Larry Krystkowiak Will Be Nets' Fifth Assistant
by Net Income on Jul 17, 2010 10:38 AM EDT
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Although there's been no announcement, Avery Johnson made it clear Wednesday that former Bucks head coach Larry Krystkowiak will be on his staff this season. Krystkowiak has also confirmed he's joining the Nets. He will be the team's fifth assistant coach.
"We're going to have a coaching staff that has a lot of experience, especially head coaches, with Sam Mitchell on my staff and Larry Krystkowiak, who was the head coach at Milwaukee," Johnson told season ticket holders in a conference call. "We retained John Loyer, we brought in Popeye Jones from Dallas who's going to be a really good big man's coach and Tom Barrise, who's going to be my do-it-all coach in every facet of the game. So we feel we have a really competent coaching staff that's going to be energized and are really good teachers".
Krystkowiak, who played nine years in the NBA, was head coach of the Bucks for 100 games at the end of the 2006-07 season and all of 2007-2008, winning 31 before being fired. In an interview earlier this week with his hometown paper, Krystkowiak said, "I feel real lucky to be able to go to work with a guy like Avery who’s had a lot of success.”
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his name...
"I want to win, I want the team to win and I'm in complete control."
-Coach Avery Johnson.
I like it
NI can you keep up informed about other staff hirings. I’m interested to see what Billy King puts around him as far as a staff.
correction needed
who’s going to be my do-it-all coach in every facet of the gam.
by Yi Of Little Faith on Jul 17, 2010 12:11 PM EDT reply actions
I remember.....
Krystkowiak when he played…….He was a very aggressive player and a fierce competitor at that……..One of the reasons why I believe that the Nets will be great this year is not only Avery but the force thet will be with him on the sidelines……This coaching staff that he is assembling will not back off of these players until they develop a Winning attitude……
Club "Fired"
Lots of former head coaches there. I hope they can control emerging head cases early on.
"Beat the Heat!"
the Nets has King n James
That's a good thing
I like having assertive personalities on the coaching staff.
This will be a tight ship. I support Avery 100% until the opening tip.
"No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on...I will be sitting on it."
by MrDollarBills on Jul 17, 2010 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I love this hire
I’m not sold on Larry as a head coach necessarily, but as an assistant, I think he’ll be very valuable.
Popeye Jones - scaring the children of New Jersey since 2010.
'The Crossover' - a Nets and Knicks podcast. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=268817312
It's funny
I remember reading an article where Cuban called Avery a great coach, but that he didn’t listen to his assistants. Well, I’m not sure why there are two former head coaches who would want to pair up with Avery. Maybe there’s a change for the better. Either way it looks like we are going to have a dynamite coaching staff.
maybe avery has learned???
"No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on...I will be sitting on it."
by MrDollarBills on Jul 17, 2010 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't really listen to Cuban
He honestly exaggerates a lot of what he says. I also think that Johnson has learned his lesson from his experiences in Dallas, and while I’d like him to be hard on this group of players and assistants, I think he will be more willing to listen this time around. We’ll have to wait and see.
terrific
With our young players we need as much personal instruction as we can get on all facets of the game. Nice change from last year.
Good signing, i remember hearing about this before, and being intrigued on how he would be able to help our bigs, but i also like the toughness he brings out of his players, the nets are doing exactly what they should, bringing in all these coaches to help develop their young core of players, nets need to find some shooting coaches now
I wonder who's paying his salary
he signed a four year deal with Bucks then was fired the next summer. Deal is still in effect.
same with Mitchell and Johnson. Both were still under contract with their former teams when they were signed by the Nets.
Loyer last year received most of his pay from the Sixers who dumped him the year before. He had been making $300,000.
In every coaching contract, there is an offset clause. If you are given a long contract, fired, then get hired by another team, your contract with the original team is reduced—offset—by whatever you’re getting from the new team.
So if Krystkowiak was still being paid $1 million by the Bucks and the Nets gave him a contract for $200,000, the Bucks would still be paying him $800,000.
Musselman was the guy to get
Way to blow it AGAIN Nets!!!
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