Oklahoma City has fired coach Scott Brooks, league source tells Yahoo Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) April 22, 2015
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Oklahoma City has fired coach Scott Brooks, league source tells Yahoo Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) April 22, 2015
lol. just lol.
HE GONE
Monty Williams haters saying "that could have been us!" in 3, 2, 1...
— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) April 22, 2015
Seeing the Scott Brooks news as I wait for Monty Williams to talk at practice, man...the ripple effect of this shot: pic.twitter.com/44Jln8KiTt
— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) April 22, 2015
Hearing OKC wants Billy Donovan or Kevin Ollie... and if they can't get either one, they might wait to see if Bulls/Thibs self-destructs.
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) April 22, 2015
List of head coaches w/ longer tenures on their current teams than Monty Williams just fell to 3: Pop, Spoelstra, Carlisle
— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) April 22, 2015
Truth, but he won 2 titles.
Willing to bet this made Okc a little less endearing to durant. Come on down big fella
But we're not, and we have the longest tenured coach with a losing record. Chomp on that.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...NBA_stats.html
while my like for Monty is on the same level of like of Les Miles (both can leave you so very, very frustrated)... considering everything he's gone through (ownership questions, CP3 trade, a full-on rebuild & injuries galore)... he has upped the team's win total every year since the rebuild began... it's been so frustrating b/c it has taken seemingly forever to finish the rebuild and finally see what the team can do at full potential
edit: it's the most quiet admirable job possible
I say admirable b/c I mean it's the best he can do... which may not always be enough... as in I think most people would say we did an admirable job in the 2 games in Oakland but just didn't get any wins
Considering where he started, where he dropped to, and now here...I am still not overly impressed. Some might be, but I have little confidence that Monty can be anything more than a players best friend.
This certainly will add more fuel to the "Kevin Durant is leaving next off-season" fire.
One aspect of our making the playoffs that hasn't been addressed yet is the effect it will have on our future FA signings. Players will see us as legit now, especially since we went to the playoffs with such a young team. Don't think that Durant isn't interested in playing with AD... Something to think about.
Thibs to OKC?
LOLOLOLOLOL
He'll blend well with their injury-prone superstars.
And that is admirable. This is his second time in the playoffs, and he has an up and coming team, but what are the reasons want to keep him around? #1 is always, "because it will make AD happy." And #2 "He can't make adjustments, but if you give him better assistant coaches..." There is little merit in keeping him here if a better coach can be found. Winning cures all ills, and if Montys adjustments depend on his assistants, how responsible is he for wins anyway?
Simmons spitting some hard truth about Brooks right now. Pointing out that Brooks was saved by Reggie Jackson having a career game in Memphis last year and how he lost control of Westbrook this season. That even with the injuries they have some nice players. Saying what I've been saying, the box score looks nice but was he actually helping make his team better? Is that version of Westbrook going to win you a playoff series? They made it where they did by basically beating bad teams and not beating many if any good teams during westbrooks stay hoarding games.
Put a Brad Stevens on that team and your telling me he couldn't of gotten a few more wins against good competition even with those injuries?