Funny subject, was said to be one of the most underrated coaches in basketball when he won COY, and now he is one of the most overrated since the Thunder are a top 4 seed the past two years.
Still not a fan, but he has improved. Voted overrated - Presti gave him a Ferrari with enough veterans to act as training wheels. (Yeah, terrible mixed metaphor, but that is how I roll - that and the art of mangling sentences.)
Definitely overrated by people that don't follow the Thunder. He's improving but still not good enough. Scott Brooks will be a big reason OKC falls to the Spurs in the WCFs.
Scotty is very much like Rudy T. Not much of a X and O's guy, but puts his players in a position to win and focuses players ego's towards winning.
I basically rank coaches in three tiers. Tier 1 is basically Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich, coaches that have shown to repeatedly able to win championships with talented teams. Tier 2 is every coach that wins as much as his talent let him. Tier 3 is a coach that undercoaches his talent and ultimately is better off as an assistant or college coach. I'd say most NBA coaches belong in Tier 2. Brooks is one of them.
He's a lot like the Thunder IMO. Solid learning experiences, has the tools to succeed, and is maturing on the job as he goes. He'll be fine.
Overrated. Riding the coattails of Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka and Harden...and also GM Presti. If the Thunder don't win a championship within the next few years I can see OKC fans start to sour on him. Loved him while he was a player (a bench-warmer most of the time) for the Rockets, though.
Underrated coach. He's been there since the beginning and has done nice developing those players. Look at Jeff Green. He went to the celtics and just wasn't the same. Scotty makes you shine.
Actually he was the same except he left the comfy "Thunder U" setting and was no longer the pet player of the head coach. Jeff Green held back the Thunder (Harden and Ibaka in particular). Once he was moved out of the way, both of those guys went to another level. OKC went from Thunder U to a more serious basketball team. Did you see what a flaming failure Green was in the playoffs against the Lakers 2 years ago? Again for most people who didn't watch OKC much, he road the coattails of KD & WB to a reputation he did not deserve. The guy flatlined after his rookie season while the huge improvement of KD & WB turned the franchise around. Jeff Green was totally exposed once he got to Boston, which is exactly what I expected. Brooks was an assistant when Green was drafted and was put in charge of his development from day 1. They were very close and the constant favoritism towards Green after he became head coach drove many OKC followers crazy.
How can anyone possibly make a determination? He's not Pops or Phil Jackson yet. Beyond that, who the eff knows? The only definitive thing I can say is that I'd want him way ahead of Spoelstra, but otherwise they're all generally the same.
Did the Celtics want Jeff Green and then trade him or did OKC want him and ask that the Celtics pick-and-trade him? Looking back at that draft, they could have had Noah instead of Green. I realize Ibalka hadn't been drafted yet- but it seems redundant to draft Durant AND Green. Especially when you consider they traded Green back to the Celtics for very little (Perkins is good, but they traded a top 5 pick and a future 1st rounder for an average center).
