It's all-STAR, if they didn't tune him out it would be all-COACH. Translation: Things are not going WELL. SG
Winning cures a lot of things Ime better hope this teams stays near the top, because the minute we're significantly disappointing he's in trouble. Almost every presser, even after a win, he publicly calls out the team and basically calls them a bunch of p*ssies. I appreciate that he pushes them to be better, but sometimes you gotta pull back a little and just say "good job".
Ime has full control of the Rockets lockerroom just as he did the Celtics. Not sure Rockets fans understand how respected + even beloved Ime is in basketball community, especially among players + other coaches.
Disagree, he's an excellent coach. The standard to develop and get better got his first Boston team to the finals and he's been part of championship cultures as an assistant. He absolutely praises them when they do a good job, anyone saying he's in trouble after the massive improvement we've made in consecutive seasons sounds like an agenda honestly. He'll get COY votes this season right now as well, and has won coach of the month this year.
He is a great defensive coach and motivator. He isn't losing the lockerroom. He has to either improve his offensive chops or turn a lot of it over to a more competent assistant. We are ahead of schedule for the re-build and he is a large part of that. A product of that success is higher expectations. We cannot be contenders without being a top 10 offensive team. Stone didn't help him at the deadline. It is obvious that we need good consistent 3 pt shooting and a coach that can take advantage of it. If we are still struggling like this on offense next year, Ime will be under the gun.
It's been the same thing each year with the impatient fanbase, fans lose track we have a core of 19-22 year old stars and don't understand they will grow and have growing pains each season. The impatience was there during the tanking years when we were accumulating talent/assets, last year when we were learning to become competitive, and this year when we are set to make the playoffs and hit a new level. There will be growing pains and stumbles each year, fans don't look at the big picture over seasons. We've made the biggest jumps of just about any NBA team the past two years. Let them grow over seasons before comparing them to teams with 25-35 year old cores. If anything, sign Ime up for an extension when we hit the playoffs, which was our goal this season we're crushing.
It is funny that the fanbase is preaching patience but the Coach is eager to win in the Playoffs to redeem himself from that Boston scandal.
No need to extend. Ime has plenty of weaknesses. Extend him when he demonstrates that he can take this uber talented roster to contender status.
Mike D'Antoni is needed as a Assistant Coach for Reed Sheppard, Amen Thompson, Jalen Green, Alperen Sengun, Cam Whitmore, Jabari Smith, Tari Eason. They need to play a Uptempo 7 Seconds or less Offense. Fastbreak points Alperen Sengun rebounds Touchdown pass to Jalen Green or Amen Thompson running the floor. Every player Averages will go up and Players Love Mike D'Antoni offense. The Half Court Iso from Green and Sengun is really hard to watch. Players get tired out and players get disengaged.
We were the second seed for a large part of the season with 21 year olds. Very few, if any coaches in the league has shown improvements this large the past two years. Again, it's patience and growth over years, this fanbase has never really seen a true rebuild. We're doing great big picture, Sengun is now an all star under Ime, Amen might be next or all defensive etc. under him as well.
Mike D'Antoni I know can turn Reed Sheppard, Jalen Green, Amen Thompson into a All Star and even more. Alperen Sengun can be unlocked even more. Cam Whitmore, Tari Eason, Jabari Smith are way too much of a hidden gems. In a Fast Pace Offense they are unstoppable.
I'm not saying he's in trouble now, I'm saying if this team starts losing more than they win for a long stretch he may lose the locker room surprisingly quickly. I'd bet the players are fine with being pushed hard and with getting a lot of "tough love" when things are going well, but if they start going south, getting criticized constantly is going to feel a lot different. Just human nature--when you're already feeling like a failure, getting sh*t on tends to make people defensive and closed-off.
I'd say it's pretty normal. Good leadership is a balancing act between pushing people to be better and building them up.
