{"id":75285,"date":"2024-04-29T01:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T05:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=75285"},"modified":"2024-04-29T01:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T05:22:57","slug":"hornets-closing-in-on-head-coach-who-should-they-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/29\/hornets-closing-in-on-head-coach-who-should-they-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets Closing in on Head Coach, Who Should They Choose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Hornets are closing in on their next head coach, with former NBA sharpshooter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/redicjj01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JJ Redick<\/a> and Boston Celtics lead assistant Charles Lee viewed as the finalists for the position, per Forbes Sports\u2019 Evan Sidery.<\/p>\n<p>Both Redick and Lee will have second interviews with the Hornets\u2019 brass, which is now led by executive vice president Jeff Peterson.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JJ Redick and Celtics lead assistant Charles Lee are viewed as the finalists for the Hornets\u2019 head coach vacancy.<\/p>\n<p>Redick, who has a strong desire to get into coaching, and Lee will have second interviews soon with Charlotte\u2019s front office to decide. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qcjYrYuMDe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/qcjYrYuMDe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan Sidery (@esidery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esidery\/status\/1784616811310223390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Hornets Closing in on Head Coach, Who Should They Choose?<\/h2>\n<p>Lee becoming a finalist for the Hornets\u2019 head coaching gig has been <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/04\/hornets-diving-into-4-head-coach-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">a long time coming<\/a>, as the 39-year-old is one of the most popular candidates around. He makes as much sense for Charlotte as anyone they could hire.<\/p>\n<p>A master communicator, Lee\u2019s life experiences allow him to connect to front office executives and players at a human level. As a result, he\u2019s the perfect go-between for a franchise that\u2019s in rebuild mode. Often, teams in that position have to operate with the big picture in mind, sacrificing short-term success for long-term gains. One example of this is when rebuilding teams play young prospects over established players. A coach such as Lee would have little issue understanding the backroom politics that influence the way he\u2019d be expected to coach.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, someone such as Redick may find it difficult.<\/p>\n<h3>Is Redick Equipped for a Rebuild?<\/h3>\n<p>A 15-year NBA veteran, Redick\u2019s experiences as a player have familiarized him with front office expectations.<\/p>\n<p>However, listening to him speak \u2014whether it be on ESPN, his <i>The Old Man and the Three<\/i> podcast, or the <i>Mind the Game<\/i> podcast \u2014he may be resistant to prioritizing player development at the expense of wins. Such a short-sighted view isn\u2019t problematic in the sense that coaches should <em>want<\/em> to win. Yet, being a head coach often requires a long view so that a team can have sustained success. This is particularly true during a rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the frustration of losing may bleed into Redick\u2019s relationships with the front office staff or his players. An intense personality, Redick has battled against his own co-workers when he felt the ship wasn\u2019t being steered the way he wanted it to go.<\/p>\n<h3>Lee Knows How to Win<\/h3>\n<p>The advantage that Redick has over Lee is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/22\/hornets-to-interview-jj-redick-head-coach-vacancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">one of playing experience<\/a>. It\u2019s also notable that from college to the pros, he played for several successful head coaches, including Mike Krzyzewski, Stan Van Gundy, and Doc Rivers.<\/p>\n<p>However, Lee has been an NBA assistant coach for 10 years, primarily learning under Mike Budenholzer. Winning a championship with the Bucks in 2021, Lee\u2019s only had one season in which his team didn\u2019t reach the playoffs. That said, it\u2019s unclear who has the higher basketball IQ. Nonetheless, Lee has demonstrated that he knows what it takes to win in the NBA as a coach. Redick has 110 games worth of playoff experience but his teams were never able to win it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Hornets are closing in on their next head coach, with former NBA sharpshooter JJ Redick and Boston Celtics lead assistant Charles Lee viewed as the finalists for the position, per Forbes Sports\u2019 Evan Sidery. Both Redick and Lee will have second interviews with the Hornets\u2019 brass, which is now led by executive vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":75288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1608,62,3],"tags":[49160,2279],"class_list":["post-75285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hornets","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-charles-lee","tag-jj-redick"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}