11-10-2023, 10:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2023, 10:25 AM by SleepingHero.)
(11-09-2023, 11:28 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Don’t have a problem with your overall point, but for the record, I defended the great Rick Carlisle to the bitter end, and will continue to do so until the day I die.
At the end of the day the problem with Rick is that he is an asshole who grates on his locker room so much that eventually they tune him out (or worse they give up completely).
It's happened at every single stop. There is no arguing against Carlisle's X's and O's. He probably has a good case to be top 10 all time in that regard. But there is more to coaching than just a game plan and I don't think it's a coincidence that Kidd has taken this team further than Carlisle had since 2011.
I also highly HIGHLY doubt Carlisle would be able to manage Kyrie.
Also RC hasn't been a top 5 coach for years now.
1. Spolestra
2. Kerr
3. Mike Malone
4. Ty Lue
5. Pop
Are all pretty clearly ahead of him. Then you got guys like Nick Nurse, Taylor Jenkins, and even Mark Daignault.
14x All-Star, 12x all-NBA, 1x MVP, 1x Finals MVP, 1 NBA Championship: Dirk Nowitzki, the man, the myth, the legend.