yoyoboy wrote:I agree about the Nets. Watching the heavily depleted Cavs play them yesterday and shoot like utter garbage all night yet still come close to stealing that game late in the 4th before running out of steam, it was so clear that they're just not that great of a team. Everything they do feels so unstructured. Nobody moves without the ball. Harden's careless as a passer. They're not a very athletic team.
So there's so much that's interesting about all of this.
Nets fans have their knives out for Nash as the coach, and understandably so, however:
1 - Nash is only the coach because that's who the players (specifically KD above all) wanted as coach, and that specifically meant they didn't want to be micro-managed...which is clearly how KD felt by Kerr in GS. As such, while that might mean that they need some different coach to be at their best, the issue isn't so much "Nash's strategy isn't working" so much as "The players' concept of how their ideal team should work isn't working".
2 - If you had Nash the player out on the floor, it would work. No excuse for Nash the coach, but again, the players really seemed to think that with their talent they could just go out there and improvise and that would be enough...and that really only works when you're really smart about improvising. These guys, I would argue, are being hampered, on several different levels, by the fact that they overestimated how smart they were.
