I personally think coaching is a little overrated. A small handful of coaches make a real positive impact, a few terrible ones make a negative impact, but the vast majority fall in the middle where if they have good players they look alright and if they don't they get fired. Brown falls in that middle ground IMO.lilfishi22 wrote:WeekapaugGroove wrote:I don't know if it's that simple. There have been questions about brown for a couple years in regards to some of his systems and rotations. Now I think some of this is roster construction and that's not an easy group to coach but I'm also not sure he's that good of a coach.lilfishi22 wrote:Impatience
They've been on this express path basically since they decided to move like half of their good core guys (Roco/Saric) to build a contender now. They've dealt with trying to integrate two big pieces into the starting line up on the fly and injuries from Embiid only to lose in G7 to a contender. I think that's far from a reason to get rid of their coach.
Brown is going to get his pick of HC jobs when he decides he wants to coach again should he get fired.
Another factor is brown was a remnant of an old regime and it's natural for the new front office to want their own hand picked guy.
It's pretty common that the guys who was right for the building phase isn't the right guy for the compete phase.
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I'm just saying what they've done in the past year is consistent with a front office that is trying to fast track the team/core into a contender. Part of that is may be that they think they need to do *something* and it's easier to replace a coach with a "high level HC" than it is to rebuild the roster. They may also have seen that their window may not be as long as initially thought with Embiid's long term health which means more "win-now" moves needs to be made.
On the topic of Brown, I do think Brown is a high level coach but I think some perception changed because they lost on a buzzer beater in a G7 of the 2nd round of the playoffs when that shouldn't be the case. If they were thoroughly beaten from end to end for most of the series then fine but they went up against arguably the deepest team and 2nd most talented contender in the East and lost on a buzzer beater. Here's the key thing, perception and reality aren't always a match and I think that's the issue here. I think perception changed because the story is that the Sixers didn't make it to the ECF but the reality is that one buzzer beater doesn't suddenly make Brown an average coach or even a coach that isn't fit to be the HC of a contender.
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