Not a great sentence, but he actually makes a good point. The vets like Cousins, Wood, Harden, Westbrook, Wall had zero desire to play for Silas and were ultimately gone. He garners no respect from a coaching standpoint around the league and minus the Mavs every organization he has coached with has been abysmal while he was there.
You must live in some alternate reality ..... Silas had nothing to do with those players wanting out, they wanted out because the team had no cap space and no assets to get better and were drained of talent as a result of the ducking of the luxury tax, both before Tilman and after. But Silas ....
Yes, I think he's done a very good job. His job isn't to win games, it's to position the team for an early draft pick and develop the talent currently on the roster. He's done both at a very high level. They are the #1 offensive rebounding team in the league - credit coaching. They have the 4th best offensive shot profile in the league - credit coaching & the offensive system (the system many claim doesn't exist). Despite being the league's worst shooting team (strange with such a good shot profile), they only allow opponents to shoot 0.06% better - they play hard and play better defense than you expect from a young team - credit coaching. Literally everyone on the roster is improving individually - credit coaching, work ethic & team culture. Damn near the whole team spent most of the offseason in the gym working on getting better. The teams they have beaten are good teams - Utah, Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix twice, Philly & Milwaukee all ,500 or better. Losing to garbage teams like the Spurs is excusable, those losses count double draft position. Contrary to the narrative you and some other chicken littles like to drive, the sky is not falling. This team is headed in the right direction and well ahead of schedule in terms of the rebuild.
No coach would be any better if you strip it all back on them.................you are expecting him to do miracles
The only thing I care about is EG and Matthews getting minutes when they should be going to Tari, KJ & Josh.
On the surface he's a nice guy but being a nice guy to a fault can quickly fall into being a careless/negligent guy. There has to a strong identity with a strong strategic playing philosophy. Then with that there must be accountability. All that demands respect. The players seem to respect Silas more as a nice guy than a strong basketball coach. I hate that. It is bad and quite frankly as a person/man and professional you gotta bring your nuts to the task at hand and do whatever you gotta do to get the team to improve. I don't see it.
He’s not a bad person, but he is a very very very bad coach. Corrosion and others try to sell you that he is a legendary coach in the making. Anybody who has watched his offense and player utilization knows he can’t coach worth a lick.They use the youth excuse, but fail to see that he’s in year three and in over 20 years of coaching has never been associated with a winning organization or culture (minus one year in Dallas where they went nowhere). He is a soft spoken guy with zero discipline who the players run over with lack of respect. The only guy worth a dime on this staff is John Lucas, who has an aggressive personality and the balls to call guys out for their failures. Hard to imagine being worse than 39-153, but trust me we would be if not for Lucas. Hard to believe there are people calling us “chicken littles claiming the sky is falling” with 3 years of terminal failure and counting going on. As for player development….Gary Bird is worse, Josh Christopher is in the missing person program, Sengun is barely playing 20 minutes a game (in a three headed committee). Oh wait….Daisaun Nix is looking like an improved player this year. I stand corrected!
It seems we help Silas to break worst w/l % record. Come on Silas, u can do it!!! U are so talented. There is no coach in history, whose team has 7 first rounders in two years (2 of them top 3 selection) and reach this kind of losing percentage. Congratulations... https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/NBA_stats.html
i dont think being a person and what you do are that separable... eg you cant say Hitler was not a bad person, just very very very bad at being the president of Germany....
ah now you talking... on the surface most of the villains in history were nice...if you are a bad person its more beneficial for humanity in general that you suck at surface as well, because the superficially nice guys did most damage to humanity due to their misleading nature...
I think if you told me 2 seasons ago right after Harden left when we had the likes of an over the hill Olidipo and John Wall to look forward to (talk about no hope for the future), that by 2022 they already would have a foundational core of 3-4 young potential superstar to star level talent between the ages of 19-22, I would be ecstatic We really need to be grateful that we moved past the "watching mid over the hill former borderline stars struggle for a play in spot" phase so quick because quite frankly that is the worst phase a NBA franchise can be in.
The Rockets clearly have talent and are in this phase of, “beat the good teams you can get up to face, while losing to everyone else”. I have never seen such an undisciplined team in terms of making boneheaded turnovers, multiple passes per game which just go out of bounds because players aren’t even looking for the ball. You can chalk it up to young players who get crossed up on play calls, but if that’s the case then where’s accountability? We’ve seen zero indication that Silas employs any sort of negative feedback to the team. They don’t fear him; and for that fans that watch the games minute by minute want him gone. He’s going to keep smiling his way to the unemployment line. Ultimately I’m of the mind that no young team can make that turnaround without either a big influx of veteran leadership, or a coach that cracks the whip. We don’t really want to make that shift until the off-season because for now, losses help our draft pick. But yes I agree after this season Silas has to go.
