Tomasson: Adrian Dantley not coming back

I didn’t realize this was such a big deal. When I read the title I thought he was just let go because he wasn’t worth a new contract, but damn. Didn’t realize there was such an issue.

Makes me wonder what else might be going on in the organization.

Just when you think this organization is headed in the right direction boom they do something stupid like this. It’s terrible and embarassing. Good luck AD I hope you find another coaching gig just like tim grgurich did with Dallas now he’s got a new fat ring to show off. Great job nuggets great job.

Big thanks to Mr. Tomasson!

I have a feeling(and quite frankly hope) that there is more to it than that. If there wasn’t…well…wtf?!

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Some Brazilians think Nene drop out of Oly qual means will opt out of contract But agent Dan Fegan told HoopsHype could re-sign w/ Den as FA

Fired for not rotating? Really??

Most likely he was fired either because 1. he wasn’t a very good coach or 2. economics – he was making too much given what he brought to the table.

Who gets fired for not rotating his seat on the bench rather than his poor rotation of players? If you’re a good coach no one is going to give a crap about politics of where you sit on the bench. In fact, I would say that the fact Adrian Dantley thinks he got fired for not rotating speaks volumes about his ability to problem solve, diagnose issues, and make adjustments – probably the real reason he got fired.

Damn, so who replaces him.

Do not handle business this way. The nuggets have handled this AD and Nene situations very poorly and to tell you the truth I’m all not that thrilled about it. Makes this franchise look weak. Its time for damage control?

However he is a HOF’er as a player and you would hope the organization could have made this move in a better way so he could go out more gracefully and not make public his feelings about the whole deal. Good luck getting other assistants that are worth a damn and aren’t yes men like the ones we have now. This deal smells pretty bad.

God I get so sick of people jumping on every single thing to try and trash on George Karl.

Let’s look at who is really to blame here. Adrian Dantley gets all up in a fuss about how Karl wants to start rotating coaches, he basically throws a tantrum and says fine, I’ll just sit in the back the whole time and you can have it your way. Really? You are going to cause friction with the entire coaching staff over something so small as not getting your seat on the bench every night.

 AD was overpaid, was a poor coach and obviously not a team player. Good riddance.

Excellent move by George Karl

It was obvious there was dissension last season among the coaching staff, with Melvin Hunt taking a more visible role with GK and with the players. I think this a conflict between Mel Hunt and AD, and Mel won. Frankly, I would much rather have Hunt than AD. AD refusing to rotate, and sitting in back pouting all season, was rather childish and a disruption the team didn’t need. Maybe Coach Grg can return now??

My only concern is if AD had a good relationship with Nene, and this is another factor in Nene going elsewhere…

I did notice that he seemed to take a diminished role amongst the other assistants last season, but I didn’t think too much of it.

I’m totally with Andrew that his coaching cost us that series against Utah in the 2010 playoffs.

More sad about the indications that Nene is considering opting out. That would make me cry.

Assistant coaches are super important and play a huge role on good teams. Dallas, this year, was an example of a team where each of the assistant coaches brought something unique and valuable to the table.

I never thought the guy was that good of a coach to begin with, and a coach pouting is the absolute worst thing for a team where players are looking to the coaches for leadership and solidarity. If the coaching staff doesn’t convey a consistent message, good luck getting the players to execute it. It’s also terrible when the team goes through adversity when players and coaches need to stick together.

This guy should be employed by The Post. He is one of the top NBA writers in the nation.

If not it doesn’t really make sense to me.

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"That guy does everything hard," said McMillan of Faried. "He ties his shoe hard."

Diva Coach Karl has taken no blame nor responsibility on anything and continue to try to blame everything wrong on Melo

Funny though, the team tanked in the playoffs again. The players were outplayed and the coaches were outcoached… just like every year

But it’s never the Diva’s fault, of course not.

that’s pretty cool

he never knew he was fired and just “hanged around”, I bet he will have front row seats right behind the nuggets bench again this year not doing a thing.

to get the Jazz to hire their former great as a HC and then have him work his “magic” in that position.

AD didn’t really help this team that much. He wasn’t even really fired. He just wasn’t renewed. Does that really surprise anyone given all the changes this team has gone through lately. Get over it. Maybe GK will bring in a good defensive minded assistant since that’s where his focus seems to be now.

when he heard the news.

i dont really have an opinion on this, i just hope we can move on from all this drama of the 2010-2011 season and get going with this new team of nuggets.

Coach Karl has only developed one assistant into HC material in his time with the Nugs in Scott Brooks, who for all intent and purposea outcoached his mentor in the playoffs. I know Karl didn’t have the time or abilty to make the adjustments necessary in bringing a basically new team into the playoffs post Melodrama. Hopefully he can bring in a couple of veteran assistants with HC experience to rework the offense and defense schemes to fit the players the Nugs have right now or plan to go with after the labor situation is resolved.

AD sounds like a child who didn’t get his way, and instead of dealing with it like a man, he pouted on the back bench all season…what a great example of leadership. He had his chance to coach the team, failed miserably, holds this grudge all season, then talks shit when they don’t give him a new contract? Good riddance.

He keeps referring to it as a termination, when there just wasn’t a new contract offered. And then this bit of journalistic, um, ‘flourish’:

In late May, Karl told Dantley he was thinking about making a change. "You didn’t look happy this season," he told him, raising the back-of-the-bus, er, in-back-of-the-bench situation.

Maybe I misunderstood what he meant, but a ‘back-of-the-bus’ reference is in poor taste and cheapens the significance of the civil rights movement.

If the guy’s quotes were anything to go by, he wasn’t any less prickly as an assistant coach than he was as a player. Not rotating on the bench is a petty damn thing, but it shows that he wasn’t willing to get with the program, and it also means he created an ego drama that Karl and the other assistants didn’t need.
Karl was absolutely right not to renew the guy’s contract.