clipperlover wrote:NippySudz wrote:They're coached well, monty is a damn good coach.
New Orleans choosing to hire the "Defense is optional" coach vice keeping Monty Williams is a big reason Anthony Davis is no longer there. Why would he want to stay with a team that wastes his defensive capabilities? AD will do very well under Vogel. Monty led a very young Pelicans team to the playoffs, but the Pelicans were enamored by Gentry's pace offense.
I truly think vogel is not long for this season.
Jason Kidd, Vogel, and Lionel Hollins are all sub .500 coaches and when it comes to under pressure in the playoffs, I jsut don't see how they can gameplan better than most of the western conference coaches.
My guess vogel gets fired (not his fault. He was dealt a bad hand. Not being allowed to hire his assistant coaches who may share the same philosophy as him as opposed to three different coaches with three different philosophies) and jason kidd takes over. Jason kidd gets exposed in the playoffs as a bad coach and the lakers don't get far.