Wednesday night is gonna be fire! Miami won’t lose at home. Denver fans seeing their season slipping away.
Harlem it's ok to use your regular screen name we know it's you.
I thought TtoZ was timvp, tbh.
Heat most important player did not show up.
Heatref gotta be influential or they got no chance.
Boom
Champion type of Win
We expectidited and Nuggies delivievered. Whooooo.
Because coaching matters means players don’t.
That's cause Jokic is actually efficient on offense. His TS% is miles ahead of Westbrook's.
Surprisingly, their turnover rates are similar. Westbrook at his peak (late 2010s with the Thunder) had a TOV% of around 16, in line with his career mark of 16.1. Jokic this season had a TOV% of 17 and a career mark of 15.2.
Or lack of assets/scarcity of archetype prevent teams from getting the caliber/types of players they want, but you can always fire a coach.
The media narrative part is them cherry picking who they want to pretend is a genius, which are the ones who have formed relationships with them and feed them information.
If it matters so much, then why can you seemingly not articulate why it supposedly does? Don't spout results without context that were earned on the backs of players.Because coaching matters means players don’t.
A). I didn’t say it matters “so much”. What does “so much” even means. However, coaching does not matter means coaching has no impact, which is demonstratively untrue.
Teams like Houston underperforms due to lack of adequate coaching, a team like the warriors went from 1st round fodder to a dynasty from going from an incompetent coach to a great one. The vast majority of playoff series features at least some level of lineup and strategy changes to counter the other team, which is the most visible aspect of coaching, and they have shown clear differences game to game.
Can a great coach lead a bunch of g leaguers to an nba le, or even the playoffs? I would say no. Would a bunch of Allstars with a terrible coach win a le? It would be tough but I don’t think it’s impossible. That said, a bunch of all stars with a great coach would be a dynasty. So it makes a difference. I’m not even sure what is there to argue.
Again, you can't quantify these theories that have been perpetuated by the agenda driven media to brainwash the masses.
Maybe the Rockets are just a toxic combination of young, immature, poor fitting and not as talented as believed.
Maybe the Warriors, young and perennially a 50 win team under supposedly incompetent Jackson (I never hear about Collins being incompetent for not winning a championship with the Bulls; funny how virtually every black coach/executive/commentator apparently sucks at their job, but it's never about race), just hit their prime and fell ass backwards into the rest I mentioned.
Virtually any coach can make the adjustments (Jokic himself scoffed at the notion of them recently) you claim. They wouldn't sniff this level if they didn't know the game and personnel inside and out. The notion that certain ones are outsmarting other ones is absurd, especially in a largely genized league.
It mostly derives from race. Coaching is associated with ingenuity. Being black isn't. Therefore, if a group of mostly black athletes achieve at the highest level, it must be in large part because of the mostly white voices "leading" them.
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They won 51 games once, that being in Jackson final year. They were under 50 the other 2 years.
Jackson got beat 4-3 to Doc Rivers in Game 7.
Do you know how hard it is to lose to Doc Rivers in a playoff Game 7?
True, the ABC/Disney Warriors won with Potatoe Head and Luke Walton just as much as Fluffy Kerr for a couple long stints.
Still, very sure Kerr offense >>>>>> Jacksons.
I didn't mean it literally, I meant they had coalesced into that.
Jackson and Rivers didn't play and the latter had a better, more experienced team. Funny how that won out.
Very sure Lue took over for Blatt and the Cavaliers pulled the greatest comeback in Finals history against the Warriors, yet he received little to no credit for it. Wonder why.
You might want to check Docs record when he had the "better, more experienced team."
Race aside have you heard the ignoramus comments Jackson regularly makes for ESPN - Disney? If he was anywhere near that stupid as a coach it's a miracle that team drug him to 51 wins.
Not sure how his self righteous hypocritical bull flew with the players either.
Lues punking of the Most Overated Bunch of Inssufferables Ever was an is superbly prop worthy.
On my all time most enjoyable Finals list.
I never said it guaranteed anything, but it doesn't hurt.
No more ignorant than the ones Van Gundy regularly makes, yet he's lauded as an elite analyst and Jackson as some buffoon. Again, wonder why.
Agreed on the last point.
Van Gundy seems to have toned down the idiocy this season. At least the times I've had the volume on.
Particularly on the foul call replays.
Yes they both overall are complete morons.
In a world where Steven A Smith and Skip Bayless have risen to the top of the pay scale, it's surreal.
Been known for years ABC Disney is a run by super pervs so there's that.
What kind of bull drivel is this? Maybe? So you’re not even sure if it’s true? So these billionaires would spend $10 m a year on coaches plus an entire coaching staff because of media driven fallacies? Why would they do so? If coaching doesn’t matter, then pay some random hobo the minimum wage to do the job. Because anybody can do it. Better yet, don’t even have one, the players should be able to just figure it out.
The common perception is that coaching does matter. It is actually your burden of proof to prove otherwise. You have offered none other than rants.
Jokic is indeed a better shooter than Duncan from distance. I have no doubt though that Duncan would adapt and become respectable from 3 in this era.
Super excited to see what gameplan Spoelstra has in game 4. Sucks Herro won’t be playing, but it is what it is.
Great players played to their strengths. They weren't jacks of all trades who could just shift focus and be great elsewhere. Tim wasn't a great free throw shooter either. He used the glass for a reason.
Just saying that I'm pretty sure he could adapt to the new era. He was just that good of a basketball player. Tim Duncan probably had the weirdest free-throw stats in history by a superstar. One season he'd be 60%, and then 80% in another. Just looking at his free-throw stats right now, yeah, he's all over the place.
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Are you that dense? I was speaking rhetorically. Many of the billionaires have been brainwashed too and salaries are a product of the business continuing to grow. If you don't keep up with that, your organization will be seen as lacking credibility.
I don't give a damn about the common perception. I can't "prove" it doesn't just like you can't prove it does (still haven't made a single point on this front, just the usual results without context and the narrative that surrounds them), but I can use common sense.
So you’re making up like some maga trump s or flat earthers and say it is because I think it is.
Coaches have made a difference year after year, putting in hours of work to hone the skills of marginal talent and make them useful in a team setting for years. Larry brown coaching teams to over achieve year over year, pop making use of players like Danny green and Bruce Bowen. Then there are those who made strategic moves to upset other teams consistently. Your sole argument is that we don’t know what would happen if we removed coaches from the equation but you are sure it won’t make a difference, yet we have observed differences being made due to coaching decisions time and again.
Bad coaches make teams under achieve. Good ones help them achieve potential and great ones help them over archive.
And no, businesses lose reinvestment capital if they just choose to poor millions of dollars year over year in a function that serves no purpose.
I have offered plenty of examples just in the previous post. You just chose to ignore it.
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