Calm down folks, we gonna make the PO, but McFail has gotta go. See, it's not hard to tell when your coach stinks. You usually know when your players are constantly saying things like "We just need to sustain that intensity for four quarters," "We need to play the kind of defense we're capable of playing," "We can take big leads, now we need to learn how to keep them," "We're a young team, so we're still learning how to bring the same consistency every night," "We have to start getting stops," and my personal favorite, "We need to learn how to execute down the stretch." All of it is B.S. All of it. Players from well-coached teams never say these things. If those fake quotes look familiar to you, or if that Milwaukee article looks eerily familiar to others that have been written about your own team, then your coach is underperforming and needs to leave. ------ Bill Simmons' quote on 06 Celtics
11-17, by my count. And if you change it to 4 or less, its 5-5. So, we're 6-11 in games decided between 5 and 8 points.
yes? and there's no greater example that it's ultimately on the players and not the coach than Doc Rivers.
Whichever way this thread goes, if people lost track of this fact, this point needs to be brought back to bear on wherever the conversation is.
We lose close games because the coaches DO NOT RUN SET PLAYS. That playground stuff DOES NOT WORK when things get tight in close games and the playoffs. Does the coach draw up a play during a to in the final minutes? maybe. but if the team spends the entire game just going free-for-all, how the heck do you expect them to suddenly flip a switch? Our only strategy in close games is to give it to Harden and pray he does something. Again, I do not fault this strategy. This is what superstars are supposed to do. However, if we are going to do that, can we PLEASE at least put AB out there with him or something if not Lin? Can the brilliant coaches think of some way to not have Harden face 2 defenders?
I would have to agree. Although most teams when the game gets tight and slows down they tend to score at a less efficient clip.
Doc Rivers was an awful coach earlier in his tenure before the big three came together, it was a valid criticism. Even earlier this year when he decided to roll with Rondo-Ball and half-way through the season when it evidently wasn't working he faulted his players rather than acknowledging that perhaps there needed to be a coaching adjustment. He lucked out by Rondo tearing his ACL which forced his hand.
DING DING DING.... we had players with more experience! Brilliant!!!!!! You and me need some Guinness.... Actually you take the Guinness and Ill have the Endeavor IPA.
he stuck with his starters more often than this year. when he made the decision on who started as a pg, he stuck with it.
i would like him to keep doing it. i am fine with whoever he starts. i hate to see he kept changing game by game.
So our close losses this year happened because we were playing abnormal, suboptimal lineups? I haven't checked this out myself, but I wonder if its the case.
