Suns fill out coaching staff

[Bayless2Budinger]

Suns lead assistant Alvin Gentry is expected to keep that role and work a fifth season on Phoenix's coaching staff, which likely will include Suns fan favorite Dan Majerle, former All-Star center and head coach Bill Cartwright and Porter colleague Igor Kokoskov

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/2008/06/19/20080619sunscoach.html

 

[HooverDam]

I don't know who that last guy is, but I'm a fan of anyone named Igor.

 

[YouJustGotSUNSD]

Igors don't **** around.

 

[TucsonDevil]

Dan Marjerle? Serious? I thought he was getting a sniff for the fans' amusement.

 

[mojorizen7]

Igors don't **** around.

Maybe he's Porters bodyguard.

 

[LV-Suns]

Igor was an assistant of the Pistons.

Igor Kokoskov

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College - Belgrade University
Igor Stefan Kokoskov enters his third season as an assistant coach with the Pistons after spending three seasons on the Los Angeles Clippers’ bench as an assistant coach (2000-03). Last summer, Kokoskov returned to his native Serbia and Montenegro to serve as a coach for the Serbia and Montenegro national team at the 2005 European Championships.
A native of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Kokoskov is the first full-time, non-American assistant coach in NBA history. Before joining the Clippers, he spent the 1999-2000 season as an assistant coach at the University of Missouri with Pistons vice president of basketball operations John Hammond. Upon joining the Missouri staff in the summer of 1999, Kokoskov became the first European coach to hold a full-time position with an NCAA Division I-A school.
Prior to Kokoskov’s move to the United States, he instructed Yugoslavia’s top amateur and professional players for eight years, including a stint as the assistant coach of Yugoslavia’s Junior National Team. In 1995, he took over the head coaching duties of BC Belgrade at the age of 24, making him the youngest head coach in the history of Yugoslavian basketball. Kokoskov returned to his native Serbia and Montenegro to serve as an Olympic coach for the Serbia and Montenegro national team at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
Over the past three summers, Kokoskov has served as an instructor at “Basketball Without Borders” and he also serves as an instructor at several other international coaching clinics in Africa and Europe.

http://www.nba.com/coachfile/igor_kokoskov/index.html

 

[Mainstreet]

The Suns add another European coach. I seriously like it. Like it or not the Europeans play a different style of game which IMO has positively impacted the NBA game. Now if only the NBA referees and the league FO would decide not to make a mockery out of it.

 

[Andrew]

Hopefully this staff can get them to play some defense in the weaning moments...

 

[nowagimp]

The Suns add another European coach. I seriously like it. Like it or not the Europeans play a different style of game which IMO has positively impacted the NBA game. Now if only the NBA referees and the league FO would decide not to make a mockery out of it.

Im not sure I like the idea of another euro. Does this mean that the suns intend to draft a euro?

 

[Irish]

Im not sure I like the idea of another euro. Does this mean that the suns intend to draft a euro?

Clearly this a guy Porter knows from the PIstons, so it's not like hiring a guy straight from the Italian League. Igor was an assistant on the Pistons since 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kokoškov

Igor Stefan Kokoškov (Serbian Cyrillic: Игор Стефан Кокошков, 17 December 1971) is an assistant coach with the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association. Kokoškov became the youngest coach in Yugoslavian basketball history shortly after suffering serious injuries sustained during an automobile accident that ended a promising playing career.
Kokoškov coached various club teams in Belgrade and was on the coaching staff of the Yugoslav (now Serbia) men's and junior national teams.

His savvy, ambitious nature and command of the English language were factors when he was hired by the University of Missouri as a part of their coaching staff in 1999, the first European to be holding that position in NCAA Division I.

The following year, Kokoškov became the first non-American to be hired in the NBA, as a full-time assistant coach, by the Los Angeles Clippers. In 2003 he joined the Detroit Pistons staff of coach Larry Brown.
On April 18, 2008, Kokoškov was named the head coach of Georgia national basketball team.

Kokoškov is a graduate of the University of Belgrade.

It appears that Igor was an assistant coach for Genrry at the Clippers before going to the Pistons.

 

[Mainstreet]

Im not sure I like the idea of another euro. Does this mean that the suns intend to draft a euro?

I don't think it means anything except Porter likes him and he adds to a diversified base of knowledge coming from the European side of the game. It's not like he does not have NBA experience. Go Igor.

 

[Mainstreet]

Clearly this a guy Porter knows from the PIstons, so it's not like hiring a guy straight from the Italian League. Igor was an assistant on the Pistons since 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kokoškov



It appears that Igor was an assistant coach for Genrry at the Clippers before going to the Pistons.

I'm beginning to like this little circle of trust that is building. I wish the Suns would at least put Hornacek in the FO if there are not coaching positions left. He is pure class.

 

[Irish]

I don't think it means anything except Porter likes him and he adds to a diversified base of knowledge coming from the European side of the game. It's not like he does not have NBA experience. Go Igor.

I just can't stop thinking of Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein. "Hump, what hump?"

 

[Mainstreet]

Except Dan Majerle and Igor Kokoskov, has every member of the Suns coaching staff been a HC? Talk about experience.

 

[Irish]

Except Dan Majerle and Igor Kokoskov, has every member of the Suns coaching staff been a HC? Talk about experience.

Since you talking about Cartright and Gentry, yes. Gentry is the only older guy and he's still not that old. This was something Kerr talked about.

I can't say that this group is exciting, but not discouraging either. Humprhies would have been disappointing.

 

[dodie53]

igor?
frankenstein's assistant?

 

[Andrew]

No Silas? I guess that was all a dream...