ibraheim718 wrote:I thought the players were more responsible for their performance on the court?
"Helped us" is not "responsible for". Pretty sure the coach that everybody respects and talks up and that our players call the best coach they've had and other players around the league saying the same is at least "decent". Yes, I do think he has helped instill a hard-nosed culture of defense and energy for this team.
These games down the stretch do not make me think differently because I'm not someone who wildly differs on opinions game after game like some people.
I've been posting actively since 2007 on this board in 90% of game threads and I've seen every iteration of coaching. I actively hated Skiles and was tired of Clifford by the end of his tenure, but whenever we had a team expected to be more than a tanking team, I realized that most things that people attribute to coaches are on the players.
I religiously read reddits of other forums. JB Bickerstaff should be fired according to Cavs fans. Doc Rivers is a fraud. Jason Kidd and Darvin Ham are terrorists. Steve Kerr is cooked. I saw Houston fans asking what Ime Udoka does for their offense and wanting them to hire a better offensive assistant coach. Knicks fans were on Thibs ass for years before the last two years. I follow Pacers fans that make post-game Twitter posts and half of them are calling for Carlisle's head when the team loses. Mazzulla is going to get a lot of smoke if the Celtics don't win it all this year. Spo just coached his team to a worse record than us this year with worse offensive stats.
So, maybe, just maybe.. I am starting to realize that every fan just default blames coaches and thinks they can make better rotational changes and X's and O's than people doing it for a living because of course they can.
Is there little things him and every coach can do better? Yes, especially Mose because he's still learning. But to act like the offensive system is terrible because of him not using the personnel correctly versus the personnel not being adequate enough is giving the front office way too much credit.
