martin wrote:

BlueKnickers wrote:

fitzfarm wrote:Man Jose has to take a seat to Kolek we need his passing to get the second unit rolling … we should have been pounding the ball into towns all game…

Also still blown away we fired thibs for mike brown. In my opinion this team was better coached under thibs.

Thibs didn't invest in Kolek though and probably wouldn't play him now either

Thibs played the young guys when they were ready and there was a rotation opportunity. Like Deuce.

Yes and No.

Thibs biggest and best move was moving Grimes into the starting line-up after starting the season with a terrible record because Fournier was a lamp post and it saved that season. Thibs was on his way to getting fired if he didn't make that move and it was one of the best decisions he ever made. They went on a run after that with Grimes' defense and shooting in the mix.

Thibs got fired because he wouldn't expand his rotation and only until late in last year's playoffs did he do it after everyone was screaming at him to go deeper into the bench. When he did it helped, but it was already too late.

Thibs did not invest in Kolek. The few times Kolek played outside of garbage time he played really well and Thibs responded by benching him. There was no correlation to the player's performance, just Thibs own internal logic.

The meme that only when they were ready did Thibs play someone is a corny myth. It was only true some of the time. Thibs had his strengths and weaknesses, but one of his immense weaknesses was the inability to make in-game adjustments. His roster changes often took weeks or months to happen due to his rigidity. His substitution patterns were almost always fixed and grew stale and unresponsive to live scenarios. This is why opposing coaches were able to exploit us so much, because Thibs often let mismatches continue due to his stubborn rotation patterns. He was not spontaneous when improvisation was required.

4th seed might even be preferred to the 3rd seed at this point with Cade's situation. Doesn't seem like a huge difference in opponent, although TOR is obv the matchup we want.

BlueKnickers wrote:

martin wrote:

BlueKnickers wrote:

fitzfarm wrote:Man Jose has to take a seat to Kolek we need his passing to get the second unit rolling … we should have been pounding the ball into towns all game…

Also still blown away we fired thibs for mike brown. In my opinion this team was better coached under thibs.

Thibs didn't invest in Kolek though and probably wouldn't play him now either

Thibs played the young guys when they were ready and there was a rotation opportunity. Like Deuce.

Yes and No.

Thibs biggest and best move was moving Grimes into the starting line-up after starting the season with a terrible record because Fournier was a lamp post and it saved that season. Thibs was on his way to getting fired if he didn't make that move and it was one of the best decisions he ever made. They went on a run after that with Grimes' defense and shooting in the mix.

Thibs got fired because he wouldn't expand his rotation and only until late in last year's playoffs did he do it after everyone was screaming at him to go deeper into the bench. When he did it helped, but it was already too late.

Thibs did not invest in Kolek. The few times Kolek played outside of garbage time he played really well and Thibs responded by benching him. There was no correlation to the player's performance, just Thibs own internal logic.

The meme that only when they were ready did Thibs play someone is a corny myth. It was only true some of the time. Thibs had his strengths and weaknesses, but one of his immense weaknesses was the inability to make in-game adjustments. His roster changes often took weeks or months to happen due to his rigidity. His substitution patterns were almost always fixed and grew stale and unresponsive to live scenarios. This is why opposing coaches were able to exploit us so much, because Thibs often let mismatches continue due to his stubborn rotation patterns. He was not spontaneous when improvisation was required.

You thought Kolek was a playable rotation player last year? Especially on a team with deep playoffs intentions?

Cause he wasn't and that was clear as day

SergioNYK wrote:

Philc1 wrote:2.5 games out of the 2 seed and 7 games left. At least we get a favorable matchup in round 1 with either raptors or hawks

I do not want to play a healthy Philly or Miami.

I would have liked to get home court advantage against the C’s but yes. Hawks without Trae or Toronto who we own is a way softer matchup rd 1

We should be on the phone with the commissioner after a game like that file an actual complaint and ask for a investigation….
With the way sports betting is? I don’t put anything past the refs … they want there bag too.

The amount of whistles that were absolute BS in this game, especially for SGA was any touch . Meanwhile Kat and Brunson get man handled with zero whistles when that happens … when Kat got the flagrant foul they should have overturned it prior to the elbow Kat 100% got fouled . Again it really makes you wonder if the nba is rigged.

That’s trash and that’s ruining the nba … The NBA needs to put a stop on one sided refereeing.

fitzfarm wrote:Back to thibs, he had this team more prepared, he didn’t accept anything less than 1000% effort . We were one game away from the chip and we dethroned the Celtics the series before …

I hate to say it because I want us in the chip but we have to turn up the volume by a lot if we even want to get to the eastern conference finals let alone the actual championship.

We need to focus on round one.

And yet nothing changes.

There are reasons for this? Got to be?

I don't get it.

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