05-06-2024, 11:04 AM
(05-06-2024, 10:16 AM)omahen Wrote: Based on your very own argument. You claim it is foolish to make a knee-jerk reaction after a single game or series. You continue with a bunch of questions related to decisions based on incomplete information. But this is basically the whole point people (me included) raised. Why now and why not when the season is over and when you have a more complete information.
Wouldn't it feel equally foolish to make a positive reaction after a single series?
I also think your Rivers comparison is way off. Griffin obviously lost the lockerroom. And while Rivers didn't have a great end of regular season, you can't realy blame him for the first round exit due to all the injuries they had.
I guess my primary objection is that we fans rarely, if ever, have complete information. Certainly far less information than people inside the organization. But we make inordinately strong conclusions based on data that's sketchy, at best.
More time = more data, for sure. So yes, to extol a coach's greatness after a single win or series is definitely akin to blasting him over a loss. I tend to do it a fair amount on this board, mostly to torque the Negative Nancies who are so quick to blame the coach for a loss.
How do we know that Adrian Griffin "lost" the locker room? A rumor that got printed somewhere? How do we know it wasn't one specific player, like Giannis, that went to the GM and said "He's got to go"? How do we know that management didn't discover his drug abuse, and fired him? How do we know he wasn't sleeping with the owners' daughter?
And why can't we hold Doc Rivers responsible for their horrible record after he took over? The Dallas fan base certainly would have been up in arms if Kidd had performed at that level, during that period of time. Or lost in the first round. We're fickle and knee-jerk like that.
I'm certainly not making a judgment on Doc Rivers. He seems like a guy with proven character, who treats people fairly, and has had a measure of success over an extended period of time. Was the failure of his team due to his decisions? I simply can't answer that, since I don't have full information. Perhaps it was just the ripple effect from making a mid-season change, which is almost always disruptive.