satriales wrote:Dez wrote:satriales wrote:Philly's failures on defense for the totality of last season (bubble included) absolutely will and should have an impact on Udoka and his head coaching stock. They were set up to be a historically great defense based upon personnel and were league average. There's not an excuse for it.
You're blaming Udoka for Philly not being a historically great defence? That is absurd.
Well, it's not absurd. He was the lead assistant on a team that dramatically under performed on that side of the ball, but this conversation isn't going anywhere if the only rebuttals provided are "we shouldn't consider his team's performance" and "Your argument is absurd" without putting forth any data to support that.
Friendly reminder that they began the season with the intention to devote significant lineup time to Simmons (elite multi-positional defender), Horford (plus multi-positional defender), Josh Richardson (elite multi-positional defender), and Joel Embiid (elite rim protector) yet finished as a worse team defensively than the Bulls, who were giving significant minutes to Zach Lavine and Lauri Markkanen.
There are plenty of capable HC candidates AK and co are looking at, but Ime Udoka ain't it chief.
I don't think the stock of assistant coaches works that way. They don't get dinged when their teams underperform unless some damning behind-the-scenes intel suggests that they should.
After Toronto had disappointed for years, Masai fired Casey and promoted a guy from his staff (Nurse).
The Cavs (well, LeBron) promoted Ty Lue after they fired Blatt.
Lloyd Pierce got hired in Atlanta after his previous team (2018 Sixers) got waxed in the second round, 4-1.
I don't see Philly's performance in these playoffs hurting Ime at all. Just about everyone blames some combination of roster composition (Brand), Brett Brown, the Simmons injury, and Embiid.
