RIP Doug Moe

[Michael_ Gee]

ABA star player, Larry Brown's assistant in the ABA. (they both wore overalls once), then coach of the Nuggets in the NBA in the 80s when they were the highest scoring team in the league. If only he could have coached Jokic.

 

[MarkWatney]

Think he appeared briefly in the ABA documentary that just dropped on Amazon Prime.

He was quite a player in his day; his career was messed up by the same pseudo scandal that entangled Connie Hawkins.

 

[Liut]

This absolutely sucks.
Terrific guy.
Bob Ford in Philly had a great line:
"Moe is not much of a company man, and the Sixers are not much of a company."
That was his last head coaching gig, IIRC.
The man had zero tolerance for bull****, though he did dispense his share of it.
Loved watching his Nuggets teams, and also listening on KOA.
A throwback. A damn good player in his time.
All the best, sir. RIP

 

[MileHigh]

Met him twice. Just a great guy. Obviously, a huge loss here in the Mile High City. Those '80s Nuggets teams were fun but they couldn't get past Showtime.

RIP.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

At a time when we had Pat Riley and Chuck Daly, Doug Moe was proudly the biggest slob in the league. Coaches would get fined for not wearing a tie on the sideline and Moe would just pay it and not give a ****. At a time when when you had coaching personalities like Don Nelson and Frank Layden, he was one of the most colorful.

RIP ya stiff.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Nice little bit in the AP obit: “rumpled, irreverent and R-rated.”

Great coach and a character. RIP.

 

[Gym Beam]

I vaguely remember seeing him play against the Chaparrals in the late 60s-early 70s.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I seem to remember him getting supplanted by a rookie Dr. J in the ABA before he retired and became a coach.

Then, there was the debacle when he was hired by the Sixers right before they traded Charles Barkley for a bag of jock straps. I think he lasted half a season in what was a coaching black hole at the time.

RIP.

 

[maumann2]

Love this quote from Moe about the brand of basketball in the NBA. I always thought the ABA was way more exciting and fun. Sort of similar to the AFL-NFL before their merger.

"One of the biggest disappointments in my life was going into the NBA after the merger. The NBA was a rinky-dink league—listen, I'm very serious about this. The league was run like garbage. There was no camaraderie; a lot of the NBA guys were aloof and thought they were too good to practice or play hard. The NBA All-Star Games were nothing—guys didn't even want to play in them and the fans could [sic] care less about the games. It wasn't until the 1980s, when David Stern became commissioner, that the NBA figured out what the hell they were doing, and what they did was a lot of stuff we had in the ABA—from the 3-point shot to All-Star weekend to the show biz stuff. Now the NBA is like the old ABA. Guys play hard, they show their enthusiasm and there is a closeness in the league. Hell, the ABA might have lost the battle, but we won the war. The NBA now plays our kind of basketball."

 

[melock]

I seem to remember him getting supplanted by a rookie Dr. J in the ABA before he retired and became a coach.

Then, there was the debacle when he was hired by the Sixers right before they traded Charles Barkley for a bag of jock straps. I think he lasted half a season in what was a coaching black hole at the time.

RIP.

I've been a Sixers fan for about 35 years. They gave Moe 56 games in the 92-93 season before pulling the plug. He was the least of their problems; horrible drafting in the late 80s and early 90s, terrible trades and not getting nearly enough for Barkley were far worse.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I seem to remember him getting supplanted by a rookie Dr. J in the ABA before he retired and became a coach.

Then, there was the debacle when he was hired by the Sixers right before they traded Charles Barkley for a bag of jock straps. I think he lasted half a season in what was a coaching black hole at the time.

RIP.

I've been a Sixers fan for about 35 years. They gave Moe 56 games in the 92-93 season before pulling the plug. He was the least of their problems; horrible drafting in the late 80s and early 90s, terrible trades and not getting nearly enough for Barkley were far worse.

Don’t get me started!

 

[Songbird]

Staple of my youth whose teams gave my beloved Lakers a few runs for their money. Couldn’t play a lick of D but those Nuggets were fun to watch as was He.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Just watched the ABA documentary on Prime. They had a brief interview with Moe. He did not look good, and now I know why.