CDM_Stats wrote:DB23 wrote:To all the Kerr haters - who are some coaches you would like in his place?
To me, he’s still clearly a top 5 coach in this league. Most of the gripes about him have a point but way overrate some of our bench and youngsters and really are not being fair about the personnel issues we’ve had this year.
He isn't anymore, and it goes to illustrate the point that rosters make the coaches reps 99% of the time.
Take that RAPM stuff.. its about as useless as something could be in terms of present evaluation. Example - I've owned my car for 10 years. It breaks down today. I don't reference how well its ran the past 10 years to evaluate how good it is today. It's not relevant
Kerr was (is?) great at managing personalities, so when you give him a boatload of talent, he can do fine with it. He sticks to a gameplan, which is great when you have the talent edge. The Warriors dont anymore. If they want to win anything going forward while Steph is here, barring some miracle offseason trade, they need to actually be creative with their solutions. Adaptive in-game. He has not shown the ability to do either. He has, however, correctly chosen solutions provided by former/current HCs like Mike Malone, Alvin Gentry, and most recently Mike Brown. But now? It looks like Kenny Atkinson and the rest just don't have that in them, or maybe Kerr isn't listening. Either way, the buck stops with Kerr and he's leaving a lot of value on the table. And the team simply cannot absorb that margin of error anymore
And FFS this replacement stuff.. when Kerr was about to be hired, most wanted SVG instead. Why? Because no one knew a damn thing about Kerr. Or SVG actually. So my suggestion is John Smith. You dont know him but he's great. If not him, then another AC on a good team. He's also great and exactly what we need. He likes defense very much
To me it's a great indictment of his coaching career that the #1 thing most people say about him is he is good at managing personalities, and yet one of this players ran one player out of town and literally knocked out another lol