I know it won't happen...
But they should fire Natt and make Geoff sit on that bench the rest of the season and take his own freaking medicine.
In my dreams... I know Geoff has enough pull to avoid such a humiliation. But it is his messy plate, make him eat it.
I don't think keeping Theus would have made much difference, aside from smaller blowouts.
Watching this team right now is like watching the Warriors from 5-6 years ago. No personnel, no consistency, no direction. Reggie wasn't going to be the guy who gave us any of that.
Even if the team's not in contention, I think having an identity is important, all the good teams have an identity. Right now, our identity is: "try not to lose by 30".
I'd agree that it's a little worse under Natt than it probably would have been under Theus.
However, getting rid of Theus early, and having it plainly out there that we have no coach or direction helps set the table for a new direction to come in, since they 'have to' be looking for someone even now. (please, please, please).
I want this quote framed and hung in my office! WOW! Brilliant post!Theus, was, and is, good riddance. He can now take that overstuffed ego back to college ball where he can prove his amazingness by bullying young kids. Natt's even greater incompetence is not going to retroactively make me pine for the good old days of a 6-18 coach who's mouth talked a bigger game than his coaching. There is no golden era sheen to put on Reggie's last days. He was fired for us getting repeatedly blown off the floor (or that was the tipper -- he was fired for being an *** and the blowout were just the excuse). We have merely continued to do so.
And this losing is damn good for us. Most of those who want to whine about that sort of statement have given up on it by this point, but it remains true. If having Natt here instead of Theus gets us a higher draft pick that is 100%, completely, a good thing. If falling out of the playoff hunt by January means that our hyper-cautious front office is jarred out of fantasyland and finally makes a major push to clear out our veteran contracts at the trade deadline, that is 100% a good thing. And you learn a lot about your players in this sort of mess too. What they are, and what they aren't. Who fights and who pouts. By the time this year is over there will be a lot fewer illusions about the guys we do keep, their talent and their heart, and we can build a better structure because of it. We have finally cratered, finally hit bottom. And until you do that you can't ever start climbing back up again.
I don't think keeping Theus would have made much difference, aside from smaller blowouts.
Watching this team right now is like watching the Warriors from 5-6 years ago. No personnel, no consistency, no direction. Reggie wasn't going to be the guy who gave us any of that.
Even if the team's not in contention, I think having an identity is important, all the good teams have an identity. Right now, our identity is: "try not to lose by 30".
Theus, was, and is, good riddance. He can now take that overstuffed ego back to college ball where he can prove his amazingness by bullying young kids. Natt's even greater incompetence is not going to retroactively make me pine for the good old days of a 6-18 coach who's mouth talked a bigger game than his coaching. There is no golden era sheen to put on Reggie's last days. He was fired for us getting repeatedly blown off the floor (or that was the tipper -- he was fired for being an *** and the blowout were just the excuse). We have merely continued to do so.
And this losing is damn good for us. Most of those who want to whine about that sort of statement have given up on it by this point, but it remains true. If having Natt here instead of Theus gets us a higher draft pick that is 100%, completely, a good thing. If falling out of the playoff hunt by January means that our hyper-cautious front office is jarred out of fantasyland and finally makes a major push to clear out our veteran contracts at the trade deadline, that is 100% a good thing. And you learn a lot about your players in this sort of mess too. What they are, and what they aren't. Who fights and who pouts. By the time this year is over there will be a lot fewer illusions about the guys we do keep, their talent and their heart, and we can build a better structure because of it. We have finally cratered, finally hit bottom. And until you do that you can't ever start climbing back up again.
The players show no heart whatsoever under Natt. There was some spunkyness and hussle under Theus. We still lost, but you get the impression that the players at least TRIED under him as a coach.Exactly, that has been my observation too.
Yeah, but which five? That is the question.Coaches are over rated. I doubt they make more than 5 games in a season difference one way or another...
So let me ask you this. If we get blown out by 50+ points in each of the next ten games are you going to still be saying that this is, "good for us"?
How about 60 points? At what point does the magnitude of the losses overwhelm the ping ball contest? I think there is such a point, and we're are very close to it.