In Len We Trust wrote:bwgood77 wrote:In Len We Trust wrote:I agree. They absolutely would. However, the media and experts never watch the Suns. The average one has seen 2-3 Suns games this year.
You can't compare the opinions of people that don't watch the games and pay attention to the coaching to someone that does. I know you watch the games, but perhaps you either don't pay attention to the coaching or are looking at it from a biased standpoint. I get it, Hornacek is a likable guy. Good player for the Suns, good guy to have around, but you can't be so biased when you look at what he does.
You also don't want to go against the popular opinion. Hornacek is currently viewed as a good coach by the majority, and you can't really accept the unpopular opinion.
I have ZERO problem going against the popular opinion. I understand some of the frustrating things Hornacek does. I watch A LOT of teams in football AND basketball and I see tons of boneheaded decisions all the time.
I look at everything relatively speaking.
I think many of the guys like Lowe, Simmons, Elhassan, Pelton and others watch the Suns quite a bit. And the national guys see their fair share of every game because they are in studio with them all on.
A lot of the basketball guys watch ALL the games on replay FF. I follow many of them on twitter and see them comment about these things on occasion.
I agree about Len. I want him to get more minutes. I don't want to see Plumlee play...maybe sparingly if needed. Len seems to be a MAJOR disruption on defense when he is in there.
But I don't think we are seeing things that Hornacek isn't. I think he is doing things for a reason. I think if we were able to sit down and interview him we would probably come away with some understanding and be like "Oh, ok....I kind of understand his thinking."
I think he is a lot smarter at this stuff than anyone posting here. Even you, believe it or not.
So he is doing things for an apparently good reason, even though nobody here, including his defenders like you can't even come up with a possible explanation?
I see no reason as of right now to trust Hornacek when he is directly responsible for half of the Suns losses this season.
None of us here know the dynamics of the locker room, mistakes people make, etc. You should read more of Los Soles posts. He has demonstrated how much more effective our team has been with Kieff at the 5. Should that be the case against bigger teams like Memphis? I don't know. I don't have the numbers of how things work when we force teams to adjust to what we do, etc. I haven't really dove into the details like people like Los Soles do. I know none of you guys against Hornacek have either, at least I've never seen anything here that provides concrete evidence. I just see knee jerk reactions.
We may have ever even been in half of the games we ended up losing if Hornacek didn't coach the team up to the point. We have blown some leads and we've made some great comebacks, as all teams do. Some of it might be on Hornacek, but much of the responsibility lies on the players. He can get a team ready, but he can't force them to make shots, or necessarily make great decisions every time they have the ball.
Your black and white view is childish.
