ATL - Road teams now up 5-0 (Indy, NYK, Den, GSW)

emunney · Post #341 » by **emunney** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:14 pm

Worthington's Law strikes again.

MVP2110 · Post #342 » by **MVP2110** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:16 pm

NBA teams are way too quick to fire coaches who have led them to a title. Insane

emunney · Post #343 » by **emunney** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:17 pm

I absolutely can not fathom why you wouldn't wait a few weeks. If you're convinced the coach is this unimportant, why even have one?

BUCKnation · Post #344 » by **BUCKnation** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:18 pm

I've never been super high on low on Malone, but from afar, he definitely seemed far down the list issues with that team/org.

Ron Swanson · Post #345 » by **Ron Swanson** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:22 pm

emunney wrote:I absolutely can not fathom why you wouldn't wait a few weeks. If you're convinced the coach is this unimportant, why even have one?

Kyrie and KD really were ahead of the curve...

Profound23 · Post #346 » by **Profound23** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:24 pm

So when does the media start with the "When will Jokic demand out?"

Or does that only work for Giannis?

Post #347 » by **MickeyDavis** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:25 pm

MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:I'll lose it if we hire Ham

+1000.

BroncoBuck · Post #348 » by **BroncoBuck** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:37 pm

I don’t think Malone is a tier ahead of Doc to be honest.

tydett · Post #349 » by **tydett** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:39 pm

BroncoBuck wrote:I don’t think Malone is a tier ahead of Doc to be honest.

He is, but that's because Doc is a bottom tier coach at this point. Dude has no interest in anything besides the paycheck and the status of being a coach.

Post #350 » by **ReasonablySober** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:41 pm

Coach killer Jokic.

German Athens · Post #351 » by **German Athens** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:46 pm

Denver looking for a new GM and Coach this offseason will make it tougher for us if we all get what we want.

Denver has a younger team with more future assets. I’d think the top GM or Coach would probably want to go there.

With that said, there’s probably more low hanging fruit with us to see a quicker turnaround.

chonestown · Post #352 » by **chonestown** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:51 pm

Must have not made earnings goals for Q1.

pifhluk23 · Post #353 » by **pifhluk23** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:53 pm

German Athens wrote:Denver looking for a new GM and Coach this offseason will make it tougher for us if we all get what we want.

Denver has a younger team with more future assets. I’d think the top GM or Coach would probably want to go there.

With that said, there’s probably more low hanging fruit with us to see a quicker turnaround.

It's also a significantly larger city/metro, better climate etc.

MikeIsGood · Post #354 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:59 pm

BroncoBuck wrote:I don’t think Malone is a tier ahead of Doc to be honest.

I wouldn't go that far, but I'm not convinced Malone is the top-tier that many think he is.

Would still trip over myself to hire him, though.

BroncoBuck · Post #355 » by **BroncoBuck** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 7:03 pm

MikeIsGood wrote:
BroncoBuck wrote:I don’t think Malone is a tier ahead of Doc to be honest.

I wouldn't go that far, but I'm not convinced Malone is the top-tier that many think he is.

Would still trip over myself to hire him, though.

I just think he’s become such a product of Jokic. Aaron Gordon is vastly underutilized in that offense.

Ron Swanson · Post #356 » by **Ron Swanson** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 7:04 pm

I'd have Malone below Jenkins for sure, but Malone is still a good coach that I'd confidently put in the top half. The question would be how much of the offense he ran was due to Jokic (they've been dead last in 3PT attempts in both seasons since the championship), and conversely, how much of the defensive struggles/scheme failings were due to, well.....Jokic.

FrieAaron · Post #357 » by **FrieAaron** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 7:07 pm

I just don't get firing coaches this late into the season unless something really bad is going on behind closed doors.

DingleJerry · Post #358 » by **DingleJerry** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 7:10 pm

FrieAaron wrote:I just don't get firing coaches this late into the season unless something really bad is going on behind closed doors.

Yea I went looking, Denver board here is non existent. But Den fans chiming in on main board have made comments along the lines that Jokic has basically quit on the team the last chunk of games as they've been losing. So who knows, but a lost locker room and/or Jokic clearly pushing for it seem to be the case.

soxperry · Post #359 » by **soxperry** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 7:19 pm

wtf...

only thing i can think of is are they trying to hire the former Memphis coach or something? to me, you only do this if you have a pretty good idea of who the next guy is and you want to start the process asap. baffling.

blazza18 · Post #360 » by **blazza18** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 7:27 pm

Calvin Booth did that interview with KOC for the ringer before last season where he was pretty full of himself and talked up how good his young depth was only for them to do nothing for two years haha.

Malone can be an arsehole but definitely didn’t expect this a week out from the playoffs. Weird timing again by a team.

That we weren’t the team to fire anyone weeks out from the playoffs is honestly a bit surprising.