god shammgod wrote:HEZI wrote:god shammgod wrote:
no offense but this is sort of a thing that people repeat that isn't really true. unless you think an awful lot of the coaches in the last couple of years don't coach modern basketball. because a lot of them are awfully similar to thibs and rely on a lot of the same principles.
there are legit complaints about thibs involving minutes played, his ability to forge relationships with players, giving players too much freedom on offense, etc. but this whole can't coach "modern basketball" thing is sort of a cliche that people just say. you're really saying you want more passing or more motion off ball or want to play at a faster pace. but you need the personnel for those kind of things. we couldn't play like the pacers with our roster and put their roster in the half court and they're not too good.
i don't know what your age is but the knicks had this idea once before. they hired don nelson and they were gonna stop running the offense through ewing and make anthony mason play point forward and change how they play. it didn't last long before they realized what a mistake it was. i say all that to say this, it might just be the case that jalen brunson can only really be jalen brunson if you let him dominate the ball.
Also another thing is, what does it say about all those other modern day coaches who lost to the Knicks? Let’s not pretend like we haven’t been winning 50+ games, getting 3rd seed and making it to the ECF while eliminating the defending champs who oh by the way play as modern of an offense as there is with the high volume of chuck and duck 3s they attempt.
Our offense brought balance but it’s not outdated. It’s become a copy cat league where everybody is now using analytics to play the same exact way but at the end of the day what wins is consistency. If your players bring consistency you will find success. Boston and Cleveland both shot themselves out of the series and then we did the same. We didn’t bring the same consistency offensively as Indiana and it had nothing to do with style but more to do with us not shooting well. Both KAT and Brunson shot terrible in game 6. Had nothing to do with offensive style or system when they both had success all year long. We have seen everybody have success in the system but what they failed to bring was consistency at least enough of it to overcome Indiana.
not to mention og couldn't really shoot the 3 all series
Game 6 we were trash. KAT really was a let down.
It was weird that our games were legit every other day. I wonder how we would have been with 2 days rest. Never the less, Carlisle is a good coach, possibly a contender for the actual best coach in the league at this moment, so I can't be too mad.
At the end of the day it's a make or miss league and we missed while they made.
We didn't adjust on the Bridges/Hali match up.
All that said, we win game 1, and it's a game 7 at home situation.
* We have a Brunson Burner™ * 
