06-23-2021, 10:10 AM
(06-23-2021, 09:21 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: Sure, taking his hopes out of the whole post, his hopes are the same as most everyone's hopes (mine and yours included). When you look at the rest of the post, basically where he believes this thing is most likely going (or at the very least, might be going) he says:
"As they say, it is an upgrade-game. At the end of the day, is all of this an upgrade? We don't know yet. Better soft skills and worse X's and O's from Mosley could be an upgrade. A more clearly defined hierarchy and youthful energy might supersede Donnie's vast experience. Maybe not. I'm at least willing to wait for the actual announcements."
My logic says that's about as optimistic as you can get with the current news we have. It also could turn out to be true. I think I'm going to go back to my wait and see approach, I'll give them as much rope as to wait for training camp and see what moves they have made (or not made) then decide whether or not they get more rope to see how this goes to the TDL.
Honestly, there is a chance that MC (in the short term) allows the new guys to get their say in their collective wants because he wants a bit less heat on himself, or just wants to sit back and evaluate to make sure they work well together. However, once the direction isn't going the way he thinks it should, or a decision or two turns out to be horrible, he'll be right back to where he is now. Instead of just firing a person over making horrible decisions, he inserts himself to "right the ship". That in turn creates the dysfunction we've come to know was there.
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.