Les should just sell the team. Even in good time, Toyota centers always had a lot of empty seats. Houston is not a great sports town. The atmosphere in arena is no where close to the ones in Oakland, TOR or OKC, etc. The value of a NBA team has increased tremendously, he should aim to sell high in next couple years.
I like Le$' big picture vision. He is slowly phasing out Mauri leading to the eventual and deserved firing Le$ is cold.
Another comment about Les's basketball philosophy. In the opening statement he says, "In today's NBA, it's all about ball movement and speed. " Well, that doesn't mean an offensive specialist wins. Adelman could do that, too, and he appreciated defense more than D'Antoni. And I think Les meant to add three pt shooting to that, as well. As for my take on that, I'm a firm believer that the change was largely the doing of new breeds of defense in the post-Illegal Defense era of the NBA, mixed with it also being an era of few great centers. The defenses drove the offenses to adjust. The increase of 3s coincides with the clamp down on layups, forcing more motion and speed to get layups. The increase of 3s, also coincides with new scouting priorities to get long, defensive players and teaching them to shoot 3s. When it was once more common to have pure-shooting specialists at the guard positions, now defensive wings in sophisticated defenses make the rosters and are taught the three...and bigs are being asked to practice them, too. And when you do field soft bigs who shoot 3s, like Pops did in 2014 (Belinelli, Bonner), you win because you also have premier defenders too to hide their weaknesses in sophisticated team defenses. So, I see the change in offenses coming from the rules change that favor more sophisticated defenses, requiring 3s, motion and speed to beat. bottomline: this presser was depressing, because it confirmed D'Antoni still underestimates defense and how it changed the game. And you better have one, because they've improved since the Nash/Suns days. And you better keep an eye on these up and coming centers/bigs that the NBA hasn't had in awhile.
If's funny that Les wanted someone with experience, when the Warriors gave the job to Steve Kerr who had no prior head coaching experience.
You'd think he was a big kid with a complicated toy that he wants to have a lot of fun with but never bothered reading the instructions.
