Which NBA coaches’ jobs are on the line this season? | Good Word with Goodwill
Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and basketball analyst Isis "Ice" Young discuss which NBA coaches could potentially be on the hot seat heading into the 2024-25 season. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Coaches on the hot seat like the odds, I suppose, say that Billy Donovan in Chicago has one doc Rivers in Milwaukee is one which I don't necessarily buy.
And Willie Green with the Pelicans is one or possibly Michael Malone, which I'm not really sure about JJ Reddick, which I'm definitely not sure about.
Or Quinn Snyder in Atlanta, is there a coach in particular that stands out to you?
And you're saying, I don't know if he's gonna get fired but we gotta be watching him.
Yeah, I would say Billy Donovan with the Bulls.
Um The, the reason that I have is like they have some talent on their team, but the roster I I is jumbled up, you know, it's a bunch of guards.
Um Yeah, it, it, it just seems jumbled up like there's a bunch of guards.
Uh, Josh Getty Alonzo Ball, Kobe White, Zach Levine, IOD and Terry, uh Jon Carter, a bunch of guards and Moore and company.
And so there's like the challenge of finding space and minutes for those guards.
Also, though the development, we obviously know that Lonzo is a question mark.
So we don't really know how much that plays a part into it.
Um But I feel like the rosters should be better constructed.
I'm curious what happens with Wooly Green in New Orleans only because of everything there with Griff and because the fact that they don't have a center, you're trying to use Zion Williamson at center, you added Deonte Murray, you got Brandon Ingram who you didn't extend and you didn't trade.
I don't know how that makes for any coach to be able to keep a roster in focus because of the failures of the front office.
But for front office leaving such a massive hole in team building.
I don't get the Doc Rivers thing.
He just got there.
He wins at a huge clip.
Like everybody makes the 31 jokes about Doc Rivers.
He's still there though.
Exactly.
He's still there.
Like, don't get me wrong.
That championship ring has some dust on it.
But, and I do think that Doc is better with the try hard teams than the superstar teams.
But I think if you have a healthy Dame Lillard, a healthier Giannis, I don't think that they're, they're going to have many problems.
I actually think the Bucks will be a sleeper.