Glenn
05-31-2007, 04:03 PM
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Sources: O'Brien to replace Carlisle as Pacers coach
ESPN.com news services
Five weeks after firing Rick Carlisle, the Indiana Pacers have hired a new coach.
Jim O'Brien will be named the next Pacers coach, multiple sources told ESPN.com's Marc Stein. The team scheduled a news conference for 5 p.m. ET Thursday.
O'Brien previously coached the Boston Celtics, resigning in 2004 after four seasons, and Philaldephia 76ers, who fired him in 2005 after one season. His record in five seasons was 182-158; in three playoff appearances, his teams went 14-17.
Carlisle was fired April 25 after a season in which the team failed to make the playoffs for the first time in a decade.
The Pacers finished the season 35-47, their worst since 1988-89. Indiana was 29-24 shortly after the All-Star break but lost its next 11 games to fall out of the top eight in the Eastern Conference.
Carlisle's tenure was less about wins and losses and more about his struggle to manage talented but volatile players. He will always be linked with Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson, the two most prominent players in the 2004 brawl between Pacers players and Detroit Pistons fans. That brawl started the unraveling of a team that had the potential to make several title runs.
In the Pacers' first year under Carlisle in 2003-04, they went 61-21 for the best record in the NBA, and the club reached the Eastern Conference finals. But the Pacers lost more games each of the next three seasons and Carlisle ended with a 181-147 record over his four years since replacing Isiah Thomas.
THE RETURN OF THE LEPRECHAUN
I WANT THE GOLD!!!
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Sources: O'Brien to replace Carlisle as Pacers coach
ESPN.com news services
Five weeks after firing Rick Carlisle, the Indiana Pacers have hired a new coach.
Jim O'Brien will be named the next Pacers coach, multiple sources told ESPN.com's Marc Stein. The team scheduled a news conference for 5 p.m. ET Thursday.
O'Brien previously coached the Boston Celtics, resigning in 2004 after four seasons, and Philaldephia 76ers, who fired him in 2005 after one season. His record in five seasons was 182-158; in three playoff appearances, his teams went 14-17.
Carlisle was fired April 25 after a season in which the team failed to make the playoffs for the first time in a decade.
The Pacers finished the season 35-47, their worst since 1988-89. Indiana was 29-24 shortly after the All-Star break but lost its next 11 games to fall out of the top eight in the Eastern Conference.
Carlisle's tenure was less about wins and losses and more about his struggle to manage talented but volatile players. He will always be linked with Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson, the two most prominent players in the 2004 brawl between Pacers players and Detroit Pistons fans. That brawl started the unraveling of a team that had the potential to make several title runs.
In the Pacers' first year under Carlisle in 2003-04, they went 61-21 for the best record in the NBA, and the club reached the Eastern Conference finals. But the Pacers lost more games each of the next three seasons and Carlisle ended with a 181-147 record over his four years since replacing Isiah Thomas.
THE RETURN OF THE LEPRECHAUN
I WANT THE GOLD!!!
http://espn.go.com/i/columnists/obrien_jim_m.jpg