Coach Becky

[da man]

As has been well documented on this board, I have a giant crush on former WNBA star Becky Hammon. Well, last night my girl Becky, who last season became the NBA's first female full-time assistant coach, became the first woman to coach an NBA team to a championship. OK, so it was only the Spurs' Las Vegas Summer League team, but still...

Hammon, Spurs take Las Vegas Summer League championship

Anyway, the question is this: Is Hammon being groomed to become the NBA's first female head coach? Could she end up replacing Pop when he finally hangs it up?

Becky Hammon is ready to be a head coach in the NBA | Ball Don't Lie - Yahoo Sports

Becky Hammon shows she belongs as Spurs' Summer League head coach | NBA | Sporting News

Becky Hammon should be on every list of potential NBA head coaches - SBNation.com

I'll hang up and listen.

 

[Iron_chet]

That gal sure can coach.

 

[da man]

 

[Songbird]

She'll be the Spurs' coach the day Pop goes to the front office for good.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

If you can coach, you can coach, man or woman. Ninety percent of the battle is getting a bunch of grown ass millionaires to buy in. San Antonio's team culture may be the one place where it'll work.

 

[Starman]

One problem is the first female coach can't really take over a losing/expansion team as many first- time coaches do, because if the first female coach opens her first season 10-32, that'll be it -- and you won't see another one for 15 years.

Unless the first female coach has absolutely ironclad backing from management and ownership, not too common on losing/expansion teams.

Ownership will have to be willing-- in fact eager -- to massively fine and suspend the first player who tells her to go **** herself. Because as soon as anybody gets away with it, everybody will try to get away with it.

(It would probably be a smart move for the pioneering team to work out a silent agreement with their best player ahead of time to stage a fake rebellion/suspension-fining/apology and reinstatement sequence -- with the full agreement the 'rebellious' player will eventually get his money back, after he publicly buys in and supports the coach.)

 

[MisterCreosote]

One problem is the first female coach can't really take over a losing/expansion team as many first- time coaches do, because if the first female coach opens her first season 10-32, that'll be it.

Unless the first female coach has absolutely ironclad backing from management and ownership, not too common on losing/expansion teams.

Plus, replacing Pop has to be pretty high on the list of "****tiest situations for a first-time head coach."

 

[cjericho]

One problem is the first female coach can't really take over a losing/expansion team as many first- time coaches do, because if the first female coach opens her first season 10-32, that'll be it.

Unless the first female coach has absolutely ironclad backing from management and ownership, not too common on losing/expansion teams.

Ownership will have to be willing-- in fact eager -- to massively fine and suspend the first player who tells her to go **** herself. Because as soon as anybody gets away with it, everybody will try to get away with it.

(It would probably be a smart move for the pioneering team to work out a silent agreement with their best player ahead of time to stage a fake rebellion/suspension-fining/apology and reinstatement sequence -- with the full agreement the 'rebellious' player will eventually get his money back, after he publicly buys in and supports the coach.)

Is the last line for real, or is that from a screenplay?

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Think he was watching "Eddie" as he wrote that?

Pat Summit could have done it. The quotes from the summer Spurs were very complimentary.

 

[cjericho]

Think he was watching "Eddie" as he wrote that?

Pat Summit could have done it. The quotes from the summer Spurs were very complimentary.

Yes, that was it. Couldn't think of it, that was a kind of forgettable movie.

 

[sgreenwell]

Yes, that was it. Couldn't think of it, that was a kind of forgettable movie.

It probably paid for a nice new patio at Rick Fox's mansion. And who could forget Dwayne Schintzius as Ivan Radovadovitch?

 

[YankeeFan]

Coach Becky is the new USWNT:



Will Sally Kohn, and Valerie Jarrett have to pretend to be fans of her too?

When's the NYC Ticker Tape Parade?

 

[Neutral Corner]

Plus, replacing Pop has to be pretty high on the list of "****tiest situations for a first-time head coach."

Well, at least she wouldn't be the guy that replaced the guy...

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Didn't Greg Ostertag win an Oscar for that movie, or was he just nominated?

 

[poindexter]

She does not take a bad picture.

 

[Big Circus]

Coach Becky is the new USWNT:



Will Sally Kohn, and Valerie Jarrett have to pretend to be fans of her too?

When's the NYC Ticker Tape Parade?

Hey, the summer league is a big ****ing deal!

 

[Starman]

Think he was watching "Eddie" as he wrote that?

Pat Summit could have done it. The quotes from the summer Spurs were very complimentary.

I never watched "Eddie." Exactly the kind of movie I would never ever ever watch in my life. So I assume something like that happens?

Seriously there should be much less prejudice toward Hammon, who did play on a high level for s long time, than there is against a lot of the non-athlete career clipboard carrier guys like the VanGundys, or there was against Rick Majerus, or guys like Phil Jackson or Larry Brown, who haven't played in 40 years.

 

[YankeeFan]

Hey, the summer league is a big ****ing deal!

Chelsea Clinton was watching the game live on her computer while flying cross country. Several times during the flight, she found herself cheering out loud.

 

[Songbird]

**** watched every game she coached this summer while pounding it out on his treadmill. Now *she*, he thought, is an American hero!

 

[YankeeFan]

I hear she's going to be on the cover EA's NBA Summer League video game.