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.
