buzzkilloton wrote:DTP wrote:Billl wrote:Luke sucking isn't Casey's fault. He's getting chance after chance and does nothing with them. He just floats around on offense. He's giving up tons of break chances because he doesn't cover the backcourt when the other guard drives. Defensively, he's not competing at all. If you are going to make it in the NBA as a marginal athlete, you have to be scappy. You have a to be a step ahead mentally, because you aren't going to make up for bad reads. You have to be the one dictating the action and contact because if the quicker player moves first, you aren't catching up. Guys like Reddick and Korver make it because they are forcing guys to react to them.
Fine....but what about everyone else on the roster (excluding Blake) sucking....is that not Casey's fault either?
Read this today: http://truckthoughts.com/blog/2019/1/10/the-fish-rots-from-the-head-down
So glad that there's at least one other person out there watching the game and not just focusing on the box score.
I'm sure its all Caseys fault that a roster that won 39 wins last game is currently projected to win 37 games. Its not his players its your boy SVG's players. Hilarious you defend SVG after 4 years of under 500 basketball yet a guy whos been here not even half of season coaching the same players SVG just won 39 games with you immediately are ready to put the pitchfork in him.
Caseys records with raptors:
23wins
34wins
48wins
49wins
56wins
51wins
59wins
Do I think Casey has been great? No not at all. Do I think we've got good players and should be a good team? No not whatsoever. This team had a 39.5 win projection coming in. These are SVG guys not his. SVG couldnt win with these turds that he chose no reason to expect Casey too.
A great coach can get more out of a roster that's built in a fundamentally sound way but isn't necessarily the most talented. Rick Carlisle with the 2002 Jerry Stackhouse Pistons comes to mind. They were a team that had some sense of balance to the roster but had no stars nor the balanced offense the mid-late 2000s Pistons had. We basically had 3 guys who belonged in an NBA starting lineup on that whole roster, but we had good depth and the players we had FIT together even though the overall talent wa sunderwhelming. A really strong coach can get extra out of that. It was probably a 45 win team that Rick was able to get 50 wins out of. That's what great coaching can get you (in the regular season at least). What it can't get you is orange juice from squeezing a rock.
I never considered Casey a great coach, but nobody can win with a fundamentally flawed roster that also lacks talent. And that's what we've got. Even moreso when Blake is out.
We've got ONE guy who belongs in an NBA starting lineup on a consistent basis. Drummond is a second guy who does that, at least when he's not checked out mentally. Bullock is debatable at best. Everyone else is bench fodder or a bench warmer. And our pnly 2 guys who at least USUALLY play at a starting level don't fit together. That's a roster unlikely to break 40 wins no matter who's coaching it. The ingredients just don't work, and it doesn't matter how good a chef you have.