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Do you think Westbrook is coachable or controllable?
Durant and Westbrook shedding crocodile tears for Brooks in 3,2,1...
Do you think Westbrook is coachable or controllable?
There is not any great coaches out there. Brooks sucks but who are the Thunder going to hire? Retreads like Adelman and Nelson are retired while the remaining pool of candidates are crap. I could see them hiring some guy like Kevin Ollie who will be the same as Brooks except have better motivational speeches.
Not that I think Fisher is a good coach, but he will probably lobby for the job to escape NY. He will get Durant and Westbrook to lobby for him, then he will tell everybody the move is for personal reasons and nothing to do with NY.
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It was long overdue. OKC is a dip ISO team living on talent. Brooks enabled Westbrook and Durant to chuck any shot imaginable with no offensive structure whatsoever and that's the way those knuckleheads liked it. What undisciplined player wouldn't like that? With Brooks at the helm OKC hasn't evolved in years and as long as he was there the stars weren't going to mature. With a real coach OKC could be a nightmare to the league.
Scott Brooks is awful and needed to go, but this is not the time to do it. Blaming him for failing to make the playoffs when your first, second, and third options all missed significant chunks of the season just screams bad management.
Billy Donovan rumored. Do it presti!
Woj pretty much called this on the Dan Patrick show last week. Dude is so connected....
Tibs is a great coach, but I wonder if his reputation for running his players into the ground would hurt him with the injury-prone Thunder.
That and his penchant for having subpar teams get into the playoffs may have more to do with him being in the East, especially because those teams make the playoffs, and then promptly lose.
The hits keep ing coming for us, don't they? We piss away 2nd seed, lose HCA throughout the Western Conference playoffs, give OKC a lottery pick, and now basically forced the firing of Brooks. Talk about being snakebit.
I don't think this helps OKC. Doesnt hurt them either but it's all irrelevant if Durant is still hurt or bolts. Those fractures aren't to be messed with. It's not like OKC has any promising players to rebuild around. That Harden trade killed them forever
Not at this point.
Damn, now OKC will actually be a good team. Wonder if they'll go for Thibbs.
Thibbs is not a good o coach
This is a team who rely on the Durant / Westbrook to shoot 60% all the time. That was how they made to the play-offs last year when each of then had 20+ FGAs. Now, the other one is injured, and by just a Pelican adv over them lost the seeding, well that's something.
For me, that's an accomplishment considering they are in a loaded Western Conference.
Utah is a good team but didn't make it.
Presti has officially stated that Brooks' firing was not done as a response to this season alone, but rather based on OKC's failure to evolve beyond a two-man show under his tenure and without any signs to indicate that was going to change moving forward. Nobody would blame this season on Brooks, but why waste another season of Durant's already declining career on a coach that isn't going to install a system through which the team contends for a le? If Presti has no faith in Brooks going forward, and he has basically said that he didn't, there's no sense in not firing him right away.The hits keep ing coming for us, don't they? We piss away 2nd seed, lose HCA throughout the Western Conference playoffs, give OKC a lottery pick, and now basically forced the firing of Brooks. Talk about being snakebit.
The real mistake may be that Presti didn't consult the players at all about the firing. Not that the decision is theirs, but it would have at least been a show of good faith to include the team in the process. Brooks was popular amongst OKC's players, particularly Durant, and if a new coach comes in and robs him and Westbrook of their 20+ FGA a night routines, damaging either of their future MVP candidacies, that could lead to resentment and unrest.
not really. Westbrook is uncoachable. Durant does what he wants and you cater to him a la lebron, and fire the coach when lebron/durant choke.
Doesnt matter who comes in, the Thunder are held hostage by Durant and Westbrook.
Thibs is one of the best coaches in the league, only the idiots that focus on his one flaw(over-playing his guys) think otherwise..he's also been dealt a horrible card with Rose on the roster, he's a cancer..
He has only had 1 team with notable talent and they reached the ECFs with a shoot-first, inefficient PG as their best player..
I kind of agree with this..I love Westbrook, as everybody here knows, but I wouldn't want him on my team, nor would I want to coach him
Durant is similar, too..
They'll probably hire another player's coach with limited x's and o's ability, and putting no accountability on players, like Brooks did..
Thibodeau would be a terrible fit with the Thunder, he would clash immediately with Westbrook IMO..
The rumor is the Florida coach Bill Donovan but I am not sure a team that was given no guidance and free rein under Brooks would respond to any kind of structure from a rookie NBA coach. IMHO it would require a very strong hand/well respected coach to get Westbrook to come to heel. KD not so much but Russ is a different animal.
Well, thanks for the info.
Could be one move to keep Durant. Find a better coach. I don't think Durant is done.
In related news, Sam Presti announced he will no longer watch Franklin and Bash.
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