dakomish23 wrote:I'm not sure there's a bigger indictment on Thibs than needing a dedicated medial thread
I'm no doctor but, there is one on here who has discussed this not too long ago. He agrees that Thibs is a mad man.
Playing a guy 42 minutes and then leaving him in late in a blow out after 37 minutes the very next night led to his injury. That same player said he was exhausted after the first game by the way. He suffers from a common overuse injury and he is playing the most minutes he has played in 7 years. Thibs was his coach last time he played this many minutes.
KAT and Brunson are the two most important pieces to this team. Brunson playing on a calf strain for a couple of weeks after playing on a bum ankle prior to that while also playing crazy minutes doesn't bode well for anyone arguing that it isn't Thibs fault.
The fact that we have limped into the playoffs every year under Thibs may also be a sign that he is hurting the team. The bench getting the least amount of minutes in 20 years might also tell you something is wrong. The fact that Thibs has ALWAYS run his teams like this is another sign there is something wrong.
This isn't the first time this has been a problem for Thibs led teams. Chicago and Minnesota fans have all said the same things many of us are saying. He overplays his starters and doesn't utilize his bench at all. We have seen it over and over the last 5 years. Why there needs to be a medical thread to have this discussion is beyond me. Like dakomish23 said, it's a rather telling indictment of the HC that we even have this thread.
OG hasn't played a full season in his career and he's playing 40+ a night and looks like he's toast the last few weeks. The entire team looks gassed in the 4th qtr too often for it to just be coincidence as well.
We have 3 guys in the top 7 most minutes played and I believe it was 4-5 in the top 10 at one point. Here we are in early January limping around trying to beat scrub teams and losing. We just watched a team that lost 5 of their best starting/rotation players go 10 deep on us and win a game we couldn't keep up in. That team was on a B2B FFS!
Again, I am no doctor but, the evidence has piled up into a mountain. Why is it so difficult to believe there is an issue with Thibs disgusting minutes distribution and lack of use of his bench? No other contender is doing this. I don't know if many other teams in general even do this but, it's been twenty years since a bench has been used this little. Most of the teams that are on the list are Thibs led teams.
We shouldn't need a medical degree to figure out what is staring us dead in the face. Something that has YEARS of evidence pointing to this problem. Thibs doesn't play his bench enough no matter who is on the team and, he overplays his starters way too much for regular season wins. His teams are always injured in the playoffs and he has never won a ring in his three stops. Not even with HOF/All Star stacked rosters that also fell apart under his watch.
Believe what you want but, circumstantial or not, the evidence is there. He doesn't give a fck about his players health. He doesn't give his bench enough time to build any chemistry and, he only plays them after his players get hurt. Then he expects them to start and/or play extended minutes immediately? We end up with games like the last three as a result. Missing key players and losing games we should win.
Thibs has lost me as a supporter after seeing KAT go down the way he did. It's like PTSD. 