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Sources: Pistons' Lowe agrees to coach NC State
ESPN.com

Pistons assistant coach Sidney Lowe has agreed in principle to take the head coaching job at North Carolina State, replacing Herb Sendek.

Multiple sources told ESPN.com that Lowe informed Pistons GM Joe Dumars and coach Flip Saunders of his decision Thursday morning.

North Carolina State offered Lowe, a point guard on NC State's 1983 national championship team, the job after the Pistons eliminated the Milwaukee Bucks 4-1 Wednesday night in the first round of the NBA playoffs.

Lowe said he will stay with the Pistons until the end of the NBA playoffs.

A news conference to introduce Lowe has not been announced yet.

That's too bad. Sidney is always fun to watch at halftime when he gives his analysis of the game.

Good luck to Sidney.

He's going to have a crapload of pressure at NC State. That piece of crap "school" already drove out one good coach this year.

I'm happy for Lowe since he didn't refer to this as his "dream job" during the season. :)

Maybe Bill Laimbeer will apply for the job.

Maybe Bill Laimbeer will apply for the job.

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Sources: Pistons' Lowe agrees to coach NC State
ESPN.com

Pistons assistant coach Sidney Lowe has agreed in principle to take the head coaching job at North Carolina State, replacing Herb Sendek.

Multiple sources told ESPN.com that Lowe informed Pistons GM Joe Dumars and coach Flip Saunders of his decision Thursday morning.

North Carolina State offered Lowe, a point guard on NC State's 1983 national championship team, the job after the Pistons eliminated the Milwaukee Bucks 4-1 Wednesday night in the first round of the NBA playoffs.

Lowe said he will stay with the Pistons until the end of the NBA playoffs.

A news conference to introduce Lowe has not been announced yet.
lol@Sid lowe. no they lost one of their followers. goodbye, good riddens you bald bastard. :)

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Who cares.







Bye sid.

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Reports: Lowe to take N.C. State coaching job

Posted: 1 hour ago



RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Detroit Pistons assistant coach Sidney Lowe will return to North Carolina State to coach the school he led to a national championship under Jim Valvano.


It appears as if former N.C. State player Sidney Lowe will be returning to his alma mater as the head coach. (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)
N.C. State, which has searched for a successor to Herb Sendek for the past month, will introduce Lowe as its new coach over the weekend, a person within the Pistons organization told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The source spoke on the condition of anonymity because the school planned to make its announcement during a news conference Saturday.

Lowe was the point guard on the Wolfpack's 1983 national championship team under Valvano and ranks second among the school's all-time assist leaders and third in steals. Lowe, 46, declined comment when asked whether he had interviewed for the opening.

"Right now, my focus is right here," Lowe said Wednesday night as he walked onto the court while the Pistons were warming up.

He said earlier this week he would be interested in the job, but wasn't focusing on it as Detroit chases a second NBA title in three years. The Pistons concluded their first-round series against Milwaukee on Wednesday and will play the winner of the Cleveland-Washington series.

The hiring was first reported by The News & Observer of Raleigh and ESPN.com.

N.C. State athletics director Lee Fowler and Pistons coach Flip Saunders did not immediately return phone calls Thursday afternoon.

Saunders said most coaches, including Lowe, think about what it would be like to coach where they went to college.

"He's always kept in close touch with the program," Saunders said Wednesday.

The Wolfpack's top two targets - Texas' Rick Barnes and Memphis' John Calipari - reportedly turned down offers of about $2 million a year to replace Sendek, who went 191-132 in 10 seasons before leaving for Arizona State last month.

Last week, two more names linked to the job - former UCLA coach and TV analyst Steve Lavin, and West Virginia coach John Beilein - issued statements saying they would remain in their current positions.

Regina Davis, the mother of incoming recruit Larry Davis, said associate athletics director Jon Fagg had called the family to tell them that the new coach would contact them Thursday or Friday.

"We were being patient all along and we just figured we'd rather they take their time and get the right guy instead of making a hasty decision," said Davis, who lives in Deer Park, N.Y.

Sendek led N.C. State to five straight NCAA tournament appearances, tying the late Valvano for the best run in school history. But Sendek was criticized in recent seasons despite that success, often for the program's Princeton-style motion offense and its struggles against Atlantic Coast Conference neighbors Duke and North Carolina.

Sendek went 8-38 against those rivals, and went 9-16 against Wake Forest, the state's other ACC school.

Lowe, who has never coached in college, played four seasons in the NBA before moving on to coaching, rising to become the head coach at Minnesota and Memphis. He has a career record of 79-228 and resigned at Memphis after the team's 0-8 start in to the 2002-2003 season.

Lowe does not hold an undergraduate degree, which N.C. State has said it will require of its next coach. He is completing degree work at St. Pauls College in Lawrenceville, Va., the school provost confirmed Wednesday.

I'm gonna miss Sid.

I'm gonna miss Sid.
Why? he was mr irrelevent with the rest of the tag-along crew. Its like missing Darko while watching the championship parade.

already posted. are you high?

Best of luck to Sid

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Porter, meanwhile, has Kings ties and experience as a head coach, although I've also been advised by NBA coaching sources that -- after a year off following his ouster in Milwaukee -- Porter is a prime contender for Flip Saunders' staff in Detroit as the replacement for N.C. State-bound Sidney Lowe.

Heh heh heh... Sidney who?

Porter as an assistant would be the shit.

Porter as an assistant would be the shit.
yes. the bucks defense was monster under him.:o

Yeah his coaching really hurt all those defensive studs.

I really like Terry Porter, but I've never associated defense with him.

He's really a Flip Saunders clone- player's coach, really good at X's and O's, but not really a defensive mastermind.

I think he's a better coach than Terry Stotts, though.

Of course, that was never Sidney Lowe's forte, either. Sidney was the guy who customized a lot of our plays to fit the personnel. Terry Porter can do that job just as well.

Billy Laims wouldn't take an assistant job would he?

Nor would I want him on Flip's staff. He's too much of a hardass for this team.

I have heard that Kevin O'Neil is likely going to be a scapegoat in Indy, and is still quite fond of Detroit, and the area. So I would suspect he might be brought back if he didn't burn bridges, although there is some minor rumblings he has expressed interest in being an Izzo assistant figuring he can work his way back to a HC job on either level.

How true the second part is I don't know, I know he and Izzo have a very good relationship though.

I know the poster who represents the highest order of Angels in their plural form isn't a fan of Flip and as he expressed in this thread he would like an assistant who isn't a Flip yes man, so IMO KO would be an ideal replacement for Lowe. What do you guys think about bring back KO?

I think that KO could bring balance to the staff, he will make guys be commited to defense and require accountability, while Flip can be the good cop and offense minded coach. I know KO is a hard ass but we need that kick in the butt if we win it all, so the laziness doesn't set in again.

Ben had his best defensive season under KO's defensive schemes. I wouldn't be against it.

I agree he thrived under KO, and I would think that if Ben was thinking that the team isn't as commited to D as they once were, bringing back KO would show Ben that defense is still the backbone of the team. I doubt Ben would leave but if he feels that Defese isn't as important he might bite on a strong offer, so I would bring back KO to appease any of Ben's doubts about his role.

I have also heard that NJ's HC Frank really wants KO to join his staff if he gets fired in Indy.

I've got no problem with KO as long as 1) he's not the head coach and 2) Carlisle isn't the ead coach. I also agree with the idea that it can't hurt to have a more defensive oriented member of the staff.