NEWS: Donnie out | Nico Harrison (Nike) as Pres/GM | Fin as VP | Dirk as Advisor

[ItsGoTime]

To be honest I think the headcoach is the least important person at the moment.

I agree there is a likely trade-off between worse X´s and O´s vs. better team chemistry/workplace environment. To be honest I felt that Carlisle´s free-flowing offense always insiniuated more than it was. Free-flowing always sounds so cool, innovative and players can express themselves, but I always found the playbook limited, rigid, lazy and roleplayers could hardly ever express themselves. Now we can argue whether that was a problem of skill or opportunity, probably a little of both.

Anyway back to the orginial point: The new head coach can certainly make some strategic adjustments that Cuban likely won´t interfer with like finding more space for younger players in the regular season for example. Not trying to maximize every line-up to 100%, but rather sometimes only play at 80-85% capacity  to invest in the development of young players for future gains. Can nobody tell me that, if the tanking Thunder or Pistons play starting fives with less than 200 NBA games experience combined, you need to run out your full veteran crew for 48 minutes and can´t find 20 minutes for Green, Terry or Bey.
If you can´t win those games regularly, then your overall squad level is not good enough to compete for a championship anyway.

While this is all good and necessary, it won´t change the fundamental problem how we think about the draft, about asset management, about how to build a team around Luka, how to acquire talent. So obviously you want a good coach over a bad coach, but we already had an above average coach and he could never sniff the 2nd round in the last 10 years.

The way things stand right now Bob might actually be our best hope. While I think his ability to match his advanced data with eyetest evaluation is lacking (see Josh Green or Delon Wright), I´m somewhat hopeful that he can at least provide some modern ideas on how to run an NBA franchise stragetically. Now we´d only need an eyetest and people´s GM to combine their strengths.

The quote was about more than the coach though. Putting fresh perspective on this team (GM and coaching) is the only hope I can attach to at this point.