Such a weird strawman you've pounding on lately. Nobody calls Kerr the GOAT coach. But he's quite good.
Meh he’s ordinary. Curry is quite good. NBA is a players league more than any other professional sport. Kerr has as much impact as their 8th man….totally replaceable.
Poole is a lousy fit on this GS team in general. His only value is that when Steph (inevitably at this point) misses time, he can do a decent impression of him and help keep the team afloat (22-22 since the start of last year without him), at least in the regular season. This has been the case with him going back to the playoffs, when his minutes steadily declined as GS advanced (he was almost unplayable at times in the finals). They aren't hurting for scoring, not with Thompson having recovered from his early season slump. They absolutely cannot have a defensive liability in the backcourt playing alongside Curry, especially considering Draymond's decline and Wiggin's absence.
is this based on Luke Walton coaching half a year of the 73-9 team, then not doing much with the Lakers/Kings? (pre- KD years)
exactly how I see it
I dunno ... parsing out the exact isolated effect of an NBA head coach is nearly impossible for us as fans, with all they have to do both during games and behind the scenes. But of course the coach is always the lowest hanging fruit for fan criticism in all sports.
Reminds me of Phil Jackson, who people kept panning as a coach even as his teams kept winning championships. Now I fully know I have no idea if either Phil or Steve are really great coaches or not (obviously both had great players), but at some point their body of work has to mean something.
It means they had great players?
Only one: Jalen Rose’s 2002-03 Bulls.
And he made fun on a senile old man last night.Happy 35th, old man!
(per 36 minutes this season)
30.8 points on .668 true shooting
.580 2fg% / .436% 3fg% / .922 ft%
6.5 rebounds
6.5 assists
Still not quite washed.
"Washed Curry" was one of the all-time clunkersHappy 35th, old man!
(per 36 minutes this season)
30.8 points on .668 true shooting
.580 2fg% / .436% 3fg% / .922 ft%
6.5 rebounds
6.5 assists
Still not quite washed.
Yup and baits morris into getting ejected. The full draymond experience.
Eh, they're two extremely limited players who were excellent in a couple of ways. Rodman wouldn't have been who he was if he hadn't played on the bad boys pistons and the jordan bulls, just as Draymond wouldn't be the same if he didn't play alongside the best collection of shooters in history. He's a dirty POS and the amount of rope he gets from the refs is unbelievable, but he's the reason why those early Warriors teams were so good defensively. I don't even know if Rodman was the best defender on his own team most of the time.
Hard hard disagree. Any team in the league, rodman wouldve still been one of the greatest rebounders and defenders of all time.
Sure, but his complete and total inability to do anything on offense (other than rebound) would have made him a weaker player in most systems.
They still had to lose games 6 and 7. Speaking of game 7, Draymond put together an all-time performance. By Bref's gamescore metric, it was his single best playoff game out of 146 total games - 32/15/9, 11-15 shooting including 6-8 from 3, with just 2 turnovers. I'm loathe to blame that series loss on Draymond.
And it doesn't matter because the rest of the team can't score unless Curry creates a wide open look for a teammate, and on the other end even they can't close out defensive possessions.
I'll save people from having to find it since I already did. What the hell? How does review not overturn this? There isn't even any contact for the refs to lean on for justification.
If the Celtics happen to host Game 7 of the ECF finals, we may have to thank one Aaron Threesmith.
This is the caveat to all Celtics' concerns: this happens to everyone.
