To be a successful coach in today's NBA you have to be an upbeat, communicator type. I don't see Parish as that. He should try to hook on somewhere as a big man coach and PR ambassador.
uh, don't you think that if Parish is not "upbeat and a communicator", then a PR job would be even worse for him than a coaching job ?
I don't much see Parish as a coaching type either, but that was part of what made him so great as a player. no BS, no pretense, no card tricks, just get in there and, along with some very under-rated skills, grind the other guy down. go back and watch 1984 - he simply beat Kareem up in the finals and he and Max won game 7 for us, plain and simple. not a bunch of trash talk either, but nobody ever messed with the guy. it's a shame he blew through his money and can't just enjoy his summer camps and be done with it.
personally, I am sick of the stepford coaches we see roaming the sidelines now in their $1000 suits both in the pros and in college. they look the same, act the same, coach the same. we used to have personalities who went their own way and didn't care about fashion or saying just the right thing to the press or about being a player's coach or about trying to be mysterious personalities (Phil "bandwagon" Jerkson) - they just coached, baby.