Talked about the plan of going to Sengun because of the matchup advantage and how Tari Eason reminds him somewhat of Kawhi Leonard.
We're elite defensively and 12th offensively with a core of 22 year olds, on pace for 50+ wins. We were a 29th ranked offense and defense a couple years ago. Ime is doing a great job
I'm afraid we have to take the "on pace for 50 wins" with a grain of salt due to our relatively easy schedule so far. I hope you are right though. We should get better still.
According to many sites, our team has had a difficult schedule compared to others. We have quality wins against Dallas, Memphis, and the Knicks and played OKC and GSW so far. We're doing well considering how young our team is, and Ime has been excellent from where we've come from seasons past. https://powerrankingsguru.com/nba/strength-of-schedule.php
Stop it. That’s not even remotely accurate. Best player on this team and a top 3-5 center in the game
This was Mark Daigneault's coaching record, he inherited a 44-win team the year before his start, that had just previously made the playoffs with Chris Paul and Lou Dort. They traded Paul and he inherited a young Shai Alexander at 22 years old. They were terrible for a few years losing twenty more games his first two seasons and missing the playoffs, then mediocre, and then broke out and improved with fortunately getting a rare unicorn in Chet in the draft (who is now hurt btw, so we'll see what happens). The point is, how do you think OKC fans felt during the 22-win and 24-win seasons with him as a coach? It's a process and every young team needs years to improve incrementally over multiple seasons. He had a terrible record until Shai started to look like an MVP at 25 years old and they were fortunate to get Chet. Ime is actually ahead of schedule than him, has a better coaching record, a younger team core and we don't have an MVP player yet. https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/daignma99c.html
He was their GLeague coach and Oklahoman fans have more patience. They treat him as if he was one of their lotto picks. But to your question, if he wasn't their home bred coach, then yes, I agree things would have looked different. Caruso talked about when he started his career with the OKC Blue and that was probably 6-7 years ago, and Daigneault was still there coaching the Blue.
I agree 100% with you, thanks for that honest response. My hope is that our fanbase has patience, and (not you just speaking in general) we don't have player-only fans or people with other racial agendas hurting our team from growing and winning. We have a good thing going and we're moving according to historical standards for rebuilds, much faster actually. Ime is a great coach and our young 20-23-year-olds are improving each season. Boston took seven years with Tatum to win the finals failing over and over, getting a little better each year, and then finally getting the win. Milwakee took six years with Giannis, GSW took five with Steph. It takes years of incremental improvement historically (aside from rare FA superteam wins) and then you get there with talent, health, and hard work. I'm enjoying watching the process personally.
