#Earl Hammon

[tawneybel]

Note: Hottest animated characters, part fourteen. At 1:09:09 in Phantom Tollbooth, the main characters meet the Trivium. There’s very brief mutual flirting between him and the Humbug. Or at least the latter is very flattered by the former. They have similar styles, color scheme included. Anyway, I ship them.

10. Mon*Star (Earl Hammon) from SilverHawks

Never watched this show, but masked villain hot.

9. Nick from “Don’t Answer Me” (Ammonia Avenue)

Lackluster plot, but I am a Nick luster. 

8. Once-ler (Bob Holt) from The Lorax

The 2017 version was cute and all, but lacked mysteriousness.

7. Horned King (John Hurt) from The Black Cauldron

Dark overlords are hot.

6. Terrible Trivium (Daws Butler) from The Phantom Tollbooth

I want to sit on his… face?

5. Dan Backslide (Mel Blanc) from Merrie Melodies

His heart? I’d steal it. AND NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW.

4. Infrared Ivan (Joe Alaskey) from My Life As a Teenage Robot 

He and the Brain Eating Meteor from GAOBAM would get along, probably.

3. Bowser (Jack Black) from The Super Mario Bros. Movie

This is the first time I’ve ever been attracted to Bowser lol.

2. Barley Lightfoot (Chris Pratt) from Onward

Elf thickness.

1. El Toro Fuerte (Miguel Sandoval) from Jackie Chan Adventures

Suplex me, sir.

Note: Previous part.

[mysticscrystalrevelation]

Game 24 Summed Up Sun, July 14 3:00pm EDT Las Vegas @ Washington

Starting: WASH: Atkins, Dolson, Hines-Allen, Richards, Vanloo (Austin hip recovery, Sykes foot injury, Samuelson hand injury) LV: Gray, Plum, Stokes, Wilson, Young

1st Quarter We're home! It's always good to be graced by the inimitable voices of Meghan McPeak and The Coach Christy Winters-Scott. Karlie is sporting an Ariel Atkins shirt from the bench tonight <3. The Mystics are playing tight person D to open the game and they eat up most of the shot clock before A'ja puts it away. Ariel maintains the hand hot from last game. She always pulls up a step earlier than you expect her to. Next play she hits the 3. Next play she crosses over and drives in for the bunny. I'm sure the Aces will start playing D at some point but right now it's Earl Vs. "She bit on that one and she chewed"—McWin. Stef catch-and-shoot 3, makes it look too easy. Chelsea Gray is assisting like the champ she is, but JVL shows she can do it, too, finding Stef cutting in. DiDi hesitates and hits and now Becky Hammon calls time. 14-6 Mystics off of lights out shooting. Shatori hits one with a foot on the perimeter line, followed by a 3 on the next play. KP had a drive and layup in between after a bad run of misses for the Aces. Now Earl steals but gives it back as the defense collapses. McWin let us know that AC and Diamond DeShields are the best huggers in the league. Add it to the end of season awards. Earl for 3 and it's 22-9 early. KP is the biggest threat right now putting her head down and charging to the rack. Atkins drains another one. Shatori picks up KP this time and gets her first steal of the game. EARL GOES AGAIN!!! Aaliyah makes a statement going hard against A'ja and hesitating just the right amount. Kate Martin drills a quick 3. 31-20. THE Ariel Atkins with 16 points.

2nd Quarter Engstler got a light whistle for her D and it seems to have fueled her, as she follows up with a rebound and a block. The Aces pace is up and help defense is better and Eric calls time to adjust. KP goes 3 but it's been pretty cold for both teams despite this quarter speeding by. Jackie gets a tech—unclear what happened. Jade's 3 is waived off for an offensive foul by Aaliyah. A'ja really doesn't need any space to make a shot. The Aces have strung together 3 successful plays while the Mystics had a couple turnovers, dropping the lead to just 5. Earl breaks the spell with a tough jumper. We turn again on the next play, so she goes ahead and pulls up again after to clean the slate with 2 points. Tip Hayes throws up a 3 from the Alyssa Thomas School of Technique. KP follows suit, with the 3 not the technique, and the lead is almost gone. Eric asks for time. Unfortunately, we are even more out of rhythm out of the timeout and turn it over twice more. Jackie ties the game with a 3. JVL able to answer. Cold shooting and a handful of turns have given the Aces the room to come back into this game. 43-40.

3rd Quarter Well, damn. Chelsea passes the ball between her own legs to a cutting A'ja to start the Aces off in the second half. They rim out on 4 consecutive shots from deep however, and Yish plays great D on KP. Our offense is not making the best decisions right now. Ouch, collision under the hoop and Chelsea hit her head on DiDi's leg and both leave the floor, hopefully a brief checkup situation. JVL steps back for the 3 and it is a needed jolt for the offense. A'ja soars over everyone for a difficult bucket. Earl pulls up way early for 2. We execute a sweet passing sequence, JVL to Stef to Yish to Earl for 3. Shatori decides it's her turn and buries the 3. Unfortunately, KP gets wide open on a screen and answers back. Things are still tight score-wise at 56-57. Layup game struggling—hate to see it. KP somehow fouls Ariel while attempting a 3, a rare offensive foul. I need a replay. Jado enters the game and demonstrates good composure after picking up her dribble, bounce passing to Engstler for the bunny. Aaliyah almost loses the handle but manages to shovel it to Earl who puts up the 3. Tip Hayes goes the extra mile with a step thru lay-in. Now A'ja blocks Ariel and it's a chaotic final minute of the quarter. 62-65.

4th Quarter DiDi will not come back this game (Chelsea has been back). Heal up! We have a couple poor shots here early in the 4th as Ariel sits for a minute. She rejoins but we're still having trouble getting the offense we want, meanwhile the Aces are scoring. 62-70 and Eric wants a word. Ariel fades out of the timeout to get things back on track and to top her career high for points!! A'ja takes it all the way in for 2 the other way, then we find Yish cutting in with a great pass. Shatori plays great D causing KP to lose the handle but we pass it right back to Tip. *head shake* This lightning quick steal-turn has happened a confusing number of times this season. Shatori blocks, but is not in legal guarding position and free throws extend the Aces lead to 8…and put them in the bonus. JVL throws up and buries a 3 to keep things close. A'ja picks up a rebound on the other end and puts it away. "That's babyfood down there for A'ja Wilson," Christy points out. The layup curse continues to strike us down. It's layup lines all break ok, team? Eric wants a timeout to make a plan for the final 4 minutes. JVL now has the most made 3s by any Mystic rookie all time. Caitlin Clark leads this year's rookies with 69 so far. AC finds space on a switch and drills a 3. Aaliyah has a nice pivot and finish. We can't make a layup to save our life, and it's not just been this game. Tip drops another 3 and it's timeout time once again. 71-82 this one is slipping with just 2 minutes left. Myisha gets a quick jumper, but KP answers. Earl demonstrates a successful layup to review in tape sessions. Shatori and Stef combine for a steal, and Yish hits another jumper, but the deficit is still 7 with only a minute to play. KP makes a ridiculous shot and bumps Melbourne on the way. Hmm, not the plan. Earl misses a jumper at the wrong time and it's just not gonna happen. 77-89 final. Disappointing after a strong start, but the Aces did start playing D in the second half. A whopping 36 points for Ariel (career high!). Team 57% from 3. 28-17 double-double for A'ja.

[caltropspress]

FEEDBACK LOOP #4: Armand Hammer & The Alchemist’s “God’s Feet”

As a child I introverted and drew pictures while my mother prayed to Jesus reading King James scriptures.

—Ras Kass, “The Evil That Men Do”

The dark and evil passions of his soul, His secret plot, and sordidness complete, His hate, his purposing…

—George Marion McClellan, “The Feet of Judas”

Bury the Bible at my feet, A testament at my head. If my dear father should call for me, Tell him that I am dead.

—Nelstone’s Hawaiians, “Fatal Flower Garden”

1.  James Joyce apostatized from his Catholic faith but continued to dig it for its rituals. That was an aspect to it he could tolerate and utilize for his art, as if his indoctrinated mind could fully renounce it if he wanted to. ELUCID’s first raps were recorded in a church—hallowed ground for some; narthex reverb, and nothing else, for him. Organized religion is “totally manufactured…a tool of control,” he’s said. Still, he concedes “the Bible is a beautiful book…if you remove the spirituality.” He renders its rolling paper pages into something worth uttering. Smell the burning coals and incense.

2.  “Blow that horn fast, we been read’ to go. When that horn blast, the dead is coming home.”

woods sings first, but ELUCID’s singing voice, to paraphrase Jupiter Hammon, is a penitential cry. I turn the radio knob to 89.9 FM on Sunday mornings when I go for groceries in Passaic. WKCR’s Amazing Grace plays raw gospel, which is what ELUCID emulates here: where the more hideous the voice gets, the holier the expression becomes.

The song structure is raw and unblunted, too. The refrain cuts for 80 seconds before a single verse, like Bashō in its brevity, staggers us. The Alchemist and Earl Sweatshirt co-production is muted: soft keys and Mark tree accents. They leave space to let God in.

3.  White is not a color!

In Franco Rosso’s Babylon, the titular Babylon is—among much mayhem—the cops with the no-knock warrant—the abhorrent clampdown on the sound-system. The guns of Brixton need blazing (or at least a knife to the gut, courtesy of Brinsley Forde). “Racial tension” is only a euphemism for murderous oppression.

4.  And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth. (Revelation 17:5, KJV)

When Mississippi John Hurt sings “Make Me a Pallet on the Floor,” he’s humbling himself—subordinating for the sake of adulterous love. The pallet is on the floor, and it’s soft and low. The sinful sweet-talk, he knows, signals risk: shoot, cut, stab. There’s no tellin’ what she might do. But the Book of Revelation offers an Armageddon glimpse of what she’s capable of. When accounting for behavior, though, who’s really the whore?

5.  “So the story goes…”

The pallet is full of pestilence and plague—of lice, roaches, scourges. It doubles as a coffin, or a cooling board. Son House sang of his love “laying on the cooling board” on “Death Letter Blues.” The pain of “her Judgment Day” seemed to rack him, and the “10,000 people…standin’ around the burying ground” felt it, too.

In Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the stable buck Crooks—the sole Black man on the ranch—associates only with the horses he tends to. Crooks’ bunk is a “long box filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung.” He’s segregated from the other workers, surrounded by harnesses and the sound of halter chains. Crooks, whose nickname carries the weight of criminality, “reduce[s] himself to nothing” when a white woman apocalyptically threatens him with a lynching.

6.  For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? (Revelation 6:17, KJV)

Milton William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse is, of course, a blessing and a bane. A dog-eared and spine-cracked hood classic on 125th in Harlem. But Wise Intelligent has recognized the limits of it. In its hip-hop adoption, the failures and shortcomings show through. Like on 2000’s “Horsementality,” where Kurupt barks a litany of adverbs including “ultramagnetically,” and it’s on “We Are the Horsemen” that Ced Gee looks beyond God to complain “the universe bothers [him].” You’ve got Canibus’ needlessly excessive 666 wordplay and Kool Keith’s “gamma data” and “galactic horse” super-scientifical madness. ELUCID, though, deals in the concrete, disregards the conspiratorial. He “find[s] the spirit getting lifted,” in a decidedly non-Keith Murray manner. When he beholds the white horse that comes forth conquering, we’re reminded of his anticolonialism, not black helicopters and chemtrails.

7.  “In the blink of an eye, the faithful go where they are made whole. / …the dead coming home, prepare a table... / Leave your freshest linens.”

God’ll have you feeling welcome, invited, only to leave you to the cops for violating the Sabbath. He’ll roll up on you like, Wilt thou be made whole? (John 5:6, KJV). Like, Motherfucker, do I look like I want your help? He’ll convince you your disability deserves a miracle, crap on crip culture, and then chastise you about “sin” while he spits ableist fictions.

8.  “Singing murder ballads. / Looking for a body.”

Harry Allen, in his eccentric and alchemical liner notes for the Anthology of American Folk Music, pens a summative headline for “Fatal Flower Garden”: “GAUDY WOMAN LURES CHILD FROM PLAYFELLOWS; STABS HIM AS VICTIM DICTATES MESSAGE TO PARENTS.”

There’s a foreboding to, arguably, every Armand Hammer recording—an educated guess, or a warning. (Aw shit!—you got a red dot on your head, too.) The mood is pervasive, like lily-white hands in murder ballads. One can find comfort in this consistency. It’s a proven fact ELUCID is up on that folk tradition shit: He hammers out danger. He hammers out a warning. What the song does is make the killing, the revolution, irresistible.

9.  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. (1 Corinthians 15:25, KJV)

What do God’s feet do exactly?

Does He still keep His Timbs on? Does He pirouette spin in a pair of Timbs? Is it haram to show the sole of your shoe?

If you read Corinthians, the feat of God’s feet suggests a more Old Testament-style HIB violator—a brutal and vengeful supreme being on the bully pulpit letting you know what’s what. Or maybe it’s not so wrathful. Maybe God’s feet are just a power move—the aggrandizement of the Godhead at the expense of the masses: “The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool” (Isaiah 66:1, KJV). We’re used to getting stepped on. The back alley boot stomp. We mortify our flesh, self-flagellate. And we keep coming back for more. But why? “God’s Feet” speaks of a return, but it’s more a recidivism.

Images:

The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem (detail), by David Roberts (1850) | Screenshot from Franco Rosso’s Babylon (1980) | Mississippi John Hurt, Folk Songs And Blues cover art (detail), Piedmont Records (1963) | [Dr. Richard Burr, an embalming surgeon in the Army of the James demonstrating the procedure on a dead soldier] between 1860 and 1865 | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (detail), Viktor Vasnetsov (1887) | The Crucifixion, panel from the Isenheim altarpiece (detail), Matthias Grünwald (1515) | Anthology of American Folk Music liner notes (detail), ed. Harry Smith (1952) | Screenshot from Franco Rosso’s Babylon (1980)

[junker-town]

The NBA coaching institution strikes back

Nine NBA teams hired new coaches this summer. All nine of them went with former NBA coaches or NBA assistants.

After a dry 2017 summer with no NBA head coaching changes, things got back to normal in 2018. Nine teams have hired new head coaches this summer, seven of those coming in the Eastern Conference.

If there’s one unifying theme in the hirings, it’s that the profession of coaching has struck back.

All changes now appear to be complete, barring a late dismissal or retirement. Three of the nine openings occurred during the season — this after a 2016-17 with no coach firings — but each of those teams waited until the offseason to make permanent assignments. The other six came open as coaches were dismissed after seasons ended. In at least one of these cases — Mike Budenholzer and the Atlanta Hawks — it appeared to be the coach breaking up with the team instead of the opposite.

What’s notable is that all nine of the head coaches hired this summer come from the ranks of NBA coaching.

This may not seem surprising, but consider how many recent head coaches we’ve seen come from other avenues. There have been head coaches who came straight out of playing in the NBA with no actual coaching experience, like Derek Fisher and Jason Kidd. There have been college coaches like Brad Stevens and Fred Hoiberg. There are have been international coaches — well, one international coach — like David Blatt. There have been retired players who made their mark in front offices like Kevin McHale and, to some extent, Steve Kerr. There have been retired players with broadcast TV experience but no coaching experience, like Mark Jackson and, to some extent, Steve Kerr. (Kerr is a success story for both the front office-to-sidelines and the broadcast-to-sidelines pipelines.)

NBA head coaches are usually either assistant NBA coaches or former NBA head coaches, but there are always exceptions. What’s notable about the 2018 merry-go-round is that there were no exceptions.

In fact, the number of new hires who were head coaches of other NBA teams in the 2017-18 season is remarkable. Mike Budenholzer went from the Hawks to the Bucks. Dwane Casey was unemployed for only weeks, going from the Raptors to the Pistons. David Fizdale was fired early last season by the Grizzlies and hired by the Knicks. Steve Clifford was dismissed by the Hornets at the end of the season and got right back into it by taking over the Magic.

The five other teams all hired coaches who were NBA assistants last year, two of whom with recent interim head coaching experience. The Grizzlies hired J.B. Bickerstaff, who spent most of the season as Memphis’s interim head man a couple years after doing the same for the Rockets. James Borrego was Orlando’s interim head coach in 2015 before heading back to the Spurs’ bench. The Hornets brought him as the new head coach this summer.

The Raptors stayed internal by promoting assistant coach Nick Nurse to the big job. The Hawks, facing a rebuild, hired assistant coach Lloyd Pierce from the 76ers. And the Suns, who’d fired Earl Watson all the way back in October after three regular season games, hired Jazz assistant Igor Kokoskov, himself a former Phoenix assistant.

Nine hirings, all marked with long NBA coaching resumés.

Frankly, few top candidates even seemed in strong contention. Even most unorthodox candidates are actually finding their way into the traditional pipeline. Becky Hammon, who has now been an NBA assistant coach for four years, drew a lot of attention after being interviewed for the Bucks job. But she’s in the NBA coaching pipeline.

The same applies to Jerry Stackhouse, who has been serving as a head coach in the G League until this summer, when he was a top candidate for a couple of jobs. (He eventually took a lead assistant job with the Grizzlies).

There is seemingly no expectation for players to jump straight from the court to the lead chair on the sidelines at this point. Perhaps Fisher’s disastrous rein in New York and Kidd’s two bad break-ups have quenched that thirst. Note, too, that Luke Walton spent a couple of seasons as an assistant in Golden State before his star turn running the Lakers.

Sarunas Jasikevicius received a long look from the Raptors, following the Blatt mold somewhat. (Jasikevicius, a legend in European and world basketball, did briefly play in the NBA.) Jay Wright and Tom Izzo were the focus of rumors, at the very least. But in the end, the jobs went to the NBA professionals, not outsider candidates.

It’s interesting that every team went in this direction. The availability of Casey, Budenholzer, Fizdale, and Clifford — all highly respected, somewhat accomplished NBA head coaches who had simply worn out their seats with their old teams — shaped the offseason hiring spree, certainly. But given Kerr and Stevens’ enormous success and the lasting impression of Gregg Popovich, hired out of the front office more than two decades ago, it’s a surprise that teams are going with those who have paid their dues instead of trying something outside the box.

Perhaps the memories of the experiments gone wrong — like Fisher, like the litany of failed college coaches, like Blatt to some extent — are stronger than the belief in any outsider candidates right now. But some team will cut against the grain again soon, and it’ll be interesting to see how that coach’s success or failure shifts the paradigm in hiring.

(One final note, a positive: four of the nine hired this summer are coaches of color, something the NBA has been struggling with in recent years. Two of those, Pierce and Bickerstaff, are first-time NBA head coaches who did not play in the NBA — a huge blind spot in NBA coaching over the past decade plus. This is progress in the form of expanded opportunity.)

[terryblount]

Video: Optimizing collision detection in Titanfall

In this 2018 GDC talk, Respawn Entertainment's Earl Hammon explains how the Titanfall team made already optimized continuous collision detection code more than twice as fast. ...

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[dpinoycosmonaut]

WOMEN POWER IN THE NBA

by Bert A. Ramirez / October 10, 2018

               The 2018-19 NBA season is just a week away, but one thing that has inconspicuously developed going into the league’s 73rd season is the increased role that women play in the male-dominated pro loop’s state of affairs.

               Yes, the NBA hasn’t only turned global after that iconic Dream Team swept the world off its feet with that dominating performance in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, but it has also increasingly become one of the leading advocates for racial and gender equality in recent years.  Proof of this is its having earned just recently an “A+” rating for racial hiring practices and a “B” for its gender hiring practices from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports, an institute at the University of Central Florida that “serves as a comprehensive resource for issues related to gender and race in amateur, collegiate and professional sports.”

               The ratings put the NBA “significantly above” other professional sports like Major League Baseball and the National Football League, despite what the report’s author, Richard Lapchick, said was a decline for the third straight year in the number of women hired among NBA teams.

               Two of the biggest examples of women having assumed a more significant role on NBA clubs are the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs.  The Lakers, of course, have for their president the charming Jeanie Buss, the daughter of their iconic late owner Jerry Buss who took over control of the team’s operations from her recalcitrant brother Jim after an earlier dispute with the team’s erstwhile executive vice president for basketball operations.  The Spurs, on the other hand, have the highest-ranked female coach in the league after their equally widely-admired coach Gregg Popovich promoted assistant coach Becky Hammon during the offseason as his chief assistant.

               “I think there just has to be more, more of the same,” said Popovich about the hiring of the former WNBA All-Star-turned-NBA coach.  “There are more Beckys out there, they just have to be noticed and given the opportunity by people who are wise enough and courageous enough to do it and not just sit in the old paradigm.”

               One team that has definitely tried to shift from the old paradigm is the Dallas Mavericks, who now have eight women among 18 leadership roles after a sex scandal where former president Terdema Ussery, who spent 18 years with the team before moving to Under Armour in 2015, and website reporter Earl Sneed were accused by female employees of sexual harassment.  The cases of the two were the subject of a Sports Illustrated report that described a hostile work environment for women in Dallas, forcing them to leave the sports sector because of a structure that left them feeling vulnerable and devalued while supposedly protecting powerful men who misbehaved.  Two women claimed Ussery harassed them for years, citing incidents ranging from inappropriate remarks to requests for sex to touching women's calves and thighs during meetings.

           "Obviously there's a problem in the Mavericks organization and we've got to fix it," Mavs owner Mark Cuban told the magazine even as he was also accused by certain quarters of covering up his people’s shenanigans.  "I'm embarrassed, to be honest with you, that it happened under my ownership, and it needs to be fixed."

               Well, one way that Cuban thought of to make up for the scandal is by empowering more women in the Mavericks organization.  He hired former AT&T senior executive Cynthia Marshall as CEO and president last February and promoted four women to executive roles, turning an organization that did not have a single female in an executive role into one with the most in the league thus far.

               The Associated Press also conducted a survey among NBA teams and found out they’ve already been holding seminars on workplace conduct and putting women in leadership roles.  A large part of this is due to NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s own efforts, making it known in no uncertain terms to all 30 franchises that he believes they need to hire more women, including jobs with power, in the wake of the Mavs’ scandal. The NBA, in fact, intends to hold an event at the All-Star break in Charlotte, North Carolina, this February to grow the “pipeline of female talent in basketball operations roles.”

               Lapchick himself believes having more women assume responsibility in the NBA is a combination of efforts by both the NBA and its ballclubs.

               “Teams saw the results in Dallas with no women in leadership to stop/confront bad behavior, which I believe is not uncommon toward women in the workplace in and out of sport,” Lapchick said.  “Adam (Silver) has the respect to push and I am impressed by the NBA’s actions after the decline in gender grade when the Report Card was published followed by the post-investigation in Dallas.”

               Clearly, things are looking up as far as women getting their due in the NBA is concerned, and it’s a combination of circumstances and the proper response that’s doing the trick. (Photo by The Associated Press)

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Becky Hammon interviewt Milwaukee Bucks

CAITLYN SAMPLEY / AGGIEHammon macht Geschichte trotz des Ergebnisses Nachdem Becky Hammon 2014 die Glasdecke sprengte und die erste Assistenztrainerin der NBA wurde, hat sie die Geschichte der NBA erneut in die Geschichte aufgenommen. Hammon, die sich vor ihrem Training als 15-jährige sowohl in der WNBA als auch in der Übersee-Liga einen Namen machte, wurde die erste Frau, die für einen Cheftrainerjob in der NBA interviewt wurde. Obwohl der Job schließlich an den ehemaligen Cheftrainer von Atlanta Hawks, Mike Budenholzer, ging, war die Tatsache, dass Hammon interviewt wurde, ein wichtiger Schritt in Richtung einer Liga, die sich wirklich als inklusiv bezeichnen kann. Obwohl männliche Trainer wie die NBA-Legende Bill Laimbeer in der WNBA an der Tagesordnung sind, hat die NBA nur langsam die gleiche Inklusivität angenommen. Abgesehen von Hammon sind die Sacramento Kings das einzige andere Team, das Trainerinnen eingestellt hat. Die ehemalige WNBA-Spielerin und Trainerin Jenny Boucek hat sich als Trainer für Spielerentwicklung engagiert. Vor Boucek arbeitete die Basketball Hall von Farmer Nancy Lieberman 2015 eine Saison lang auf der Kings Bank. Vor ihrem kurzen Aufenthalt in der NBA war Lieberman als Cheftrainer der NBA D-League (jetzt die G-League) Texas Legends und ist Es war geplant, die erste weibliche Cheftrainerin in der Big3-Basketball-Liga von Ice Cube zu werden, da sie vom Team Power im März eingestellt wurde. Obwohl der Vorgang des Interviews mit einem Coach oft ein ereignisloser Prozess ist, in dem viele verschiedene Leute berücksichtigt werden, bekam Hammon wegen seiner historischen Bedeutung viel mehr Aufmerksamkeit als der durchschnittliche Kandidat. Einige davon waren positiv, und der aktuelle Spurs-Cheftrainer Gregg Popovich sprach Hammons Zukunft als Cheftrainer in der Liga an. Spurs Center Pau Gasol, der die letzten zwei Spielzeiten unter Popovich und Hammon gespielt hat, hat Hammon auch in einem Stück, das er für The Players 'Tribune geschrieben hat, seine Unterstützung ausgesprochen. Während viele Menschen in der Liga und der Sportwelt sich für Hammons Zukunft als Trainer aussprachen, sprachen andere schnell gegen die Meinung. Während Interviews selten diese Menge Aufmerksamkeit erregen, begannen Leute über das Internet und in den Medien zu behaupten, Hammon würde „in der Schlange“ über Männer gehen, die sie als qualifizierte Kandidaten ansahen, was eine Debatte darüber entfachte, ob Hammons vier Jahre unter allen stehen Als Head-Coach und 15-jähriger Profi-Spielerin konnte sie ein solches Interview rechtfertigen. Als Reaktion auf die Kontroverse nahm der freimütige ESPN-NBA-Analyst Amin Elhassan an der Dissektion teil und twitterte seine eigenen Bedenken über Hammons Interview: „Es ist nicht so schwer. Nennen Sie den letzten Chefcoaching-Kandidaten mit / – ohne vorherige NBA-Erfahrung / – ohne vorherige bedeutsame Coaching-Erfahrung / – weniger als 5 Jahre Assistenz-Coaching-Erfahrung, von denen alle aus der zweiten Reihe stammen. “ Der Weg zum Cheftrainer der NBA ist schwierig, und die meisten Spieler und Assistenten werden ihn nie erobern. Obwohl Hammon mehr Zeit auf eine NBA-Bank gelegt hat als jüngst gefeuerte Trainer wie Jason Kidd und Earl Watson bei ihren ersten Head-Coaching-Jobs eingesetzt haben, ignorieren viele ihre bisherigen Leistungen und Erfahrungen auf eine Weise, die männliche Kandidaten am häufigsten nicht tun Gesicht. Bis jetzt hat kein Männer-Team in einer der vier besten Sportarten in den USA jemals eine weibliche Cheftrainerin eingestellt, und während Hammon diese Glasdecke irgendwann brechen wird, wird der Weg dorthin immer mit Widerstand konfrontiert sein. Geschrieben von: Bradley Geiser – sports@theaggie.org

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下一個太陽隊總教練人選盤點，Steve Nash 有望成黑馬？

鳳凰城太陽隊總經理 Ryan McDonough 正式展開他找尋下一位太陽隊總教練的任務，畢竟現在 19 勝 57 敗的太陽隊，除了消化完最後比賽外，實在沒有什麼其他的事要做。在 2017-18 賽季開打後三場比賽，當時的總教練 Earl Watson 就被球團炒魷魚，黯然離隊。而接手的代總教練 Jay Triano，根據 McDonough 的說法，也是有機會被球團扶正成正式總教練。

NBA 目前有三個總教練的職缺，分別是太陽隊、公鹿隊、以及灰熊隊。而這三支球隊各有各的賣點。公鹿隊在擁有「字母哥」Giannis Antetokounmpo 這位明日之星坐鎮下，在東區的未來令人期待。灰熊隊很有可能會在這次選秀選進一位頂級新秀大物，可以成為球隊的新一代核心。太陽隊則是擁有不少年輕且具有天份的球員們，等著被發掘。所以除了 Triano 之外，我們列出了幾位 McDonough 可以或是必須考慮的人選。以下我們分為熱門、可能、及黑馬三個組別來一一介紹。

★熱門人選

★Mark Jackson

「阿母，快出來看神喔！」（Mama, here comes that man!）

如果能夠聽到 Mark Jackson 在場邊被收音到他喊出他在轉播時的口頭禪，那該有多有趣？自從金州勇士隊在 2014 年球季之後把在過去三年戰績 121 勝 109 敗的 Jackson 開除之後，就一直被外界期待能夠重新成為總教練。雖然他的成績並不如 Steve Kerr 亮眼，但是他的名字還是常跟任何一個職缺討論在一起。

Mark Jackson 最讓人注目的就是他替勇士隊所打造的防守戰術。Kerr 在受訪時也提到他從進入勇士隊之後到現在，他從來沒有去調整任何 Jackson 留下的防守戰術。對於聯盟防守最差的太陽隊而言，Mark Jackson 會是一個相當好的人選。如果他們想要擺脫連續三年都是聯盟防守倒數五名內的慘澹紀錄，Jackson 能帶來的觀念及戰術，或許是他們所需要的。

★Jeff Van Gundy

Jackson 在 ESPN 轉播的搭檔 Jeff Van Gundy 如果也跟著 Jackson 去搶同一個職缺的話，這會是一齣驚心動魄，值得我們追蹤的好劇。JVG 自從 2007 年離開 NBA 之後，就一直被外界傳言提及。Van Gundy 的招牌防守同樣也是引人注目。在他執掌兵符的 11 年中，只有一次為能夠打造出聯盟前十的防守，而那一年他只待了 19 場比賽。

早在 2016 年，外界就傳言 JVG 對某個球隊的職缺有興趣，但是他希望能夠除了擔任總教練以外，能夠像在底特律活塞隊執教的哥哥 Stan 一樣，能夠主導球隊運作。（哥哥有的，我也要！）但是身兼二職的總教練在 NBA 已經越來越罕見，而在 Doc Rivers 本季專職總教練之後，全聯盟也只剩下 Stan Van Gundy 以及明尼蘇達灰狼隊教頭 Tom Thubodeau 兩人有這麼大的權力。太陽隊會不會因此而卻步？時間會給我們最明確的答案。

★可能人選

★Monty Williams

上一次紐奧良鵜鶘隊在 2015 年進入季後賽的時候，他們的總教練就是 Monty Williams。Williams 在鵜鶘隊執教期間，可以說是屋漏偏逢連夜雨。一方面是傷兵不斷，另一方面是總經理 Dell Demps 不斷將選秀權送出去換來年輕���是成長有限的老將。鵜鶘隊打進季後賽的當晚，NBA 權威記者 Adrian Wojnarowski 就報導這兩人與球團在開季之前，就簽下了必須打入季後賽的條款。結果 Demps留下了，但 Williams 則被炒了。不用太多的解釋，我們都看得出來這兩位之間的關係是多麼緊繃。

現在身在馬刺隊高層的 Williams，在執教上並沒有太順利的開端。但是他培養年輕球員以及與他們溝通的能力獲得了讚賞。而太陽隊目前先發五人只有一位年齡達到可以租車的法定標準時，Williams 對於年輕球員的專長，會是他的一大賣點。

★David Fizdale

Fizdale 在灰熊隊僅僅只待了 101 場例行賽就在去年十一月被開除了。跟 Williams 一樣的事，Fizdale 遇到了傷兵以及球員組成的問題（Chandler Parsons 雙項入圍）。但是與 Williams 不同的是，Fizdale 在灰熊隊必須要與心情不滿的 Marc Gasol 斡旋。在戰術上，Fizdale 讓 Mike Conley 成為了場上指揮官，讓灰熊隊的進攻多了速度以及空間的運用。但是後來 Conley 就因傷報銷了，而 Fizdale 也就這樣被趕出灰熊隊了。不過，受到眾多球員尊重的 Fizdale 自從那一刻，就成了熱門的總教練人選之一，而太陽隊勢必也會將他納入考量當中。

★黑馬人選

★Steve Nash

在開除了 Watson 之後，太陽隊大概短期內不太敢將總教練的職位交付給沒有執教經驗的候選人，即使是太陽隊史上最受歡迎的球員之一的 Nash 也是如此。但是如果太陽隊老闆 Robert Sarver 願意賭一把的話，那這位和他一起合買足球隊的傳奇就是不二人選。

Nash 正在勇士隊擔任球員培訓顧問，且這剛好是他的第二個球季。根據媒體報導，太陽隊在 Nash 接受勇士隊雇用之前就有與他接觸，洽談總教練的職缺。雖然當時的 Nash 經驗不足，但是這一兩年的經驗，加上他所獲得的冠軍戒指，可能讓��重新回到鳳凰城的機率提高了也說不定。

★Becky Hammon

這位 WNBA 的傳奇名將，以及現任的馬刺隊助理教練，或許沒有任何的執教經驗，但是四年來跟 Gregg Popovich 合作的時間，就彷彿是修了四年的大師班一樣。Hammon 最近才剛拒絕了母校科羅拉多州立大學的邀請，而選擇繼續在馬刺隊教練團服務。

在職業賽場奮戰多年的 Hammon 雖然在執教經驗上較為缺乏，但是也是被外界認為是個值得期待的新一代教練。而太陽隊這種年輕球隊，或許也需要這種活力。再來，如果能夠看到一位女性擔任 NBA 總教練，這也是一個值得關注的焦點。

除了這些人選以外，到底還有哪些候選人呢？無論下一位太陽隊總教練是誰，他所要面臨的挑戰不僅僅是執導球員，而是要怎麼有耐心地將這些年輕球員更上一層樓。或許太陽隊現在情勢並不樂觀，但是太陽隊如果能夠找到適合的教練，那麼他們重返榮耀的旅途，將會順遂許多。

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