FrenchMinnyFan wrote:Loaf_of_bread wrote:shrink wrote:How do you think an NBA coach can do that?
Well first of all, ANTs antics are a bad look on the organization as a whole. As well as a bad look amongst his teammates.
Our future is dependent on ANT. Likelihood of winning a championship with your best player being immature is none. ANT HAS to lead.
There are ways Finch can send this message... unfortunately he isn't capable.
It's not like "oh, let's sit down, and have a heart to heart" .. Finch just doesn't have the "it" factor when it comes to being cold, quiet, ruthless...like popovich is.. ANT needs that approach imo.
I agree. In all business, you have to deal with big EGO. This is acceptable to a point where it penalize the group and in this case, as a coach , manager, you have to take action. Ja make a lots of mistake, Grizz make him accountable ( and support him outside court as well) to help him becoming a better person. Why Finch and TC are unable to do the same?
(If you are talking about both gun incidents, Silver held Ja accountable, not the team or coach)
I don’t see the overall point at all.
In the NBA, coaches have far less control over their players than in college or CEO’s in other businesses. Fans buy tickets to see the players play, not the coaches coach. Star players like Ant have salaries that dwarf coaches salaries, and their contracts are guaranteed, and are going to count against the cap. Players realize this, and they know they can go to the owner and demand coaches be fired - several players are whispered to be “coach killers.”
It sounds like people think Finch is only using the carrot, and needs to use the stick. NBA coaches don’t get to use the stick, and from what we’ve always heard, Ant likes Finch DESPITE the fact that he coaches him hard, and gives him as much stick, or more, than the other players.
Finally, I feel like a certain section of our fanbase just scapegoats Finch for anything they don’t like. If Ant doesn’t develop his passing, that’s on Finch. If Ant does develop his shooting, that’s all Ant. Naz develops in virtually every area from an undrafted player to 6MOY, that’s on Naz, but if he lags in rebounding, Finch isn’t “a good developmental coach.” People complain that Finch isn’t developing Dillingham and Minott, but after any game we lose, playing more talented and experienced players, they want Finch fired too.
I’m not saying Finch doesn’t make coaching mistakes. He does. And he admits them, in postgame conferences. I am saying though that the bar people are setting for an NBA coach isn’t realistic.