Onus wrote:Anderson Hunt wrote:Onus wrote:Kerr has shown time and time again he is unable to coach Klay in a reasonable manner. It doesn't matter if he's coming back on a vet min he's getting 30 mpg. It doesn't matter how he plays. It doesn't matter how much he sulks. It doesn't matter how toxic he is. It doesn't matter how many team meetings they have to have. It doesn't matter how many player only meetings they need to have. This is no longer the right situation for him. No one is getting through to him on this team. And Kerr just enables this behavior by giving him unlimited rope to embarrass himself on the court.
I don't disagree at all. I simply believe that Kerr will change.
With a better constructed roster and more defined roles (less tinkering options for the coach), I believe Kerr will play Moody over Thompson down the stretch of games.
This roster just needs an enema, to trim the fat. Kerr will adjust to Thompson's inconsistencies as the roster is less clustered and becomes more streamlined.
What Kerr has been is not necessarily what he will continue to be. He's already began the process by benching him a chunk of games.
What makes you think Kerr will change? He had all year to change. He didn't close with Klay maybe 2 games this year and I think we actually won those games and he still went back to Klay.
I think he'll change because he's began the process by bringing him off the bench. He's already started changing. That's a huge step that can't be glazed over.
More important than that, the spotlight this offseason is on Kerr now. He knows, more than ever, that he must evolve, especially if Moody keeps improving (as he should in a contract year).
Kerr tried benching him and letting him close games. The next step, after trading Wiggins, is to start Thompson but to give way to Moody off the bench by letting him close games when he's out playing Thompson.