Prokorov wrote:GYK wrote:Completely disagree.
While I don’t think any of our stars are bad people or even teammates, they are certainly big personalities and he managed that circus better than anyone not named Phil Jackson.
Also guided by MDA his offense was amazing. Clearly a MDA philosophy clone it works pretty well. Multiple players found success. Players that were done or useless elsewhere were great in their role here.
Defensively we struggled. Rebounding as well. His defensive philosophy might work though. Considering how the Bucks offense looks going forward we will know for sure. We made two teams struggle offensively while being a known bad defensive team.
Steve/MDA could never be GM’s(pick roster parts) but they clearly know basketball very well. Speaking of which the off season is about getting as many two way wings/playable bigs we can get. We may question why they weren’t on the team or brought in. But how many good wings/bigs are just sitting home? Guards skills are just higher. You have a higher chance of finding decent bargain bin guards than anything else. Anywho Nash suffered from ingredients more than cooking skills. He shut down a great offense(while conceding we’re not gonna stop their best most dominant catalyst player). His GM inclination for team building maybe as crappy as MDA. But the ideas he present are just as great.
With that said he might not be great in certain situations. He’s not someone who panics he’s actually pretty reluctant to call timeouts or make philosophy changes. Someone who fully believes if we continuously run the course and only the course the returns net wins. Reason he never used our best rebounder and potential Giannis stopper, because those problems were not going get opponents the win(tho I argue if we rebounded well we would have been the best net rating in the league). He’s pretty great drawing up plays and identifying mismatches. Offensively always pointing out something useful to players. Probably could’ve used more box and 1 defense with our players but again he’s all about seeing the philosophy all the way through.
I really don’t think Nash is problem. Especially for the team he has. I can’t say who would’ve have done better. We just would’ve saw more DJ from any other coach(which may or may not have been positive).
Nash was and is an awful coach... and not only is he a problem, he is an enormous problem. He just cost us a title or at least a trip to the finals. Our offense was not good. It was just 3 stars abusing people. with real coaching, we would have been 10-15% better offensively, had more blowout wins, and been able to rest guys more in the 4th.
also, no one came here who was useless elsewhere and turned into something great, other then maybe blake who was clearly costing in detroit with 0 dunks in 2 years.
we lost at least 12 RS and 3 playoffs games on coaching
We wont win a title with steve nash as coach
How would quantify 10-15% better? The only reason we weren’t blowing out more teams in the RS is we didn’t have the rebounding personnel. His philosophy did lead to a top 10 opponent FG%, as in the 10th lowest. We certainly played good defense just giving up too much in rebounding. Pretty simple. Not enough playable bigs and wings to rebound well enough.
Mike wasn’t in the league, might not be in the league next season if not here.
Bruce played a style on offense literally never before seen and worked well on a team nobody relies on him. Disappears anytime he starts to get noticed by the defense.
Shamet actually played worse here than elsewhere.
Nic has always been but his hype is far greater here and would plummet elsewhere. He can’t participate in any big responsibilities such a rebounding or post defense.
Blake was terrible in Detroit and if his usage or had to take unassisted shots like he did there he would be back to trash.
Etc etc. if they leave they will be back to invalids. They weren’t good and could only start here because the mid season trade or maybe push up on a basement team.
Yea I don’t think you’re right. But you know it’s alright to have opinions. My opinion is that your greatly wrong. That we lost only due to health, only getting this far with two all time performances from Durant. Your opinion is despite health and roster limitations we blew it. Fair enough.
