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Triumph36
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he's gonna be really good.
also, nice - albeit unsurprising - wojbomb for your early morning:
View: https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/666993842311315456
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Unsurprising? I'm somewhat floored. 4-7 is 4-7. 11 games in. They hit the panic button extremely early.
Alvin Gentry is next. NO is on the receiving end of some bad karma for firing Monty.
Also, is it safe to label AD injury-prone?
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they only have 1 impressive win (okc) and are at the bottom of the league on both ends of the court. as i said yesterday, injuries are killing them and it's not entirely mchale's fault, but he is not without a lot of guilt either. would it have been preferable to get healthy, then evaluate the coach? sure. but shit is cutthroat when you are contending. if you think a coaching change is necessary, there really isn't that big a window to do it and still contend that season.
it will be interesting to see who they go after for the full time job. a certain former rockets head coach, maybe? or the former assistant to that head coach? m jackson or brooks would be amusing.
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GS has won 12 in a row and reading through the post game quotes they sound miserable they only won by 5. All the player quotes talking about how they need to improve on things and do things better.
That group really "gets it". They had one of the younger rosters in recent history to win a championship, so to see them come back as ferociously hungry after winning a title as they have been is somewhat surprising. I thought they might have had a bit of a let down. It's been totally the opposite.
Having this kind of start without their head coach is that much more interesting.
I wonder how Kerr coming back is going to effect them.
That group really "gets it". They had one of the younger rosters in recent history to win a championship, so to see them come back as ferociously hungry after winning a title as they have been is somewhat surprising. I thought they might have had a bit of a let down. It's been totally the opposite.
Having this kind of start without their head coach is that much more interesting.
I wonder how Kerr coming back is going to effect them.
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We have a chance, but it is a bit worrying that they are 12-0 with a win margin of 15 ppg and we are barely beating the sixers while not looking nearly as dominant in our wins
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That would be a disastrous choice. Coaching isn't the problem, they have a talent issue. With a shallow bench and two injuries, they have to play boaderline D Leaguers. I hope they realize that and make a trade.
BTW, McHale will be in Minnesota by the start of next season.
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I've been saying this for the last 2 years, but Pelicans should have blown it up. Trade away everyone but AD. They are wasting his good years by being mediocre enough to not get top picks.
Look at the Thunder. A couple good drafts in a row and they fast tracked to success. Pelicans should get a couple high picks, and hopefully clear the cap and hope a couple decent players are willing to come via free agency and they could become a serious playoff team in a couple years.
Look at the Thunder. A couple good drafts in a row and they fast tracked to success. Pelicans should get a couple high picks, and hopefully clear the cap and hope a couple decent players are willing to come via free agency and they could become a serious playoff team in a couple years.
Everyone has been talking shit about their title from last season. It really is no surprise to me that they are playing they way they are. You need an edge to repeat and all the people discrediting their win last season gave it to them.
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thunder not exactly a great comparison because their run of drafts is virtually unprecedented. three future top 10 players in the league in three consecutive drafts? and ibaka too? that is insane. "a couple of good drafts" couldn't be more of an understatement.
they also could've ended up like the kings, missing on high pick year after year. the cavs were fortunate enough to have the summer of 2014, otherwise they would've been dangerously close to that, too. stringing together a couple years of high picks is a small part of the road to success; there are tons of ways to fuck it up after the lottery balls have landed.
i like the idea of a total teardown in general, but not all owners and front offices have that kind of patience. realistically they have not done too bad constructing a team around davis. it's just that it happened when the west was the significantly stronger conference, and they had a run of bad injury issues and bad luck on top of it (see: what happened to anderson). their record this year especially is super misleading.