Fire Walton
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It's time like these that I remind myself that Walton turned Brook Lopez into a minimum contract player on the Lakers. Dude sucks at coaching.
Each season so far, the mantra each preseason is 'defense, defense, defense.' The problem is the effing offense. It's horrible. One action every time down and then ISO. Every year. It's a joke. Blaming it on defense is the easy way out. Their offense is holding them back from winning close games.
Each season so far, the mantra each preseason is 'defense, defense, defense.' The problem is the effing offense. It's horrible. One action every time down and then ISO. Every year. It's a joke. Blaming it on defense is the easy way out. Their offense is holding them back from winning close games.
Sadly the team may not be able to hire anyone better than Mike D'Antoni at this point but don't be deluded into believing that he will ever take a team into the NBA finals. I could go on a major criticism but what's the point he certainly an upgrade from where we're at. Lots of good teams have started the road to improvement by hiring him as a placeholder and that's good enough for me right now.
Im all for it. Look how well he handled all of Monte's prospects. We were leagues above everyone at summer league.
Screw it. Get rid of the entire Vlade era (Walton, Fox, Buddy, Barnes, Holmes), start over with Hali/Mitchell as established core, try to get Ramsey/King/Metu to pop this season and let McNair actually get to pick his coach. Maybe you hold onto Holmes just because he works so freaking well with Hali and he's damn cheap for a quality starting big. Imagine how much he could actually pop with a coach who realizes he's like a top 3 PnR big.
Screw it. Get rid of the entire Vlade era (Walton, Fox, Buddy, Barnes, Holmes), start over with Hali/Mitchell as established core, try to get Ramsey/King/Metu to pop this season and let McNair actually get to pick his coach. Maybe you hold onto Holmes just because he works so freaking well with Hali and he's damn cheap for a quality starting big. Imagine how much he could actually pop with a coach who realizes he's like a top 3 PnR big.
Interesting point. In Walton's one "good" year (acting head coach for '15-'16 Warriors), the team got a total of 3439 minutes out of big men for the entire season. Since you expect to get about 4000 minutes a season out of a single position, that team played less than one full-time big man. On top of being one of the great all-time teams, maybe one reason why Walton didn't tank the team. He didn't have to coach for a big man.
Kings need a coach that are tough minded and get into players ears if they missed their assignments. This team just doesn't play smart ball. When the other is in foul trouble, you should try to attack and draw foul, when a player is hot, you don't go away from them...when Fox is struggling, you don't go to him for last shot. It's just little thing like that that can mean the difference between winning and losing and this team is just not smart.
Bobby has proven players play hard for him and win (summer league and a limited sample size in g league). If the problem is all coaching then we will see results. If its the players then we have an issue. I think the Kinga need to decide see which one is the problem and make a decision. I wouldn't change both immediately bc now you have two different variables. Pick the problem. Make the change and re assess.
I liked what Bobby did in the summer league, but coaching G league guys versus players with long term multi-million dollar guaranteed contracts is apples to zebras. Everybody on this team wants to eat, but few want to cook or do the dishes. I really get the feeling that a lot of players are saying to themselves, "If so-and-so isn't doing the dirty work like he should, then why should I?" Can Bobby dictate that players play their roles? It's an open question. But we do know at this point that Walton cannot do it.
Bobby Jackson. Perfect low cost guy in case they do have rebuild, and in the interim he has a history with THESE players, and has a history on the development side. Also, in summer league he did run Waltons systems on both ends early but then ditched them to run the things that got them the title. He pressured the ball on defense and ran a spread pick and roll offense. Things this current group should also be focusing on.
Worst case then Monte needs to intervene. This isn't a perfect roster build wise for sure and too many mouths is a problem if players create that problem. And it will be a problem if they don't win regardless. Bobby isn't a fresh fish either. He's never gotten a lead job but he's been working his way up for darn near a decade already.
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