Should have stayed with the group that was playing well. Brought the starters back in, specifically Fred and Green, which killed the momentum.
This team is getting open shots. They can’t ****ing shoot. You can design up whatever you want…the team doesn’t have good shooters.
There’s a boatload of open shots in the first half. Can’t knock them down. The other team did. At some point someone is gonna have to learn how to shoot the basketball or folks gotta go.
The more I watch Udoka, the more I fear he is a great transitional coach, but not the guy to get a team across the finish line to a title. There just doesn't seem to be any creativity in terms of offensive structure, and he always seems to be in win now mode instead of thinking about 82. FVV should no be leaned on every single game, even if he is the safe hand and it may cost us some wins. Let young players lose us some games...it's okay. Now in his defense, coaches can only do so much with personnel, and the offensive talent just may not be there. However that still doesn't completely excuse how painfully stagnant our offense gets.
Kerr is having his own problems with Kuminga. But Warriors did not give Kuminga a 185 million dollars contract, so you can kinda justify it if you try. What's happening with Sengun and Ime is very weird.
Ime has to adjust man, we shouldn't be designing plays to get long distance jumpers. That's the opposite of our team's strength so we're going to be inconsistent at it. He's not designing enough plays that get us to/near the rim. He's not letting this team play fast so that Whitmore/Jalen/Amen can attack in some space. Teams are just packing it in, slowing it down and giving us semi-open 3's, it's not something Udoka is drawing up. They're happily giving it to us because they know it doesn't suit our highest impact players to become jumpshooters. Like everyone else in the league, we can get better shots than just any good shot, if that makes sense.
Facts. When we get easy buckets at the rim (rarely) it's not because he designed a play that way, it's because we took advantage of a defensive error on their side.
This season, he's been absolutely putrid. Showing he's more an assistant coach to instil discipline and nothing more, his X and Os and substitutions have been disastrous. It takes a real, real, real, real (I cannot stress this enough) bad coach to have your star player sitting on the bench disgusted not cheering his teammates on only SIX GAMES into the season. (that is a big negative on Sengun as well, don't get me wrong)
My grade is A+++ if he keeps benching Sengun for 30 min every game. That's how we win games like tonight.
