Gooner wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:TheNetsFan wrote:That's true, but I think that's partly a function of how bad the talent on those rosters was. They had to follow the analytics, because they lacked super efficient mid range players.
Exactly, our best mid range player was D'Angelo Russell, who is inefficient as hell.
Kenny would coach circles around Nash. It's not even close. But KD and Kyrie are a pair of clowns who don't want to be coached, play team oriented basketball, or win. They're just here to have fun hooping at the fans' expense.
This is why they really signed here, so they can dick around without any scrutiny. If KD was on the Knicks and he played the way he played during a first round sweep, or if Kyrie said the things that he said following a sweep, they wouldn't be able to even show their faces in public. They would be run out of town.
I'm not spending a dime on this team until Steve Nash is gone and Joe Tsai wakes up. The Nets are a terrible product.
I don't think Nets are ver gonna win the title with Nash. They have talent, KD, Kyrie, SImmons and Harris could be a great foundation for success, but I just can't see that guy coaching a team to a title. Basketball gods won't let that happen.
^ agree with most ^
Hiring Nash for a win-now team was pretty much the hallmark of... something being
WAY the fluff off.
Even if Marks started with Nash instead of Kenny, at least it would have made a modicum of sense. Because that way, by the time Marks decided to jettison the original plan for big name sharpshooters, he'd at least have a legit-ish HC with 3-4 years of working experience.
Let's also not forget the primary reason why Nash was hired in the first place (and no, I disagree that it was sheerly cronyism)-- it was to be a 'no fuss,' compliant extension of Marks himself, standing right on the sidelines. By comparison, we all know Kenny Atkinson at this point, a strong (if reserved in public) personality, who has a load of beliefs about how to do things the right way.
For sure just my opinion at this point, but I believe Marks simply couldn't handle that over the long haul, and opted for the infinitely softer, gentler, yes-man in Steve Nash, someone he knew and felt sure would always fall *way* more in line like Kenny. Plus willingly bend over for the big-name stars, of course.
Marks to me either needs to go back to Pop School, or to demonstrate that he's learned from his colossal series of terrible decisions the past few years. Lately he seems too much invested in saving face, tripling-down, and justifying his now hefty paycheck, pandering to an owner's chronic desire for a title, resultant in nothing more than a high-end treadmill, at the end of the day. One savaged by lost, future picks and trade-swaps blown out the door.
Like--
Billy / Mikhael / Dmitri... is that just you, hiding behind the Marks mask?***
Btw, speaking about Rob Williams (earlier), I'm still kinda cringing about how the Celt's med staff / trainers brought him back so quickly from having meniscus tissue removed, and now *every* game it's a total crapshoot whether draining the knee will do any good at all, whether getting enough deep-tissue massage, blood-therapy will help, and whether working through a level of knee pain that nobody would normally entertain is actually worth it in the long run.
IMO Isaiah was right to tweak these guys, like he did a little earlier.
I mean yeah, I can understand hardass, oldschool Danny Ainge perpetrating this shizzle, but Brad Stevens...?
Maybe it just shows that every team is a complete bag of idiots when it comes to a particular area.
