Calipari as Knicks Coach

They need somebody on their team that can dribble drive then.  I don’t see chauncey being a dribble drive player, he never really has been, especially at his age now.  Toney Douglas isn’t a dribble drive player.  They need to get someone in free agency that can do that for them to have Calipari’s offense work.  The Knicks with their current roster would struggle mightily with that offense.

Carmelo isn’t a dribble drive guy.  He is an iso, half court guy.  Same with Amare.

Dribble drive would be great for the Miami Heat.  Two guys who can get to the basket in Lebron and Wade.  A mobile big man in Chris Bosh and some decent role players in Haslem, Mike Miller, their centers, Bibby, James Jones, and Mario Chalmers.

If Calipari coached the Heat then he can go after guys who fit in well with the dribble drive offense like Joey Dorsey and Chris Douglas Roberts.  They could probably get those guys pretty cheap.  The Heat could use a solid athelete at the 5 who can rebound and block shots and throw down alley-oops (what Joey Dorsey did at Memphis).  CDR was great because he could create his own shot and he had a great mid-range game. 

I don’t really know who they can draft with their pick who would fit in well with their system.  Alex Tyus can block shots and has great hops.  He could be a good fit.  He might even go undrafted. 

Isaiah Thomas has great speed and can to to the rim.  He would be a great pickup but he might be a reach at 32 or wherever they are picking.  If Singler drops then he can do a lot of things, and can stretch the floor as well as handle the ball.  He would be a good pick if he falls.  Chandler Parsons might work out.  Those two guys would be great off the bench long-term.

If Plumlee comes out then he might be a good pick.  Good athlete, good size, good shot-blocker.  Wouldn’t dominate the ball.

Vernon Macklin is a player I really like in the second round (I have him at 53).  He would be an insurance policy for Udonis Haslem.  David Lighty if he can be a good defender then he would be a good fit for the Heat.  He might be there at 32.

I just don’t think that dribble drive would be a good fit for the Knicks. 

What I think would be neat if the Heat traded Lebron James and Chris Bosh to the Knicks for Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire.  A big three of Wade, Melo, and Amare would be better for the Heat, and Lebron would own New York.  Bosh could be the second option and Billups would be the grown up and the closer. 

What about Calipari as the Kings coach?

I think he would rather be in a winning situtaion like the Knicks. But I think he would do good as the Kings coach or as the Wizards coach.

They only want him because of his ties to William Wesley and Chris Paul.  

^^Hit the nail right on the head…I honestly think Calipari is the most overrated NCAA Coach. Everyone gets into arguements about Barnes not winning with talent, how about Calipari, he always seems to have at least one Top 5 recruit, multiple draft picks every year, Evans, Rose, Wall, Cousins, Jones, Knight, Patterson, Bledsoe, etc. What does he have to show for it.

As much as I dislike Dantoni’s shoot yourself out of the game mentality, I think they would be making a huge mistake by acquiring Calipari.

I don’t think he is leaving uk, and I know that he probably wouldn’t want to go to the kings and coach Cousins again (they survived and get along, but don’t think Cal wants to deal with the constant headaches that Big Cuz can bring and this is coming from a big cousins fan.) In response to cal being over rated, I say he will have at least one championship within the next 3 years. I thought this year he did a great job getting UK to the final four. When Jorts got in foul trouble against uconn, he broke out the zone to protect the interior and i thought it was very effective. His development of Harrelson and Liggins also shows some of the work he has done.

Im not sold on Calapari as a great coach. Im a firm believer that he is the ultimate Recruiter, but think he is an average coach. He does a great job of bringing in talent, but the way he lost the Memphis-Kansas Championship game speaks volumes about his coaching. No way no how was he suppose to lose that game, it should have never made it to overtime.

I’m interested in this. I would love to get Calipari

Coach Cal is such a great recruiter that I’d love to see him take on an NBA front office job if he ever retired from coaching as he’d be great at selling a franchise to FA’s and you’d have to consider that with his knowledge of college ball then he’d be a good drafter of talent.

Doesn’t he have about 6 years left on his deal with KFC Uni which would equate to a buyout of about $22 to $24 million.

 I think What Cal needs to do in order to win the championship is get his players to stop thinking about the NBA or play great just to try and increase their stock. That will come by itself by just getting better at the game and playing well. (I don’t Kemba cared about his stock he just wanted to win, and look at his stock now. Already in the lottery when before the tournament he was only a mid first round pick!) If Calipari can get his players to stop playing for themselves or the NBA or to just increase their stock, and start playing to win and for the team then they will win. They could’ve beated Uconn if they would have started playing like a team instead of for themselves. It always seems that Cal can get his team to the final four but never past that stage. I think its because his players keep thinking about their future in the NBA or they think they have proved enough and no need to prove more or increase their stock even more. Stop playing for yourself and start playing for the Team. 

Thinking about Coach Cal’s contract I looked on the web and found this link, it certainly looks as if he could terminate his contract much cheaper than UK could terminate him.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13865464/John-Caliparis-contract-with-the-University-of-Kentucky–

As a Memphis Tigers fan who had Kentucky in the Final Four (beating UCONN and losing ot Kansas), I think his 2008 Memphis team and this year’s team developed very well.  In 2008 losing Andre Allen (our back up point guard) for the Final Four really hurt.  Rose probably got tired towards the end of the Kansas game.

Another thing is Kansas had a LOT more big men than we did.  We had a big 7 footer with a nice shooting touch in Kareem Cooper off the bench but he left the team or something.  We really could have used him in 2008.

This year, Kentucky played very well.  If they had beaten UCONN then they probably would have beaten Butler.  What they lacked were enough big men off the bench to match UCONN.  Like some extra 6’9 or 6’10 guys who could rebound and block shots.  A good back up point guard would have helped too.  Again, I think Calipari’s bench wasn’t deep enough.  

I don’t think that Calipari developed the bottom of the rotation well enough while at Memphis.  The stars like Rose and Tyreke played very well.  Semi-stars like CDR really put it together in 2008 forming arguably the most fun college backcourt I have ever seen (Rose and CDR).  CDR really played to his strengths and formed an ideal second option for Derrick Rose.  Joey Dorsey was way up and down over his career but he played pretty solid his senior year by just concentrating on rebounds and blocks.  … before that he got Shawne Williams to play well within a team concept.  He had a pretty good year but it wasn’t all about him. I think that Rodney Carney, when he was at U of M, did a pretty good job of getting a lot out of his talent.

Coach Cal had some good role players on that 2008 team in Antonio Anderson (glue guy), Robert Dozier (solid power forward), and Andre Allen (missed Final Four), but guys like Kareem Cooper, Donneal Mack, Jeff Robinson, and some others weren’t really developed enough or they didn’t have enough confidence.   If we had had some more big men off the bench and a good shooter off the bench then we would have had a better shot in 2008 (apart from the breakdown in the last 2 minutes). 

This year, Kentucky wasn’t that deep either.  U CONN’s size and depth on the front line hurt Kentucky. 

He’s not the best tactician so I am not sure he would do that great in the NBA.  Kentucky is gonna be loaded next year so he should probably stay there.  Ironically, if he had not gone to Kentucky he probably would have won a title at Memphis.  We would have had John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Xavier Henry, Wesley Witherspoon, Will Coleman, Willie Kemp, Donneal Mack, and Shawn Taggart.