I'd like to give my opinion on Udoka： The offense lacks any tactical structure. It's either isolation plays for Durant or post-ups for Şengün, with no penetration or player movement. It often devolves into one player attacking while four others stand and watch . He overplays his starters excessively. While other teams around the league use 10+ player rotations, Udoka stubbornly sticks to an 8-man rotation. He played the 37-year-old Durant for 48 minutes in a back-to-back game, while completely freezing out players like Holiday. With a dense schedule coming up, this risks injuring key players and triggering a losing streak . His in-game adjustments are disastrous. He is often slow to react when opponents make strategic changes, failing to call timeouts to disrupt their momentum and adjust tactics. The ability to adapt on the fly is completely absent with Udoka . He is quick to bench players (DNP). He will immediately pull a player for a single defensive mistake, but turns a blind eye to repeated, egregious offensive turnovers from certain players . He never takes responsibility. He makes the most errors, yet never admits his own mistakes, consistently deflecting blame onto the players instead . He tends to underestimate weaker opponents. The team's complacency against lower-ranked teams starts with him. Remember last year when he called the Nets a "trash team," only to get swept by them immediately after . There are no clutch-time plays. The team's playmaking in crucial moments is among the worst in the league, often failing to even create a decent shot opportunity . His only strengths are motivational skills and defensive schemes. It's hard to think of any other notable strengths .
I think Ime is in line with all our young talent. Exciting at times, super talented, but deeply flawed. Ime isn’t our weakest link at all, but he has flaws for sure. However like prospects like Amen and Şengün you’d be a fool to give up on them now. Let’s see what he can do with some growing pains, and come to Jesus moments of humility.
"We talk about that all the time with high-level teams and the lower-level teams and bottom line, we're half a year into it now. Can't be an excuse, you got to come (play) every night and if we played like we did tonight, we'd lose by 40 to the other teams we just beat." https://netswire.usatoday.com/story...-low-expectations-from-outsiders/78224776007/ “I gotta do a better job of getting them motivated in games against lesser opponents.” — Udoka after Kings loss
Well written and mostly agree. Ime is a motivational speaker and inspirational leader but lacks play calling skills. Despite this I still like him as a no nonsense head coach. However, we do need a good assistant coach who can draw up plays that matches our player's capabilities and take into account the opponent's strength/weaknesses. There must be a Tex Winter Jr out there. We need him to make a deep run in the playoffs. We have the talent and attitude to win it all but not the tactical plays. oi
Coach needs an organization that will spend some money on the structure of its staff. The smallest front office in the league means the most over worked. Leaves no margins for errors. Just grind till it happens. The job is turn this into that. Grind. Know, most successful people’s tool bags need more than a hammer and duct tape. Growth happens through mistakes and mistakes happen through confidence. One has to believe in what they are doing to make the mistakes. Growth is critical and only comes when mistakes are corrected both by one’s own actions through the understanding of other’s experience. This said, if there are no margins then there is little to no growth. We have a structural problem. The small coaching staff. The lack of growth comes from the lack of support staff of the coaching staff. it seems that we expect the veteran players to play and develop the skills necessary of the younger players. We expect vets to play through mismatches in the games. We expect veterans to call plays and make in game decisions that will help the team win. a lot of rolling the ball out on the court and watch. if coach is doing the job of multiple people this what happens. How could it not? He is everything to all people. —> it’s structural. We need a larger than average coaching staff that has very define responsibilities. Offensively, defensively and fundamentally. (A good shooting coach would be worth their weight in gold. —> Sengun found his rhythm by playing with his home team —> being around other basketball people).
9. He lost the keys to the locker room This has been a consistent problem, players are forced to change in their cars and have to use the lower concourse bathrooms
people really forget that coaches can develop and evolve as well. the organization needs to hire a reputable offensive coach though and asap.
Funny how amazing some coaches look (Kerr, Pop, Rudy T, Phil Jackson) when they happen to have a Top 20 Player of all time playing for them. Ime, as bad as he is at times, deserves a medal for what he's done with a group of early 20 somethings, a micro frenchie for a point guard and an emaciated Kevin Durant. Ime is far from the biggest problem on the team.
