KGdaBom wrote:winforlose wrote:KGdaBom wrote:Every game that every team ever plays they leave a lot of meat on the bone. Winning is all that matters. I might give a rat's ass about winning pretty, but not much more than that.
If you think I am talking about winning pretty, then you are not following my point. Exploiting mismatches and getting players to play to their potential is a sign of good coaching. Rudy had a massive mismatch and did not exploit it 4 out of 5 games. We need to exploit them against OKC or whoever comes out of the East. We overwhelmed the Lakers with our talent advantage, something I think we can/will do again to GSW. But, that only works when the team isn’t as good as you. OKC is every bit as good as us, so is Cleveland/Boston. For them we need good coaching or we are in serious jeopardy.
Whenever we don't play as well as you think we should you figure it is because Finch sucks.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Whenever we miss the natural opportunities that the matchup presents, that is when I lean towards it being the coaches fault. But let me give you an easy example to the contrary. Let’s say Rudy has 2 good games, 1 bad game, and 2 great games. well the bad games happen for everyone. Ant had a terrible game 5, but that is not in Finch, that is on Ant. But when the inverse happens and Rudy underperforms 4 out of 5 games despite obvious mismatches favoring him, that is structural.
When Ant goes hero ball in game 4 and we win that is bad process leading to a good result. The people responsible for the process are Finch and Ant (the guy who plans it, and the guy who executes it.) I have trouble giving Finch credit for when Ant goes rogue. Likewise I have no trouble assigning blame to Finch when hero ball fails because it is his job to prevent to from happening. So in that context he is in a lose/lose. Either he gets no credit for bad process and good result, or he gets a lot of blame for bad process and bad result. But, that also means he is blameless when good process leads to a bad outcome. That is the secret to good coaching. Setting up structures and schemes that lead to good process which more often than not results in good outcome. That is Pop 101 (good pass instead of good shoot leading to great shot.) I care about the process because we need it against the good teams. I said it before and I will say it again, we are way more talented than LAL, GSW, DEN, or HOU. We should win even with bad coaching and bad shooting.