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?
I mean... I can be mad at Monty if he was doing same stuff since year 1. Every season, he has gotten better and knows how to develop players. I got to give him that credit. And this year, I have been way more frustrated with our players more so than Monty. Our guys are still young and got to keep developing them.
If anyone tells me the Pels should fire Monty & hire Scott Brooks, you're getting blocked. I don't think anyone will, but just a warning.
— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) April 22, 2015
If Lebron won Spoelstra those titles then why doesn't every coach that has ever coached LeBron have a title?
You are kind of proving the point. They would be a contender with decent health. Because that roster is that good. Westbrook, Durant, Ibaka, Kanter, Morrow, Adams, Augustine. You have two parfuavly top 5 players and a great supporting cast. Give anyone that team and they will get to the second round at least when healthy. Bring in a guy that knows his X's and O's and can get a guy like Westbrook to buy into a system that better helps the team and they will unfortunately be the favorites every year.
Brooks was a good guy that players love and brings good values to a team but like Monty he is really not a great X's and O's guy or has found a way to maximize his roster as a whole. I think Monty is better then Brookd because he is a good teacher and a good motivator at times but neither couldn't be upgraded.
By this same logic do we credit Mike Brown for developing Lebron James? Scott Brooks for Harden, Westbrook and Durant? And if so does that justify keeping a guy if he hits a wall in his abilities?
I think Monty has done better then average with what he has been dealt over the years and I am interested to see how he adjusts and adapts through this series because that will tell me a lot. But we can't on the one hand give him credit for our players development and the good and then blame everyone else for the bad. You can't say he is a great developer and then complain the players are developing bad on the court habits and Monty bears no responsibility.
#Thunder GM Sam Presti will address the media tonight at 7 pm.
— Scott Pfeil (@scottpfeil) April 22, 2015
And is that because of Brooks or because they had 3 of the top 7 or so players on their roster?
Since then they have struggled and a good coach adapts.
To me Brooks is an average coach with an elite roster. Even without Durant that roster was arguably better then a team like Dallas, a hobbled Portland, or ours banged up. Houston with Harden got the second seed with Howard and Beverly missing significant time. To me Brooks is a coach that needs a dearth of health and talent to succeed.
Let me ask you this. Say Monty retires for some odd reason. Do you want us hiring Brooks over all the other possible coaches out there? If someone says yes can you make a good case for it?
is brooks even a good coach though? The dude had durant, westbrook, harden, and ibaka. 3 of those 4 are like top 7 players in the league lol
Brooks was what the NFL calls a "Game Manager".
I'm guessing they know Durant is not coming back anyway.
Brooks will immediately become a top candidate for the openings in Orlando and Denver, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) April 22, 2015
Apparently Ollie and Westbrook have some sort of relationship.UCLA is my guess
I hope he goes to Denver. The last thing I want is another good coach coming to the West to make it even tougher to make the playoffs, let alone win one. Let Thibs go to Orlando. Keep him in the East.
Remove Spoe and add coach of your choice. Do the Heat still win? I'm pretty sure they do. LBJ took some dudes from the Cleveland boys and girls club to the finals. I'm pretty sure the 4 finals appearances were more LBJ than Spoe. How good was Cleveland and Mike Brown when LBJ left? IJS
I thought we had all learned that judging coaches is incredibly difficult and ambitious. I feel like you have to pretend to know more about a sport than a person who has dedicated their life to it. You have to pretend to know more than the person who sees everything behind the scenes and base it only on public data. Sure, there are opinions that you can agree and disagree with and have philosophical differences on how the game should be played, but our combined knowledge isn't even that of Scott Brooks. I know its a popular opinion that he is a bad coach, and maybe he is, but I'm not going to say so or not because I haven't even watched 75% of the games he's coached or tried to understand a lot of his decision making process.
While I'm at it, let's credit Jordan, Kobe, & Shaq's success to Phil Jackson. Players make the coaches look good not vice versa. Look at all the championships Thibs has won.......wait. Oh yeah, the league's best coach (according to some) hasn't won anything. There are some coaches that work miracles. Larry Brown comes to mind but all the so called elite coaches won with stacked decks. Scott Brooks had a stacked deck and didn't win. I will concede that Presti didn't do him any favors. The object is championships and if you have a stacked deck and the best you can do is win a lot of games, a change might be required.
Realistically, What are the top destinations for durant if OKC decides to blow it up? Outside Washington, we have to be up there right?