Nick Nurse - replacement for Silas?

Nurse has a .582 winning percentage, and his win totals have dropped every season. Not sure what the love affair is with him, but if we hire him we will be looking for another HC in two seasons.

 

Rick Adelman had five straight seasons of declining win totals from the peak of the '02 Kings (the ones who got robbed in the WCF by the Lakers).

Mike D'Antoni had won one playoff game in eight years prior to joining the Rockets, and had already been "exposed" as a gimmick coach by two separate organizations.

There are definitely legitimate criticisms about Nurse's style, and whether he can develop an extremely young, extremely bad roster. And whether he wants to at this stage in his career. But coaches don't leave or get fired from an organization when everything is going well and they're keeping a consistently high level of play, they leave when everyone seems to be falling apart, whether that's quickly or slowly.

 

Thats my concern as well but to his defense these Raptor teams haven’t been as good as that 18-19 team either. That team was a veteran team and had Lowry, Kawhi, Green, Ibaka, Gasol. They were more balanced instead of a team filled with 6’9 guys and van fleet.

 

I don't know if the #Sources are legit but

 

Everyone is better than Stephen, almost everyone. That is saying nothing.

The NBA champion.

Ariza won a ship with the Lakers, he did not win one with the Rockets.

Has difficulty paying alimony.

 

Let Mike D'Antoni coach the Kevin Martin, Kyle Lowry and Scola Rockets instead of the Harden led Rockets.

 

Not quite sure what you're getting at...obviously on-court talent plays a huge role in coaching success, but I think it's pretty hard to argue that D'Antoni was not a homerun hire for that exact Rockets team looking to push them over the hump.

Even Rick Adelman, whom I personally hold in very high regard, did about as well with the Martin/Lowry/Scola rosters as Kevin McHale did in the very next year; at the end of the day, there's only so much any coach can get out of a talent-bare roster.

I'm open to the idea that Nick Nurse is not a developmental coach, and there is someone like Kenny Atkinson who is a better fit based on the quality and age of the roster. But much like Harden being undoubtedly the best FA in terms of on-court impact and value despite his age and declining production, I think that Nurse should be considered the top option based on his sustained run of success and the NBA championship win.

 

C'mon man, you don't believe @NBATradeReport?!

Seriously, I don't know who that is. lol.

 

Here we go

 

Cool, we saw that simultaneously.

 

Udoka to the Raptors

 

Frankie V to the Rockets

 

makes sense he'd want to coach a contender. maybe waiting for dallas to fire kidd.

 

I think Nurse will want to avoid the players that helped him get fired.

 

for sure.

 

Come on down, Nick. We’ve been waiting!

 

I would prefer Nurse over Vogel. But I would prefer Udoka over both of them.