Help Wanted Ad for Brooklyn Nets’ Open Head-Coaching Position
Help Wanted!
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Position:
Head Coach
Location:
Brooklyn, NY
About our organization:
The Brooklyn Nets are a professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The Nets, founded in 1967, are a member of the NBA’s Atlantic Division. The general manager of the team is Billy King, and the owner is Mikhail Prokhorov.
Core responsibilities:
The new head coach of the Brooklyn Nets will be responsible for creating and maintaining a winning atmosphere, with the ultimate long-term goal of winning an NBA Championship.
The head coach must earn the respect and trust of elite-level veteran players and instill confidence in younger, less experienced players. He must have a consistent approach that the players believe in and buy into. He will need to get the most out of every player on the roster and make each player want to perform his very best on his behalf.
The coach must earn the trust and respect of the general manager and the owner. He must maintain an open dialogue with both and share the same vision and goals for the franchise.
Above all else, the coach must instill mental and physical toughness in the team. He must hold players accountable for their performance and not allow them to become complacent. He will need to manage the egos of players who know they’re going to be paid for multiple years, regardless of how they perform on the court.
Individual achievements must take a backseat to the success of the team. The coach needs to make the players understand that their individual statistics mean nothing if the team isn’t winning.
The head coach needs to allocate responsibility to assistant coaches and make sure his voice isn’t the only voice the players hear. He cannot be stubborn and must show the ability to make intelligent and calculated adjustments during games and throughout the season.
The coach needs to display strong leadership and character, especially in the face of adversity. He needs to have his team ready to play night in and night out against a wide variety of competition.
The head coach must work with players individually and make them understand that he’s invested in their improvement.
Our requirements:
- Must be a great motivator and communicator
- Must effectively preach discipline and mental-toughness to create a strong team identity
- Must be a defensive-minded coach
- Must have the ability to manage egos
- Must have thick skin and be able to take criticism from fans and the media
- Must be able to make calculated in-game adjustments
- Must have the team prepared to win every night
- Must develop young talent
- Must intelligently manage the minutes of older players and star players
- Must not be afraid to make personnel adjustments
- Must effectively allocate responsibility to assistant coaches
- Must preach unselfish play on offense
- Must facilitate continuity between core players, bench contributors and incoming free agents and rookies
- Must preach consistency
Expectations for first season:
- Win at least 50 regular-season games
- Earn a top-three spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs
- Win a first-round playoff series
Thank you for your interest in the Brooklyn Nets’ head-coaching position.
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Dirk Nowitzki Reportedly Will Take Huge Pay Cut to Help Mavericks in Offseason
Dirk Nowitzki is ready to do anything necessary to help his team win, including reducing his salary in the offseason.
According to Tim MacMahon of ESPN, the power forward is willing to take a “significant pay cut” in the summer. Nowitzki recently told the media:
At this point of my career, it’s all about competing and winning. It’s not about money. Obviously, Cuban took care of me for a long, long time. I always tried to pay him back by hard playing and being here for this franchise, so I don’t think we’re going to fight over money. I want to compete over these last couple of years. That’s going to be the goal.
The intention is for the team to sign a high-priced free agent along the lines of Dwight Howard or Chris Paul, although it remains to be seen whether there is mutual interest from the superstars.
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Mark Cuban Asks Fans to Help Design Mavericks Uniforms
Mavericks owner and apparent genius, Mark Cuban, recently asked fans to deliver their finely crafted ideas for new uniforms.
It is going as you would expect.
It all starts with a entry from Cuban at Blog Maverick where he asks fans to come up with their best designs for a new jersey that will be worn by the team starting in the 2015-16 season.
Now before you fire up MS Paint or bust out the crayons, there are some important things to note: this is not a contest with a monetary prize and the Mavericks own anything you post to the blog. Per Blog Maverick:
Who will own your design? The minute you post it, the Mavs will. If you think its horrible that the Mavs own your design. Do not post. If you think its cool that the Mavs could possibly use your design and you will have eternal bragging rights, then post away. If we really like your design and you, I may even throw in some tickets. If we don’t use your design, it will still be here on this site for now and ever more for you to glance longingly at. If your design is close, if not identical to other designs and we pick one of the other designs, for whatever reason, then thats just the way it goes.
If we don’t choose any of the designs,including yours.then we don’t choose any of the designs. That is life in the big city. Move on.
The contest of sorts will continue from now until the end of May, so get cracking. As for the early iterations of the Mavs’ new duds, they are as you would expect.
They range from the hilariously horrible to the remarkably refined. Here is just a sample of what is at the comments section of the blog entry.
Here is one special creation I truly hope makes opening night in the league:
We may be able to call off the contest with this one:
One fan was far too ill-equipped to post a picture, so he painted one with words: “I think a logo with a basketball in the background, with a mavericks head over it and the name underneath. I am not sure how to upload a pic on here.”
Here is to hoping pencil drawings get the job done:
It’s still extremely early, but I will assume the entries will get far more insane as the month proceeds.
There are many in the comments section who are incensed that Cuban would try and get anything for free, much less the team’s uniform designs.
Seeing as how he isn’t forcing fans to post their pictures, we will wait patiently until a silly debate dissolves into a massive display of awful MS Paint creations.
Get to work, Mavs fans. You have quite a job ahead of you.
Hit me up on Twitter with your best creations: Follow @gabezal
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3 Ways Amar’e Stoudemire Can Help the New York Knicks in the 2nd Round
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Although Stoudemire’s health will still be a concern, he can still contribute to a New York Knicks team that lacks athleticism and versatility at the power forward position at the moment.
He hasn’t played in over a month, but I will assume that Stoudemire will come back playing at the same level he has been playing when he was healthy during the regular season. This slideshow will evaluate three key areas of the game where Stoudemire’s skills will be needed most.
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NBA Playoffs: How Amar’e Stoudemire Can Help NY Knicks Defeat Indiana Pacers
For the first time in 13 years, the New York Knicks have made it to the second round of the NBA playoffs and are ready for a tough series against the Indiana Pacers.
According to ESPN, Amar’e Stoudemire could return to action in time for Game 3. His return is based on how he performs in midweek scrimmages.
Stoudemire has been out for two months following a right-knee debridement. If Stoudemire can return to form quickly, he can still be a huge difference-maker for the Knicks.
When we last saw Stoudemire in action, he was playing dominant basketball for Mike Woodson. After volunteering to take a lesser role off the bench, Stoudemire played efficiently, averaging 14.2 points on 58 percent shooting from the field. That was good for the second-highest shooting percentage of his entire 11-year NBA career.
Stoudemire gave the Knicks a reliable low-post and pick-and-roll option. Looking at the way he played, it’s hard to take issue with what Stoudemire brought to the table.
Most can accept that Stoudemire was productive in his 29 games this season. The issue that most people have is that the team only went 16-13 in the games he played. The general consensus is that STAT doesn’t fit with the rest of the Knicks roster. People jumped on the chance to blame him for the team’s shortcomings over that stretch.
Truthfully, the Knicks’ .500 stretch had very little to do with Stoudemire. The ball wasn’t moving and the offense was stagnant. That was more to do with injuries than anything else.
Raymond Felton and Jason Kidd both struggled with significant injuries when Stoudemire was in the lineup. Considering how important they are to the offense, it’s not surprising that the team was lost without them.
There was no penetration, shooters weren’t getting good looks and Carmelo Anthony—who played hurt on a number of those nights—had to initiate the offense a lot of the time.
With Felton and Kidd back at full strength, the Knicks went 5-2 in the final games before STAT’s injury, where he played particularly well with three 20-point games over that period.
The only games they lost came against last year’s finalists, the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Unfortunately for Stoudemire, most people forgot about that when he went down. They focused more on the fantastic basketball the Knicks went on to play in his absence.
New York has proven that it’s capable of winning at a high level without Amar’e. That doesn’t mean his return can’t help, especially against a great defensive team like the Pacers.
In the first-round series against the Boston Celtics, the Knicks offense was disappointing. They couldn’t create good outside looks. They struggled when Melo and J.R. Smith didn’t shoot well. Having Stoudemire would have given them a third option to turn to in that situation. His ability to collapse defenses in the pick-and-roll could have created space for shooters.
The Knicks have had a lot of success going with small lineups. But against a big, physical team like the Pacers, they’ll need all the frontcourt help they can get.
Despite the injuries, Stoudemire is still a powerful presence. He can match up offensively with the likes of David West and Roy Hibbert.
Melo has the speed to beat them one-on-one; however, after an injury scare against the Celtics, playing him at the 4 for the entire series would be a risky option. We haven’t seen it very often, but using Anthony as the ball-handler in the pick-and-roll with Amar’e has a lot of potential. Given any space, Melo will sink the mid-range jumper and can find Stoudemire rolling instead if the defense keys on him.
It’s a play that directly utilizes the strengths of both players, one that in year three could make them the dynamic duo we hoped they would be from day one.
Stoudemire is only just returning from injury. The Knicks can’t expect him to start or even play significant minutes. He isn’t going to be a focal point for the Knicks, but off the bench he can add some size and offensive diversity.
Based on how New York and Indiana played each other in the regular season, this is going to be a long, hard-fought series. The games will be tight, and a productive STAT could be the difference for the Knicks.
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James Harden vows to help the Houston Rockets recruit free agents
The Houston Rockets have found the face of their franchise. Despite not being able to take advantage of the weaker-than-usual Oklahoma City Thunder in the playoffs, the Rockets feel that they are a team on the rise.
Last off-season, the initial thought was that Jeremy Lin was imported to Texas to give the Rockets a brand to anchor their logo on.
That did not exactly work out as James Harden rode into town and took over both on and off the court.
Harden’s combo platter of charisma and skill have rendered him a big time player.
As Houston moves on to seek new pieces to their puzzle, Harden says that he is ready to recruit free agents to help their cause.
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