<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Golden State owner and GM meeting with Mark Jackson now, and sources close to management and coaching staff believe Jackson will be fired.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/statuses/463741642818596864">May 6, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
If you aren't going to have an X's and O's guy, then you want to make sure he's a great motivator. I'd say he did pretty well taking the Clippers to 7 games in a series they were expected to get blown out in once Bogut went down. Looks like the Warriors made the decision that they'd rather go with a strategist, whereas the Rockets are sticking with their motivator. Only time will tell if either (or both) are the right decisions for their respective clubs.
That team is in trouble. Their roster is basically what it is without much hope of big improvements. They gave up a ton of assets to clear space to sign Iggy who I don't think helped them as much as they thought. They rely on a center who is always injured and Lee can't guard a thing. Curry is more of a combo guard rather than true point and no one else on that team really has point guard skills. Their exciting shooting seems to get people to like them, but I just don't see them being anything more than what they were this season until some contracts run out. Trades are always a possibility, but I think they have to bank nearly all their improvement on young guys getting a lot better.
Ezeli missed the entire season Bogut was rarely healthy, but gave them 20 something minutes for 60-something games. So you give the coach fat Speights, broken down Jermaine O'neal, and 6'9" no-defense David Lee and tell the coach to keep up with the rest of the western conference. Definitely held to a high standard, but there may be a lot behind the scenes that we'll never know about. And maybe Lacob has already lined up his next coach. To me, it's weird. Yes, they were inconsistent, but he also was getting career years out of some of these players. Steph and Thompson have improved a TON under Jackson, and they seem to really like him. You also, I think, have to be absolutely amazed at what the coach got out of a player like Draymond Green. Will be very interesting to see how this group responds to a new coach. My bet is: not well. And if the injuries hit their guards next year, instead of their bigs, they'll just plummet (no matter who their coach is, fair to say). EDIT: I also think Jackson is way ahead of McHale in X's and O's. Just because Jackson sounds a certain way on TV, (with his repeated weird sayings) people don't give him enough credit for his smarts, IMHO.
not a mark jackson fan at all, but the problem is the warriors expectations are ridiculous. people expect them to be a championship team when they don't have a championship roster and the roster they have now can't stay healthy. they have a bunch of "good" but very young players. people forget how the warriors were a bottom tier western conference team before mark jackson got there.
Not sure how much they think they can improve their roster, so maybe they feel like upgrading on a coach is the next best thing? Jackson probably rubbed some front office people the wrong way.
Yeah, that's probably it in a nutshell. That and his game 7 outfit. Just, no. No. You look like you're headed to sophomore prom.
Someone? Try everyone. http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....ing-with-warriors-assistant-coach-pete-myers/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...golden-state-vs-los-angeles-clippers/8500659/ http://www.mercurynews.com/marcus-t...son-warriors-jackson-lacob-should-work-it-out
