SCKingsfan
Bench
Quite a few actually -- I could name at least a dozen without even thinking about it (just to fire them off to prove the point Riley, Avery, Adelman, Bird, Dunleavy, Popovich, Carlisle, Tomjanovich, Ainge, Westphal, either Van Gundy etc.).
Now I can't imagine a coach - rookie, existing, decorated - who could have taken us a lot further this year with the bunch we had. If he is put to the task to have to do so next year, with essentially the same bunch, we might hope to see some slim improvement, but we are talking LOW CEILING on that, and a first and out in the playoffs at best. But I don't think, given the current circumstances, it is fair to see Theus falling into some pattern of being a career playoff outsider as a coach just because his playing days were somewhat that way. We've got to give him a year or two more (if he lasts that long) to "earn" that kind of tag.
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