Mark Jackson’s Job as Warriors Coach Is Safe at LinesMaker

Mark Jackson’s Job as Warriors Coach Is Safe

Mark Jack­son is fin­ish­ing his first sea­son as head coach of the War­riors, an inaus­pi­cious debut due largely to cir­cum­stances beyond his control.

The War­riors decided to go into full rebuild­ing mode at the trade dead­line by deal­ing Monta Ellis for an injured Andrew Bogut, and are play­ing it safe by shut­ting down Stephen Curry and his recur­ring ankle prob­lems for the rest of the season.

The lack of avail­able tal­ent on the ros­ter should give Jack­son a pass in his first sea­son, and it will in all like­li­hood, reports Mar­cus Thomp­son of the Con­tra Costa Times (via HoopsHype):

Admit­tedly, it sounds a lit­tle ridicu­lous. Who would fire a coach one year into a three-year con­tract – after they doomed his chances in his first year by trad­ing away his best player.

But, for a team strug­gling to get 25 wins, nobody is 100 per­cent secure. Not to men­tion a cou­ple head­liner head coaches may become avail­able, which might make the War­riors want to nab one while they can.

Nonethe­less, I’ve assured by a cou­ple team sources that Mark Jack­son is safe – as safe as could be expected any­way. They won’t say that pub­licly – Joe Lacob, who would play the role of Don­ald Trump should Jack­son be fired, offered only a no com­ment. Still, it’s under­stood among man­age­ment that Jack­son will be back and Golden State exec­u­tives like the job he is doing. Some­one high up will say as much at season’s end.

Com­mon sense says Jack­son will be back next sea­son, even with­out this sourced report. Own­er­ship isn’t going to want to pay him for two years to go away, even if a big name like Mike D’Antoni or Nate McMil­lan were to express inter­est. Or, if an even big­ger name became avail­able in the off­sea­son – like Stan Van Gundy, per­haps – the team still would be hard-pressed to bite.

Watch­ing from afar, it seems like Jack­son has been just fine in his first sea­son as an NBA head coach – not defin­i­tively good or bad in any sit­u­a­tion spe­cific enough to war­rant effu­sive praise or criticism.

Aver­age doesn’t often get it done, and it can some­times get you fired, depend­ing on expec­ta­tions. Those, how­ever, are as low as they’ve ever been in the Bay Area to end this lockout-shortened sea­son, which is why we’ll likely see Jack­son back for a sec­ond chance next year.

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