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Beautiful!!
Job. Well. Done.
Also, I like the look of absolute disgust and embarrasment on the chick Kerr's with...
Beautiful!!
Hey they rolled the dice, and it came out craps. They really had to make a move to change their makeup. They could never beat SA or LA if they maintained the statis quo,so you can not blame management for this. They need to get a couple of very good defenders to replace Hill and Barbosa, like say a Shane Battie and an Artest like guard.......until they do that, they have no sot against SA
What they had wasn't working against the Spurs in the playoffs, but what Kerr did was panic. Looking at the real weaknesses at the time:
1) Rebounding
2) Team defense
3) Discipline
Instead of considering ways to change these Kerr just went out and tied up $40+ million in a guy who was going to help rebounding, but create these problems:
1) Lack of 3 pt shooting
2) Team defense and especially P&R defense
3) Completely change the iden y of a team mid season
It was a panic induced move that wasn't well thought out. Replacing Hill and Barbosa with Artest or whoever isn't going to change anything as long as the team defense is non-existent. Last night's game basically had Shaq switching off onto Parker or Ginobili on the P&R and then getting left out to dry when they blew right past him or backed out and shot over him. Also, how many times was Stoudemire so late on help rotations that he was under the basket as the Spurs (TD a couple of times) were throwing it down or laying it up in his grill?
as I said, they were not getting past SA in playoffs no matter what...they caught the wrong opponent again, that is all.
There are many many teams left in the Spurs playoff wake the last few years....you know
Just admit you were wrong, Kerr.
Kerr has always been clutch for the Spurs!
They caught the opponent they brought Shaq in to beat.
ironic, huh?
I just can not rag on Kerr, I love the guy. He is was huge in our 2nd championship run.....I will always love the guy for that.
The perfect definition of it.ironic, huh?
Well, you can still keep your man crush on the guy but admit that he acted hastily, possibly paniced, and now has a huge albatross of a contract on a player that Pop has exposed as a liability.
Why all this Kerr hate. He is a great guy. He took a gamble and just didn't have the right pieces.
Ouch!Kerr has always been clutch for the Spurs!
and until that's gone...rebuilding is just a dream.
Bonner Dynasty, your siggy is das uber gheyenstein.
It should tell you a lot about Steve Kerr that 99% of all Suns fans are calling out Mike D'Antoni, and only 1% are calling out Steve Kerr.
The man has balls, and that's the kind of GM we need. We weren't going anywhere with Shawn Marion, either, so I hardly see the Shaq trade as an indictment of Kerr's GM abilities. Rather, it's an indictment of D'Antoni's system that he couldn't implement one of the better centers in the game with one of the best point guards in the game and one of the best power forwards in the game.
All the puzzle pieces fit together fine, but D'Antoni just couldn't figure out how to construct the big picture, let alone what it should look alike.
Kerr made a gutsy move and this series was closer than the 0-3 record indicates. Shaq was actually pretty impressive in the first two games. He quit on the team last night however.
D'Antoni was at fault here...It was his system that brought Amare up through a style of play that required little to know defense, when he has all the assets to be a great one. It is his system that didn't find a way of hiding Nash on D. It was his system that didn't adjust to the PnR last night.
So Amare should have been taught to play D while Nash should have been hidden on D?
You can't win a le with a complete defensive liability on D from your star PG position. D'Antoni is what he is, an offensive guru. He doesnt coach defense and never will. He's another version of Don Nelson. The Suns hired him knowing this, and Kerr should have known this before mortgaging that team's future on shaq when the defense wasnt in place to begin with. Did Kerr not learn anything from Pop? Or did his ego lead him to believe he could do it without defense?
Spur Fans' irrational love for Kerr makes sense now.
As was mentioned duringa broadcast, all the key players in the decision approved the Shaq trade.. Sarver, Kerr, D'Antoni, Nash. Just curious though who had the initial Idea. My guess is Kerr.
Just because you're a role player who's made some clutch shots doesn't mean you can run a franchise.
It will be nice having Kerr back in the broadcast booth next season.
Eh this Kerr hate is getting way too much. The dude made a bad decision but has made several good ones however. The coach is pretty much the suck on top of it all.
I really think what's happened to him, done by us of course, is just enough said. I mean look at them for goodness sake. It's not like Kerr is making those Shaq like quotes in the other thread.
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