Sam Mitchell to interview for coaching vacancy
by YoLeo on Aug 2, 2011 11:42 PM CDT
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PrintThe Wolves are down to the final two names to interview for their head-coaching job.
And, yes, Sam Mitchell is one of them.
Larry Brown, of course, is the other.
Many Wolves fans have wondered why the man who won Coach of the Year with Toronto and who played two different stints with the Timberwolves, first when he was an original Wolf and then when he was brought back in 1995 to help mentor a rookie named Kevin Garnett.
Mitchell is expected to interview Friday or Saturday, Brown next week.
Wolves boss David Kahn and owner Glen Taylor already have interviewed Terry Porter, Mike Woodson, Bernie Bickerstaff, Nelson.
Former Houston coach Rick Adelman has been talked to at some depth about the job, but, unlike the aforementioned four, he didn't come to town for an in-person interview.
Mitchell and Porter are the only ones on that list who have a relationship with Taylor.
Mitchell had a 156-189 record in four-plus seasons with Toronto.
The Raptors went 47-35, won the Atlantic Division and Mitchell was voted Coach of the Year for the 2006-07 season.
His teams made the playoffs twice -- losing in the first round each time -- and he was fired early in the 2008-09 season when the Raptors started 8-9 and then went 25-40 the rest of the way under interim coach Jay Triano.
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Glad to see they're at least interviewing him.
Larry Brown too. It’d be foolish for this team to decline to interview any willing, qualified candidate. Brown seems like an awful fit for this team but an interview can’t hurt.
I've read too many negative things about his coaching
Getting into multiple altercations with his players, not a good X & O guy, not an uptempo guy like Kahn wants.
If we are going to hire a slow-it-down guy, I’d much prefer Woodson.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
And if Glen pressures Kahn to hire Sam
because of his purported friendship with him, then the Wolves will deserve the resulting Ws.
The name of the game is wins, Glen, not who you are buddies with.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on Aug 3, 2011 9:48 AM CDT up reply actions
typo - the results Ls
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on Aug 3, 2011 9:49 AM CDT up reply actions
Typo II
the resulting Ls.
"The journey of 1000 miles has begun. Baby steps...Baby Jesus steps, that is."
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Yes - I decided any further attempts to correct it
would resulting in a never ending stream of typos.
Why we don’t have an edit button I’ll never understand.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on Aug 3, 2011 5:41 PM CDT up reply actions
resulting - sigh - I'm going home
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on Aug 3, 2011 5:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Is english your second language?
grin
"The journey of 1000 miles has begun. Baby steps...Baby Jesus steps, that is."
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Sadly, it only seems that way
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on Aug 4, 2011 8:48 AM CDT up reply actions
If we had an edit button
people could change their arguments after the fact. Think for a while about how that could go. I’d rather live with the typos.
by Madison Dan on Aug 3, 2011 8:13 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
True, but most other places where I post/read do have an edit button
There are two reasons why it doesn’t seem to cause too much trouble:
- They usually put an automatic line like “Edited by Madison Dan at 06:15 08/03/2011” at the bottom, so you know when a comment has been changed
- People often quote parts of the previous message during an argument, so there is a record of the original.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on Aug 4, 2011 8:52 AM CDT up reply actions
Too bad we can't edit some of Kahn's moves
The first move I’d edit would be the drafting of Flynn.
The next edit would be the hiring of Rambust.
Then again, those two moves helped us become the worst team in the league, thereby getting to draft DWill, who hopefully willbecome the next Paul Pierce.
"The journey of 1000 miles has begun. Baby steps...Baby Jesus steps, that is."
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will become
damn edit button
"The journey of 1000 miles has begun. Baby steps...Baby Jesus steps, that is."
http://www.cheap-and-easy-car-insurance.com
Why would someone change their argument?
Do they all of a sudden have an epiphany?
"The journey of 1000 miles has begun. Baby steps...Baby Jesus steps, that is."
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If someone gets caught in dumb point they can't get out of
they could just edit it away. There could also be some Gaslighting — just messing with people by saying A for a while, then editing it to B later on. I guess Wile E.‘s edit notification would help most of that, but I don’t see the occasional typo as being all that bad.
I used to post on this site infested by Packer fans
It’s over at Pioneerpress.com, or twincities.com, and you could edit your message as many times as you want. I liked that feature.
Some people edited their posts, 4,5 times, and they still looked stupid afterwards.
It’s a pretty good site if you’re a Viking or Packer fan, and you like to argue. They talk all topics, too, but it’s also infested with neocons.
"The journey of 1000 miles has begun. Baby steps...Baby Jesus steps, that is."
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Mitchell (the topic of this post)
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on Aug 3, 2011 12:33 PM CDT up reply actions
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