Clutch Carter wrote:fatal9 wrote:There is absolutely no point in firing Casey, even though he makes a lot of amateur mistakes. Why turn your coaching situation into a revolving door when you don't have the talent to get anywhere? Wait to get legitimate talent and then reassess the coaching position. What's the point of hiring a good/proven coach to win meaningless games and get a worse draft pick?
And a lot of principles Casey has are shared by many head coaches around the league (like not trusting rookies to play with the game on the line, or making quick knee-jerk decisions based on bench guy outperforming the starter...seems weird to us because Sam Mitchell did it differently). I saw people yesterday in the game thread were critical of him playing JLIII and not Calderon. Jose played almost 40 minutes. Dude doesn't have a choice but to play garbage players like JLIII...that's what he's been given with this roster by the GM.
Jose played over 40 minutes because he decided to play Jose with JL3 with the two PG back court instead of resting him.
Then, by the time Jose gets back into the game, there is 5 minutes left, Nets well into their run and the game is effectively over.
His bench consisted of Ross, Lucas and Gray last night. You guys act it's a video game where fatigue isn't a factor. Jose played 40 minutes, DeMar 44, Ross played more minutes than Lucas, Peitrus almost 30 despite having issues with his knee flare up recently. He doesn't have a choice but to play these garbage players. His rotations in general have been amateurish but it's laughable that fans are turning him into a scapegoat when the roster is about as bad as it gets in this league. Some people are blaming him for their own unrealistic expectations for this team. No lineup decisions are going to look good in retrospect when the players on the roster simply can't deliver.
Even with Bargnani, I hate watching him play basketball as much as anyone and have been calling for him to get traded before most people here, but you can't just bench him in the first month of the season. You have no choice but to hope that things turn around, his shot starts going and he at the very least plays at the level of previous years so he can go from being an outright amnesty candidate to maybe being someone other teams might take a chance on. It's not realistic to expect a team with as little talent as the Raptors to just let a guy with Bargnani's contract waste away on the bench in favor of a young player still proving himself (and I agree that Ed Davis is a WAY better piece than Bargnani and has been better than him this year), doesn't look good around the league, especially when you're trying to trade the guy. I'd love for Casey to call him out after every game, but that doesn't help accomplish what all of us want, which is for Bargnani to be traded.
Jonas has been a defensive liability all season (and looks fatigued any time he clocks in more than 30+ minutes), he wouldn't see minutes in the fourth under a lot of coaches, it's a very basic protocol around the league for rookies to go through. Some nights people complain about him not getting minutes, and now recently we've seen posters turn on him and blame him for the team's poor defense (picking up on BC's talking points).
And even if he is a bad coach, what's the point of switching coaches now when there is no talent on the roster to go anywhere? First of all, no elite coach is going to walk himself into a situation that is arguably the worst in the league, those guys get offers from better teams with more promising roster situations. Secondly, what's the point of squeezing out the most number of wins out of a roster like this? To win 30 games instead of 20? Thirdly, 3 coaches in 3 years, turning the head coaching job into a revolving door is going to make other coaches that much more reluctant to sign with this mess of a team.