Don't you love it when a small number of tactical decisions wind up being incorrect and forum posts like these paint the coach's entire decision making, character, intelligence and all bonafide accomplishments as overshadowed and irrelevant. Fact is - we are in 3rd place in the west. Missing our starting point guard and a big investment Finney-Smith has never played at all yet. We took the champs to double overtime and won multiple games we weren't favored to win. Lastly a decent measure of coaching "prowess" IMHO is the delta achieved when you enter the 3rd quarter after coaching adjustments. Fact is we are +1.4PPH 2nd half vs. 1st half which shows our coach is out coaching the other side on average.
IME is doing a B+ job. I marvel at some of his weird lineups, and his stubbornness about sticking to his standard (playing today "hot" hand, even if that mean leaving your best 3pt shooter on the bench) on last-must-make possessions. But he's still figuring out how to integrate the team after losing 3 starters.
Until hou starts blowing out teams consistently like okc, then they might have a reason to contend against the champs. I mean you can see it, do you really think Hou has a chance against the champs in 7. Hou offense is so predictable
Uh... OKC is 21-1, literally a historic start. So if we don't "regularly blow out" a team that is having a better season than any NBA team has ever had since it started in 1946 then in your judgement our coach is a failure and must be replaced... I'm guessing you don't/can't realize how ridiculous that hot take is?
Ugh why no Ime always blowout team with greatest start in NBA history??!?!?! He stupid??!?!@!?<<^$*$#@!!!
not sure what you’re talking about. Can you cite specifically which lineups or games you’re referring to? I’ve only seen him put guys in that don’t get a lot of playing time situationally or when he needs a change of energy because the starters aren’t performing. He put Tate in the other night for defense, hustle and energy. He put Holliday in for the same reasons in several games. Davidson got some burn early on. He likes to insert guys and mix it up Based on game script and I don’t see an issue with it.
yeah tate definitely should have stayed in to start the 4th with the momentum shifting. I thought Durant should have stayed on the bench and was sluggish the whole game. Once he made that lineup change putting Durant in, and playing that 2-3 to start the 4th is where they lost the game. They allowed back to back 3’s and miscommunicated on a cutting/slipping Love to start the 4th.
It's hard to remember specifically off the top of my head, but for example, I would never play a lineup of Capela, Holiday, Tate, Okogie, and Jabari. That's one that I do remember. I just don't think this is a usable lineup. As I said I can't remember off the top of my head where he used this lineup but I know I saw it. I don't really like the idea of Capela/Holiday/Thompson/Okogie either, I don't know that you could add any 5th guy to that lineup where it could be good. Generally speaking I am in favor of having as many starters on the floor as you can at all times. That doesn't mean overplaying your players, I just mean that you should try to stagger them a lot and not have them all sit at once. I don't really like any of the lineups that only have 1 starter in them. Maybe I'm just not paying close enough attention but it seems like most coaches follow this philosophy. I don't think the lakers see a lot of minutes with Lebron, Luka, and Reaves all on the bench. Anyway this is just nitpicking, like I said in my first post I think Ime is a great coach, one of the best in the league. So I'm not really interested in getting into a debate where I have to take the "Ime doesn't know what he's doing" side of it, because I am a big Ime fan. I just think he has a tendency to play lineups with too many scrubs and not enough starters, and I'm not a particularly big fan of that. I don't have any stats to back this part up, so it could be my bias, but it feels like other teams go on runs when he puts in these lineups that have me scratching my head.
I’m not fond of the lineup that includes two bigs and two midgets, we he has been running out recently. Maybe it’s just the lack of depth we have right now, but I don’t see how a lineup of Sengun, Adam’s, Reed, and Holiday with whoever else works defensively. I think he experimenting quite a bit and we are still winning at a good pace, so give him the benefit of the doubt until at least one of Tari/DFS get back or until the starters start jelling.
Ime is not good with offense but sorry to tell the OP Ime is not the worst coach in history because he replaced the worst coach in history. Nobody will ever be as bad as SIlas.
Never thought I'd like him as much as I do. MT: "Did you really call the team a JV squad last night?" Ime: " : pauses for a few seconds : I told them they were playing like a JV team. "
Houston leads all teams in 20+ points wins. Rockets have a historically great point differential with the 90's Bulls and 2010's Warriors. Before Jazz, Rockets losses are to teams with combined 68-17 record. That record is like playing against '25 OKC, '24 Celtics champs. It's just a really tough league at the top now
