The Short List

by Seth Pollack on May 19, 2008 2:48 PM MDT

Things are starting to feel like they are narrowing from the full complement of anyone-that-can-hold-a-clipboard-and-correctly-differentiate-an-X-from-an-O down to a short bus list of warm bodies.

The short list seems to be:

Terry Porter - who's already interviewed and would cement the already cozy relationship between the Valley of the Sun and Rip City

Elston Turner - coming to town Wednesday presumably for some reason other then 110 degree weather

Tyrone Corbin - just added to the list today and is reportable considered by those who talk about these reports and otherwise comment on such things as a well respected former player and assistant coach despite having lower name recognition then Sean Marks

Other names include:

the Mark Jackson "former broadcaster old-boy network" courtesy interview
the discounted and repudiated Kurt Rabis (eye sight is questionable)
Jazz assistant Phil Johnson (considered to have hair issues which are balanced by his awesome mustache but in fact was mistaken by rumor-mongers for Tyrone Corbin for obvious reasons)
Celtic's assistant and defensive "wiz" Thibodeau (name too difficult to spell to be a legit candidate)
and Paul Silas who has the most head coaching experience but is considered only qualified to discuss coming to the Suns in an Alvin Gentry aged wise man role
Marv Albert

Poll

Who's your choice to drive the bus?

Tyrone Corbin

7 votes

Elston Turner

4 votes

Terry Porter

42 votes

Marv Albert

33 votes

86 votes | Poll has closed

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Who are these people?

The only people on that list I would not be unhappy with as head coach are Terry Porter, Paul Silas and Alvin Gentry.

Can we get some proven candidates on the list. Why weren’t Kurt Rambis or Michael Porter interviewed ?

Steve Kerr, you are really starting to lose my respect.

"True glory consists of doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read".

by Pliny the Elder on May 19, 2008 2:58 PM MDT reply actions

Rambis isn't available just yet.

I’m sure the Lakers won’t allow Rambis to be interviewed until their season is done. I’d like to see him interviewed, too. Ditto Tom Thibodeau.

Of the current pool, Terry Porter seems to be the most promising, but I’d like to see some more names in there.

And, Phoenix Stan, my recent Suns fan friend, Tyrone Corbin was a Sun for two seasons. He came over in “The Trade” with KJ and Mark West. Better name recognition in the Lisboa household than Sean Marks.

by Mike Lisboa on May 19, 2008 3:43 PM MDT reply actions

I was in Gemany that year...

and for whatever reason Ty Corbin didn’t make my reading list…

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by Seth Pollack on May 19, 2008 4:04 PM MDT up reply actions

Fine, be in Germany that year.

I would love to see the reading list that somehow did include Ty Corbin.

And I was just being a Suns history snoot.

by Mike Lisboa on May 19, 2008 4:50 PM MDT up reply actions

Corbin

I liked the way he played. He was a hard nosed Curtis Perry type of guy. I wish we could know if the playing styles of these candidates translated to coaching style. If that was so, I’d want Silas for sure. He was the equivalent of a 6’7 Ben Wallace when Ben was winning DPOY awards and averaging 15 rebounds.

Corbin was a valuable bench piece, kind of like Matt Harpring.

By the way, wasn’t that a smoking trade? Besides KJ, they got West, Corbin, and the pick that became Majerle, and Andrew Lang. All for Larry Nance and Mike sanders. If Kerr could trade Amare for Chris Paul, Tyson Chandler, a #14 pick, Hilton Armstrong and a valuable sub, would you do it?

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on May 20, 2008 7:01 AM MDT up reply actions

Ty Corbin was a guy we traded

and like Mario Elie and Dan Majerle, we regretted trading Ty Corbin for the rest of his career.

I don’t know any of these guys enough as coaches to qualify them to drive the bus.

I’m pretty depressed about this list, to be honest.

Wondering what the skip-2-my-loo to do next with my empty summer

by ZonaFlash on May 19, 2008 5:09 PM MDT reply actions

Not traded

We did not trade him. Mnnesota selected him off of our roster in the expansion draft.

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on May 20, 2008 10:10 AM MDT up reply actions

Thanks Hawk.

Regretted it all the same. Never found a good replacement. We rolled through Kurt Rambis, Xavier McDaniel and a bunch of others who now escape me.

Wondering what the skip-2-my-loo to do next with my empty summer

by ZonaFlash on May 20, 2008 4:13 PM MDT up reply actions

Regrets

McDaniel was another huge mistake. We got him when his knees were shot for Eddie Johnson, who had 3 or four more productive years. We might have used him on the Barkley years, as well as Corbin’s defense and rebounding.

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on May 22, 2008 9:04 AM MDT up reply actions

Terry Porter

Only from looking at his picture, I vote for him. He’s got the determined Byron Scott or Nate McMillan look to him.

He was such a Suns-killer, though. I think I’d boo at the games for the first half of the season, just to get out all that pent-up angst. Then, maybe sometime after the All-Star break, I could give an honest evaluation.

Mmmmm ... Guinness

by JSun on May 19, 2008 9:34 PM MDT reply actions

Coaches

list looks kinda sucky so far. Hilarious list, btw Phoenix Stan. with coaches without a head coaching track record, it is really hard to tell who will be good, great, or crap. but the ones with experience are gone, or aren’t very exciting either. Seeing as how the Rockets coaching staff did a fairly incredibe job this year, (who expected that win streak? and mostly without Yao!) Turner may be a good one. I’d be interested to know how much of a role he played in getting that squad to play way above their abilities.

by tkired on May 20, 2008 10:04 AM MDT reply actions