Ugh, keep him away from our players before he cuts their careers in half due to running them into the ground.
Uhh no. I would give my left nut for Thibs to be our top assistant. Isn't happening, he is just going franchise to franchise to learn and discuss basketball.
I'd give my left nut for him to not be associated with our team. Careers he probably ruined: Tracy McGrady Yao Ming Joakim Noah Rajon Rondo Derrick Rose Keep him as far away from Harden as possible.
He didn't ruin any of those players careers. He wasn't even the head coach for most those guys. The players he rode hard were Butler and Deng.
Not even going to take the chance. There is enough correlation and circumstantial evidence to believe it is true. No reason to believe it is not true.
No reason to believe it isn't true? Well he wasn't the head coach and wasn't deciding minutes or rotations in Houston or Boston. In Chicago, the players he played the hardest haven't had injury issues. Noah is a big man that runs the floor a whole lot, has been very acting since he was 18. Not a shock at all. If Thibs were an assistant he wouldn't be deciding minutes or rotations. What Thibs is, is the most innovative defensive coach possibly in the history of basketball. He is responsible for the modern NBA defense you see across the league. He was the first to make defensive actionary and not reactionary. He is an exceptional defensive coach. I cannot see why a team that at times lacks defensive intensity would not greatly benefit from Thibs.
So if you a great D you can't O. But if you don't have D you can have great O. Interesting. But if you have a friend with great D with that compliment your great O? And I must be like 13 to find that so funny.
No, McHale decides his minute distribution and rotation.... Not his assistants. McHale has assistants that plan for opponents and coaches that design strategy and plan/plays.
I agree with this. I actually don't think it's lack of a good scheme so much as intensity and focus to defensive details that this team needs. Things like poor blocking out habits killed us on any given night last year. When the margin for error narrows against good teams, that's when those little things started to add up and that's why we had such a poor record against the very top tier teams. Thibs has a proven history of getting teams to focus on the defensive side of the ball. As an assistant, I would welcome him with open arms. As mentioned earlier, I think McHale is still calling the shots regarding minutes played and I also suspect Morey has Houston as one of the teams utilizing more of the biometrics data this year to determine the fatigue of our players. That's been emerging over the last few years and I think it will increasingly drive fluctuation in nightly minute totals once Morey has calculated the risk/reward of pushing players into the fatigue territory.
I agree with most of what you said, but what's wrong with tweaking a defense that couldn't seem to get stops when they needed them against the Warriors? Being offensively minded doesn't mean you don't have to care about defense.
