Rather, it’s more about endurance.

Sarge doesn’t listen real good.

school teacher and basketball coach in Idaho. Below this paragraph is a link to an in-depth, informative Sports Illustrated article about Motta that was published on Armistice Day of 1968.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1081800/index.htm

By the time Motta got to Chicago, Johnny “Red” Kerr already headed off to continue his coaching career in Phoenix — as Jerry Colangelo brought him out west to lead the expansion Suns — but that didn’t last long.

Once Kerr returned to Bulls organization after the franchise’s original owner, Dick Klein, sold the team, ol’ “Red” did some grunt work for the new front office and finally settled in as a color commentator by the mid-’70s.

All in all, Motta — who’s one of the few NBA head coaches to have never played high school, college, or professional basketball, with Lawrence Frank being the most recent example of that — didn’t ever work for Kerr.

In fact, it was Kerr who later worked for Motta.

“I decided that I was going to call up Dick Motta who had replaced me as coach of the Bulls and recommend one of my PR guys for the job. So I called him up and did just that. In doing so, he told me that Pat Williams, their general manager, had left too. Dick was playing the role of general manager, but didn’t have time to do things in the front office. He told me that he would make the trades and do all the basketball-related stuff, but that he needed somebody to run the front office.

I said to Dick, ‘Funny that you mention it because that’s what I’m doing here with the Virginia Squires and I’m thinking of getting out.’

He says, ‘You are? Why don’t you come up here. Let me call you back.’

So he called back in about 10-15 minutes and said that he had just talked to Eric Worst and he wanted me up in Chicago at 10 o’clock the next morning to meet with him in his office. So I flew into Chicago, met with him and he offered me the job as business manager of the Chicago Bulls. I came back and did a lot of the stuff in the office and worked with Dick Motta. I made it clear to Dick that I didn’t want to coach anymore and that I hoped that he didn’t think that I was sitting in the office sitting over his shoulder. Coaching was fun and four great years of my life, but I was done with that. He assured me that he wasn’t worried about that and that I should just do what I had to do in the front office. So that is what I did, which is how I came back to the Chicago Bulls."

http://www.nba.com/features/kerr_070222.html

LMA needs to suck it up. For NBA finalists, the season is only half over in March re: the necessary effort and intensity required to win a ring

Pop can rest his 30+ year-old veterans because he’s won 4 titles and knows what it takes to reach thte top. OTOH, Aldridge is young and McMillian hasn’t won anything yet = play the big man and let LMA learn what it really takes to be a champion. If not now, then when?

even if it was best to leave.

Already spent some time with the Trail Blazers. Plays for Minnesota now, grabs 4rpg, spreads the floor hitting 40% of his 3’s. Has experience playing big minutes in Golden State last year after we foolishly let him go averaging 12ppg, 7rpg & 2 apg. He would be a nice young(relatively cheap) compliment to the paint dominance of Aldridge. (and Greg Oden’s power game if he is to ever get healthy).

Pick him up in a trade this offseason, sending Rudy to Minnesota(Which they will use as an attempt to lure Rubio). Also swap Luke Babbitt for Lazar Hayward just because I don’t think Babbitt can be an NBA player(Sorry Khan :)

another crummy injury.

I saw the part about lighter practice, but I am suggesting doing even less. Shootarounds in place of any practice.

we need the rest of them right now.

Minutes 36-40 probably take as much toll on LMA as minutes 0-35.

The world’s worst disasters occur when people are exhausted. TMI, Chernobyl, Bhopal, other major industrial catastrophies, all occur at night when people are not at their best. It always amazes me that physicians are compelled to work past exhaustion. There’s a limit to what anyone can endure.