Keith Smart post game

[mccaffertyd]

Is it just me that wants to throw up everytime I watch this guys post game interviews? He has absolutely no idea what he's doing and all I keep hearing is excuse after excuse. I'm officially on board with the "Fire Smart" movement

[RIPskaterdude]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLrCh8-ezd8[/youtube]

[Dustin5566]

Is it just me that wants to throw up everytime I watch this guys post game interviews? He has absolutely no idea what he's doing and all I keep hearing is excuse after excuse. I'm officially on board with the "Fire Smart" movement

We were all there 15 games ago

[Call Me Geoff]

How Jimmer doesn't have a consistent spot in the rotation is baffling to me. He's one of the few guys capable of stretching the floor and opening things up for our bigs. You invest a lotto pick in a guy and don't play him. Good job Keith. You're a genius.

[boogie-reke]

The NBA needs to create a reset button.

Delete the owners, front office, coach, players - and just start from scratch.

[Inigo_Montoya]

“I knew I had to move him around because of multiple things but that was one reason,” Smart said. “And I knew slowly I would transition him back to the two, because I think his size and his ability to play defense at the two was a huge plus for us. Now, here he comes even falling back down again, to eventually getting him back to where he’s a really good, big point guard. And that was the whole process of how I look at things for him.”
Read more at http://www.hoopsworld.com/kings-evans-l ... VZMAyit.99

Poor Tyreke. I don't know which is worse: The idea that jerking Tyreke around from the 1 to the 3 to the 2 to the 1 is all part of Smart's master plan, or the possibility that he has absolutely no idea what he is doing.

[ICMTM]

If you read the whole article it makes more sense, but he's saying that Evans moving around was half a function of necessity but the other part to teach him to be a complete basketball player. Sure...I believe the necessity part, but the other part being a side effect not a plan. Smart just took the credit for it like it was plan A all along.

The one thing I took from that is they want Evans on the ball, which he should be.

[becorz]

Maybe I’m wrong, but I think that part of Keith Smart’s problem is that he is too…smart. By that I mean he understands a lot of the x’s and o’s of basketball really well. Listening to him talk about basketball, I think that you can tell that. The problem is that he wants to micromanage everything on every possession to make the x’s and o’s perfect. Sometimes Tyreke is best in an offensive set as a SG, other times as a SF, other times as a PG. Sometimes Jimmer needs the ball in his hand, others he needs to be ready for a spot up 3.

I think that Smart’s x’s and o’s knowledge is harming the Kings for two reasons a) the players don’t understand them as well as Coach Smart does, making some plays look awful even if they should work as drawn and b) Smart always wants to make changes to better fit his plays, effecting the rotations that no one can get used to.

Personally, I think the coach needs to learn how to stick with a group of people and slowly teach them everything they need. I think all players are capable of learning things, but coach is keeping them from doing so. Make a consistent rotation. Put players that are compatible with each other (Jimmer/Hayes, Brooks/Evans, DeMarcus/JT) and keep them together whenever you can. Make your x’s and o’s from there. I think this would solve some of coach’s issues…

[RIPskaterdude]

The problem is that Keith Smart is a good Assistant Coach, who is learning to be a Head Coach on the fly, with a bunch of young players who need someone who knows WTF he's doing.

[becorz]

Saw this story, thought it would be relevant for this thread.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/ ... n-offense/

[OGSactownballer]

Very well thought out and written article. Very much to the point.