darealjuice wrote:lilfishi22 wrote:darealjuice wrote:
Idk there's some context to those situations. Nurse seemed like he was also looking for his way out. Bucks fans have been calling for Bud's head for years, and they just lost 4-1 to the 8 seed. Monty might get fired, but I'd be a little surprised unless we get the doors blown off the rest of the series. Dude deserves a year not having to deal with NoMotivAyton lol.
A small but loud contingent of Suns fans has been calling for his job since he was hired and it's compounded even during the Finals run. I do think we've seen his ceiling as a coach though. I just don't think he's innovative or willing enough to make anything more than subtle changes which I worry will be what limits him as a championship level coach.
Small but loud groups of fans bitch about everything in every fan base, the noise around Bud went far further than angst on social media and realgm. We're probably not getting a positive reaction out of Booker or KD if Monty is canned either.
I don't think he's had a roster with flexibility to make significant adjustments in recent years. Ever since Dario got hurt we've had no actual power forwards and no big men that can play on the perimeter, we've lost all of our wing depth, Cam Payne forgot how basketball/got scouted out, and we've filled out our roster with guys like Shamet, Okogie, Craig, Lee, Ross, and Warren that wouldn't sniff the court on any other playoff teams. All while it being anyone's guess which Deandre Ayton is going to show up on a given night.
Frankly, I have a hard time being sold on fans knowing if Monty is "innovative" or not, it's not like have seen the playbook or know what's said in timeouts. Literally every team runs the similar sets these days, it's all execution. When we don't get caught up playing matchups, move the ball, and run the .5 offense that he preaches our offense runs extremely smoothly. Our defense has become very good under him despite guys like Booker and Ayton being known negatives on that end when he got here. We've consistently been top 10 on both ends with him. I think he's done a lot to make this team better that gets overlooked because people don't like Landry Shamet, and I'm not sold the grass is going to be greener.
Yeah, it really often happens when a coach does really well with a team and overachieves. The culture change he brought instantly changed everything and we became good and when we got Paul, great. Now I do give a lot of that credit to Paul, but Monty deserves credit too.
But if they lose a playoff series, no matter who they are playing, the Bucks who were like the best team in the NBA for 3 years, or lose a couple road games to the 1 seeded Nuggets, they call for the coach's head.
Same thing happened with D'Antoni who probably also often overachieved with a team and the actual talent many years, but would then lose in the playoffs, simply to a superior team (though without suspensions and Donaghy in 2007, probably win it all that year), but fans hated him too and wanted him gone...and thought we needed to focus on defense. So Kerr decides to bring in a coach to focus on defense, Porter, and they players all hate him and the team looks awful because they were built to run and to focus more on offense.
So we end up going back to D'Antoni's top assistant in Gentry who just ran the same offense, and get back to the WCF again.
