11-10-2023, 10:15 AM
(11-09-2023, 10:22 PM)Ghost of Podkolzin Wrote: Watched the IND/MIL game. RC has Indy looking great. MIL looks broken. Middleton seemingly will never fully recover; he's lost his outside shot which usually means injured lower body. I don't think it can be overstated how much this team misses Jrue.
And his in-game adjustments are brilliant. We go from a savant to just an idiot.
We went from a top-5 coach to a bottom-5 coach. Only Mark Cuban could put lipstick on that pig of downgrade.
I'd love to see what RC would do with Luka and Kyrie on the floor together. That should be a really easy puzzle for an NBA coach to solve and would make for an unstoppable offense. Unfortunately, Kidd hasn't been able to fit those two pieces together very well.
Carlisle left because Cuban made him uncomfortable with job security and had an analytics guy stepping on his toes. Carlisle made a smart decision and Cuban countered with a stupid replacement. We may win a lot of games this season but that will be because of the brilliance of Luka and Kyrie. If we win less than 45 games this season, we should hopefully have a new coach next season. It would be difficult to find a downgrade from Jason Kidd.