65 wins season, never the lost in the first round. Almost beat the GOAT team....James Harden had his best playoffs and regular seasons under him...If you are just going to say he did nothing good, then we have nothing left to talk about.
Tillman is looking at the YMCA for coaches. 100k a year plus + incentives (up to $2500 a quarter) that include leading the league in rebounds etc.
The truly great coaches who won championships didn't have to do it with midgets against giants either.
Lue would be a great long term pickup. Sad to see MDA go, loved him as our coach and I wish we could have seen 1 more year of him + CP3 + Harden.
Tillman will want a Trump guy, so Gene will have to say he's ready to sacrifice his morals for money first.
I feel bad for Mike, but it was obvious small ball wasn’t going to win a championship . We definitely need a head strong coach who can get through to the players. Good luck to MDA.
One thing that sticks out for me is the OKC series. I thought what if MDA was coaching OKC? Dort would have NEVER played, he only has his 7 man rotation, 8 at best...and Dort can't shoot so he likely would have been cut by now. There are coaches that force players to fit into their system and coaches that make their system around their players, MDA is the former. How many decent players we just let go because they couldn't play here? Potential wasted because they didn't fit into the jack up 3 style we were playing? Donovan on the other hand knew Dort couldn't shoot but what does he do? He realizes he has other ways to affect the game and stuck him on Harden and it almost won the series, otherwise, the series is a sweep, easy. OKC also exploited us the same way the Lakers did but they were just less talented. MDA is what he is. He never beats the team he has to beat.
Despite the extreme frustration I appreciate his time with the team this was better than the JVG era for sure
My only issue is that we need a different style of play, and that comes from above. What are they going to do - bring in Lue and have him do the same 3 and Layups style, with small ball? Is that helping anything? Morey needs to go, and Tillman needs to reach into those extremely deep pockets, cheapo
He is one of the few selected coaches that would put a smiley face on when all hell breaks loose around him. 'I am perfectly fine with what' s going on around me. ' Molten lava.