Indiana Joins Teams Looking For A Coach

[Roy H.]

After one tumultuous season, the Indiana Pacers fired coach Nate Bjorkgren on Wednesday, sources told ESPN.

[Smartacus]

Word is their considering Terry Stotts, if it's true I'm sure Stott's availability factored into their decision to fire Bjorken.

Think that's a good fit for both Indy and Stotts if he's looking to jump right back into coaching.

[Atzar]

Kinda surprised at that.  Indiana never got all of their pieces on the court at one time.  Given that, I wouldn't expect a coach to get the hook after his first year - and a very weird, abnormal year at that. 

Wonder whether there was something else behind the scenes... p---ed the wrong person off, perhaps. 

[Surferdad]

It's a competition like any other.  If Brad hesitates, he will lose.

[RJ87]

Kinda surprised at that.  Indiana never got all of their pieces on the court at one time.  Given that, I wouldn't expect a coach to get the hook after his first year - and a very weird, abnormal year at that. 

Wonder whether there was something else behind the scenes... p---ed the wrong person off, perhaps.

There was an article on The Ringer (I think? maybe somewhere else) that went in depth about how the players turned on him. Surprised it too this long.

EDIT: It was Bleacher Report
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2942713-inside-the-turbulent-tenure-of-indiana-pacers-coach-nate-bjorkgren

[Atzar]

Kinda surprised at that.  Indiana never got all of their pieces on the court at one time.  Given that, I wouldn't expect a coach to get the hook after his first year - and a very weird, abnormal year at that. 

Wonder whether there was something else behind the scenes... p---ed the wrong person off, perhaps.

There was an article on The Ringer (I think? maybe somewhere else) that went in depth about how the players turned on him. Surprised it too this long.

EDIT: It was Bleacher Report
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2942713-inside-the-turbulent-tenure-of-indiana-pacers-coach-nate-bjorkgren

Gotcha.  TP for the article. 

[Tr1boy]

Word is their considering Terry Stotts, if it's true I'm sure Stott's availability factored into their decision to fire Bjorken.

Think that's a good fit for both Indy and Stotts if he's looking to jump right back into coaching.

so from one so so coach to another??

Pacer players really stood their ground against Bjorkgren from what it sounds like

Bjorkgren back to Raptors as an assistant I imagine

[ozgod]

It's a competition like any other.  If Brad hesitates, he will lose.

Exactly. And if he rushes and picks the wrong coach he will be pilloried all year for making the wrong choice. Such is the life of the head of a front office. 

[ozgod]

Kinda surprised at that.  Indiana never got all of their pieces on the court at one time.  Given that, I wouldn't expect a coach to get the hook after his first year - and a very weird, abnormal year at that. 

Wonder whether there was something else behind the scenes... p---ed the wrong person off, perhaps.

There was an article on The Ringer (I think? maybe somewhere else) that went in depth about how the players turned on him. Surprised it too this long.

EDIT: It was Bleacher Report
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2942713-inside-the-turbulent-tenure-of-indiana-pacers-coach-nate-bjorkgren

So he tried to be a hardarse Bobby Knight type screaming at the players and the players tuned him out because grown men don't like being screamed at like they're college kids? And we wonder why Brad didn't try and do the same with the Celtics like everyone wanted him to 

[Celtics4ever]

Guys who advocate for the screaming coaches probably never played past high school or prior to the 1990s, it just does not work with grown men

[cons]

I definitely would hire Indiana Jones

that guy doesnt lose!