Brendan Quinn on Beilein/Pistons: It could actually happen
Quinn is pretty connected to the Beilein camp and seems to think there is genuine interest from both sides. He goes into further detail in a piece for the Athletic.
1) This ain't about John Beilein leveraging for more money.
— Brendan F. Quinn (@BFQuinn) June 3, 2018
2) The Pistons are quite serious about Beilein
3) This could actually happen.
That and much more, here:https://t.co/m60AIgeBfU
If JB does this then he is not the guy I thought he was. I seriously don't see him making this move. I don't think he would rather manage spoiled millionaires over kids that actually care what he says and what he thinks of them.
This is hilarious and so Michigan.
Tom Izzo would be connected to 50 million NBA jobs over the past 15 years, but of course Michigan's coach would leave instantly we smell some semblence of consistent national success in a big 3 sport.
Sport gods hate this school. Smh.
Oh and fuck the Pistons.
...and being better than Ohio State on the field and/or gameplan-wise for a few years and still losing. And having a QB whisperer as a HC and having your QB be a main reason they lost. And...ok I'm done I'll be here all night.
they always punch ya right in the doing!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
FFS, do the Pistons even have a GM yet?!?!
Perhaps they would offer him both positions? The man can identify talent and being GM would allow him to keep prima donna's off the roster.
Nevermind, this is a terrible thought and coaching in the NBA is an awful thankless job so let's all just forget about it. The future is far too bright around here for this silly noise.
Well, if Tom Gores has anything left that could be a called a brain and it knows anything about basketball however basic, hiring a coach before a GM would present a weird dynamic and you would hope his T-shirt cannon could at least remind him of that. In any case, I still think it is ultimately unlikely, but after the Van Gundy experience, the franchise would have to be truly dim to offer another person both jobs, but it IS the Pistons....
That's the closest I can come up with for a late career college to NBA jump but the similarities end there as I think Tarkanian had resigned or was forced out from UNLV while Beilen is the complete opposite (and thankfully so).
If the Pistons take Bielien, I'll never watch them, listen to them, check there fucking score, or even think about them ever again.
As it stands, think I'll do all of that anyway, just for interviewing him. Fuck that bullshit franchise in a bullshit league. Won't make a difference to them, though - I barely pay any thought to the NBA as it is. It's a bush league affair...
I actually don't think it would alienate some of the fanbase. I would probably be more inclined to watch the Pistons, not less. And Michigan State fans are usually very complimentary of Beilein from what I've seen, so it shouldn't hurt in that regard either.
I agree with you that the move makes little sense career-wise, though. It might be the most un-Beilein roster in the NBA. Bad team with bad contracts, etc.
need every fan they can get - they play in front of empty seats
Same, they wouldbe dead to me forever, and I have been a fan since the early 80's
Roster ain't gonna change that quickly for the Pistons. They're in cap space hell and stuck with 3 players who either have injury problems and can't space the floor.
Nobody is going to offload those contracts.
On top of that, Stan Van Gundy fucked the team over by getting rid of this year's 1st round pick and the NBA is changing lottery percentages to discourage tanking.
The Pistons are going nowhere.
It is much harder to move bad contracts now in the NBA. Teams are no longer as willing to take them on. Ryan Anderson has been stuck in Houston because of his anchor of a contract, and Daryl Morey is one of the most creative GMs in terms of crafting trades to make the money work.
The problems is the NBA is all about your best 2-3 players. No one cares that Van Gundy turned over the roster from players 7-13. This team was being built around Andre Drummond when he got here, and that is still the case now. Only the situation is even worse now with the Blake Griffin contract, and no promising young players under 25 on the roster. The Pistons actually have one of the oldest teams in the league and didn't even make the playoffs.
Yea I am sure there is a line of idiots looking to take Blake Griffon, Andre Drummon, and Reggie Jackson. Those guys are not going anywhere, if they could move them they would have already.