Seems a better mind than Silas but surely not as good a coach as Nash the PG. Nash could be a Ted Lasso.
I can't for the life of me imagine why Steve Nash would even have wanted to coach this sideshow in the first place. Dude made over 150 million dollars, is a hall of famer, and seems to be well liked and respected. If you just want to stay around the game there are far better options than this.
I'm not interested in Nash coaching the Rockets. I just feel sorry for him. The guy clearly was in an impossible situation, one far worse than his imagination could have produced prior to coming into the job, in my opinion.
Does he even want to coach? IIRC they called this guy up while he was chilling at home and asked him to coach the team and he thought he'd give it a shot. Before that I remember him commentating on soccer games or something lol
Kyrie was always a dips**t, but nobody foresaw the absolute carnival he would turn himself into. Then you add in the Ben Simmons mess, and Durant being the sniveling snake he is. I would have dipped a while back.
Yeah. I think Silas is a much better coach than Nash and if he were coaching the Nets a lot of complaints people have about him just wouldn't really exist. A free running movement system works with veteran players that are bought into winning...its just not working with young players still out to prove they belong.
Good luck to whomever trying to coach the uncoachable. The only saving grace is Joe Harris, I wish he would have been a Rocket.
omG!!!!!! can't believe what i hear Edit: could silas be on the heels of it, pls let it happen, FIREWORK
I mean, it's hard to walk away from coaching a duo of KD/Kyrie, a trio of KD/Kyrie/Harden and a trio of KD/Kyrie/Simmons, no matter how bad the situation gets. Would you rather your coaching tenure start with a Kings or Thunder core, or go into a team with some of the best players in the league, already? Easy choice. In the end, just didn't work out.
I think you were duped by Silas hard. I think he is a scammer, his 'system' is letting players run the system, of course KD and Kyrie would rejoice but it's not a long term solution. Really perplexed at how people still think Silas can coach in this league long term. Nash might do it similarly as MDA founded the school of free flowing Offense but I do think Nash at least has the pedigree of someone who was an elite player, players tend to listen to him. Both would have it tough to stay in the league, it's a result driven league.
If I had as much money as Nash it would be very, very easy to walk away from coaching Kyrie...very easy. Why would you want that headache?
I personally trust what HCs have said about Silas and his contributions to a team more than fans perception of him. I always criticize his decisions but people are way too hard on him for a team that is practically the youngest team in the NBA.
The good aspect about Nash is and would be that he has done it all as a player other than winning it all. He doesn't need to coach an NBA team but somehow Silas and his dad seemed to think otherwise about themselves. I do not think we are too hard on him, he has coached for soon to be 3 years in an Houston environment that is soft compared to other environments.
Finally. Legitimately the worst coach i have ever seen. Unfortunately the nets will likely be very good now
Being a player is not a translatable skill to coaching though. Also, Silas has been working his way through the coaching ranks for years now. He's been an assistant for 20 years before becoming the head coach. He's more than paid his dues for this first opportunity. Nash hasn't. Nash was just plucked off his couch and they assumed he'd be a good coach on a gut feeling.
Great players make shitty coaches, average players who had to work to stay in the league make better coaches. DD
In our championship years Rudy T had to deal with Maxwell and Robert Horry, just to name a few of the emotional basket cases, so what I'm about to say is that the preverbal clown show is everywhere. What I think happened is that Steve Nash came to the realization that it wasn't all fun and games, but that you really need to spend a lot of time managing clown shows too. There's a limited amount of fun no matter where you coach, and Nash comes across as a guy who likes to have some fun.
