Silas is not a racist, he has no problem playing Garrison Mathews over Josh Christopher for instance. His problem is that his system is built around guards and running the pick and roll, he made his reputation and was hired here in the first place because of his work with Luka on the Mavericks. He has no clue how to build a team around a playmaking big man, which is why he would rather stunt Sengun’s growth and prop up the guards, to accommodate his own system. Silas is trying to save his own ass, nothing more nothing less.
Some of you people really need be drawn every little thing like with little kids. He may be a cunning racist buddy, no self respecting racist act differently towards all of the members of the wrong race, of course he not gonna discriminate against all of them especially not against the scrubs, it would be too obvious and wouldn't serve his purpose. He may be content just to help black people to have the franchise player and a max contract guy, by holding back the best white guy here and there. This is perhaps why Theis was his favorite, so nobody can accuse him of racism. LOL
I like a lot of your post but I wish you would leave the racism stuff out of these discussions. SIlas is a bad coach who has no idea how to coach someone like Sengun. It really is that simple.
I just don't get why he treats Sengun so different than the other players so obviously. Like Sengun can have a monster game and lead his team to victory and Silas would be like "Meh, he did OK."
I do think many decisions are based on the KPJ files. Stone and Silas were all- in on the development as the upcoming big PG project which failed big time. Kevin threw things and left the arena and that shot his value further. Stone and Silas have been trying to salvage his value ever since.....anything else came second. Silas doesn't have the mental capacity and he is grieving his dad a lot longer than ppl assume...folks don't understand that this coach is emotionally damaged for a long time. Racism or not I doubt Silas is even thinking about it...and Stone is definitely in on monitoring Sengun and Porter.
The only reason why Silas is even a head coach is because how he built an offense around Luka - who is a white euro…
Silas cannot build an offense to save his life. That is such a big myth that he built an offense around luka. If anything Luka built an offense despite Silas LOL.
LOL you hold so black and white view of racism and racial discrimination... discriminating vs race doesn't man you hate people of other color or refuse to help them when it benefits you, and theres no other alternative, just that you tend to help your people more and on occasion even to the detriment of others... whatever all this is just assumptions... it also doesn't necessarily mean that what he is doing is his personal preference, he may be just feeling the peer pressure from black community that helped him get the coaching job so he might be just 'being fair towards them' or returning them the favor either because he feels obliged or to protect his interests...
Yes anyone could have built an offense around an all time great offensive player, point I was making is that he didn’t try to hold back Luka due to race.
hahah, nice, so holding sengun back is perhaps his way of rebelling vs father figure and authority? LOL
he wasn't in position to and it wouldn't have mattered cause luka was the top pick...here hes had some power cause alpi was an outsider anyway so it was in his power to hold him back.. again i support and feed 10 cats, does it mean that I would have never ever left them unfed to feed my neighbor or a cousin or just a random poor fellow man instead?
