Comments on: Chuck Person: Pacers Legend, Lakers Mentor

By: Dwane Casey as the Pacers Next Coach?

Dwane Casey as the Pacers Next Coach? — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:02:14 +0000

[...] wrote about the Rifleman’s success in Los Angeles not too long [...]

By: Tim Donahue

Tim Donahue — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:42:00 +0000

It’s always about the players.

By: Mellifluous

Mellifluous — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:34:05 +0000

Again plumbing the depths of my memory, I think the situation was that he replaced Mike Brown as “defensive coordinator” and was subsequently blamed for the defense not being as stingy as it had been. However, it was probably the fact that Artest only played 16 games the year after Brown left that led to the downfall of the defense, rather than Person’s poor coaching.

By: Jay Ganatra

Jay Ganatra — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:17:51 +0000

Thanks Melliflous. Appreciate the support. With regards to Person’s history with the Pacers, Tom got it right: He was indeed a Pacer employee a few years ago. BTW Person Fun Fact: His dream job is to become the Head Coach at Auburn University.

By: Tim Donahue

Tim Donahue — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:07:58 +0000

Yeah, he was an assistant under Carlisle.

I don’t recall the prevailing opinion at the time, but the default opinion seems to be that no coach is incredibly successful as a coach, unless he’s not coaching your team.

By: Mellifluous

Mellifluous — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:40:53 +0000

Thanks. That was a really nice article and I enjoyed reading it.

Didn’t person formerly have some coaching duties with the Pacers? If I remember correctly, it seemed like the prevailing opinion (usually wrong, I know) at the time was that he was not incredibly successful as a coach.