While nothing is official, Brian Colangelo's glowing endorsement for Jay Triano has the interim head coach in a strong position to get the job permanently.

"He never stopped coaching, he never stopped preparing," Colangelo said of Triano. "I think it's safe to say, coming out of all of the player exit interviews, that to a man the players have a lot of respect for Jay, they respect his basketball acumen, they respect his professionalism, they respect his means of communication and they respect generally the way he leads this team."

"As much digging as I tried to do, I couldn't find anything negative about Jay and the job that he did and their feelings towards him. That says a lot, those characteristics that I just mentioned are obviously positive attributes of a coach and certainly would lend favorably towards Jay as a coach that has a very good shot at keeping the job."