NoDopeOnSundays wrote:snadler wrote:Let me first start by saying Thibs is not the perfect coach, but to read some comments that actually think a different coach under the same circumstances of players being injured throughout the season like OG, mitch, precious, deuce, including games missed by hart and KAT, that another coach would have this team say 45-16, as opposed to 40-21 is just foolish talk. Adding in the fact of it being basically a new squad together, you can argue their record is better than it should be. Any determination on this season and Thibs can not be made to the playoffs. If they lose in round 1 or make it to round 2 and get swept than the discussion of a new coach should be justified.
We can make a determination on Thibs, because it's always the same problems with the team regardless of what the roster is. We have given up open looks from threes since he's been here, we have always prioritized protecting the paint first and the perimeter second. The difference is that teams are hunting for threes and making them at a better rate than they did before. We've been top 5 in defense 1 time in his 5 years here, we've been 3rd, 19th, 11th, 10th and 19th. His defense hasn't really adapted to the shift in the league, last season before Mitch got hurt he had a 130 DRTG against the Celtics starting mainly because he kept defending Kristaps with Mitch and never ever tried anything different.
I won't be too critical of Mitch since he's coming back from an injury, but he had a 140 DRTG last night and that really wasn't his fault, it's that Tom's defense is always close to breaking when a team has a stretch 5, or an unconventional big like Draymond. It doesn't help that we don't do anything outside the box that other teams do to us. Jimmy is shooting 10% from three since joining the Warriors, you park Mitch/Our centers on him and have them help off, if Jimmy is going to make threes then as the Brits say "fair play" and you put OG on Draymond so he can switch whenever there's screen action. We don't do any of that, we negate our own center's impact by having Mitch on Draymond which is exactly what they want because it pulls him out of the paint. They were getting open look after open look from three in the first half, it was like shooting practice, if they shot even average from three we'd have gotten blown out in the first half.
I won't even get into how much a joke the offense is, it's simply talent based and nothing else. The stuff the Warriors were doing last night with 2 non shooters on the floor just blows us our primitive "sets" out the water. We are 6th in the league in frequency of shots coming 4-0 seconds left in the shot clock, which is very late, and 3rd in 7-4 seconds which is late. Also funny how Podz has more freedom on ball than Mikal
also the year the knicks were 3rd they had ridiculous luck in terms of 3 point shooting variance - specifically referring to teams shot a way lower percentage on open/uncontested 3 pointers than their averages. the defense still gave up a lot of open 3s, we were just lucky teams didn't knock them down.
RIP mags
