice_Fish6500

2 | 12 hours ago

the Ewing-Clifford connection is deeper than people realize. they were assistants together in Orlando under SVG, then Ewing followed Clifford to Charlotte and spent 4 years as his lead assistant. cool to see them both landing in DC on the same staff

dgvhjiiuyttrrffcvbjj

2 | 11 hours ago

i want Sarr tied to Pat’s hip ²⁴⁄₇.

Routine_Inspector845

2 | 14 hours ago

This is a guy who actually knows how to coach

Alexcox95 | Heat

1 | 13 hours ago

Last time a former coach joined a team as an advisor he ended up as the head coach less than half a year later.

dgvhjiiuyttrrffcvbjj

2 | 11 hours ago

he was an adviser to the suns last season, so no.

Prankstaboy6 | Heat

1 | 13 hours ago

Steve Clifford.

Now that’s a name I have not heard in a long time.

smalls_1804 | Knicks

1 | 7 hours ago

Charlotte North

Some-Ear8984

1 | 4 hours ago

Have any assistant coaches from last year been replaced or did we have 2 extra chairs?

Makaveli84 | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

Wizards upgrading like there is no tomorrow

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0 | 16 hours ago

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Obvious_Parsley3238

1 | 16 hours ago

Different old white guy coach

SaulPepper | Hornets

0 | 13 hours ago

bro why lol Steve’s schemes are out of date back in 2023 and its 2026 now

whatwhatwhatwhat55

-1 | 16 hours ago

Brian Keefe erasure but subtly

WiffyTheSuss | Suns

-1 | 12 hours ago

Suns and Nets, two teams that have been extremely successful and had lots of roster stability and totally smooth sailing

dgvhjiiuyttrrffcvbjj

2 | 11 hours ago

are you implying Clifford had anything to do with how poorly those franchises have been run?

WiffyTheSuss | Suns

1 | 8 hours ago

It was actually all Steve Clifford’s fault for both franchises

[Charania] Longtime NBA coach Steve Clifford is also joining the Wizards as a coaching advisor, sources tell ESPN. Clifford has held similar advisor roles for the Suns and Nets in recent years.