Going on record now, I will be big mad if JBB is shit canned this spring/summer...RJ went out of his way to praise the ATO at the start of the 4th and later talked about what a fantastic coaching job JBB did tonight with great adjustments. He’s likely well aware of some of the criticism directed JBB’s way and swatted that down like Mobley rejecting Franz Wagner.
Would love to hear your assessment on this away game blowout win over the best team in the east……lMan people really do have short memories here, one win against an awful Orlando team at home and suddenly he’s a good coach…? We got hella lucky Orlando are an awful road team. They couldn’t shoot for shit the second half.
JB still has not won a road game in the play offs
His teams still struggle to hit 100 points in playoff games and that’s now over a very large sample size.
We could have won this series 4-1 / 4-2 even with the injuries. Orlando are really really bad. And we have Donovan Mitchell
The iso heavy offense is garbage, objectively. We also play so fucking slow it’s excruciating. Against a team that presses like Orlando does you need to push the pace get the ball up the floor quickly. Not take 8 seconds to get the ball over half court every fricken offense to then jack up a contested 3. How many times this series did Orlando steal the ball off a pick n roll attempt? Just shitty predictable baby simple offense
Go watch the western conference game, we would have gotten smoked by any team in the west 1 through 8 and it’s not even close, Knicks, healthy bucks, 76rs, Miami with a healthy Butler beat us also. We just got lucky we played a dog shit team led by a 22 year old
RJ went out of his way to praise the ATO at the start of the 4th and later talked about what a fantastic coaching job JBB did tonight with great adjustments. He’s likely well aware of some of the criticism directed JBB’s way and swatted that down like Mobley rejecting Franz Wagner.
Going on record now, I will be big mad if JBB is shit canned this spring/summer...
EDIT:
Only if Don is like absolutely no way, which I have a hard time imagining..
It’s been the weirdest shit ever, but I think JB has actually been pretty good in this years playoffs. What is wrong with me?
I will give JB credit. I still think on offense it's mostly players just executing, but on defense he drew up an effective gameplan and communicated it well, and it was wildly successful.
Of course, having such an incredible defensive player like Evan Mobley is a big reason why it worked, but it worked nevertheless.
I do not want to become a W Pacers fan but I will!Oh I think plenty of people will be big mad over JBB this offseason.
I do not want to become a W Pacers fan but I will!