05-06-2024, 10:07 AM
(05-06-2024, 09:56 AM)DallasMaverick Wrote: It seems foolish to knee-jerk about a coaches’ worthiness or unworthiness based on a single game, a single series. It sure feels like that’s what happened with Darvin Ham and Adrian Griffin this season.
Now, we fans base our perceptions on massively incomplete data, as well. A coaches’ demeanor on the sideline. Rumors about how he treated a specific player. A not-very-well-thought-out comment at a press conference. And, if our team is losing, we’re critical of anything we’ve ever heard about them.
But most of the time, we really lack the necessary information to fully evaluate a coach’s performance. Did he really get the most out of his team’s potential? Did he put his players in the best position to win? Really hard to know.
The fact that the team gave him an extension says that he’s doing at least an adequate job. Historically, Cuban has favored continuity.
It’s easy to get disillusioned with someone, and look for the next shiny thing that we hope can improve us. But the cost of making a change can be really high, also.
Isn’t Doc Rivers a much more experienced, much better coach than Adrian Griffin?
Doc Rivers is a much better coach than Adrian Griffin. Griffin had no idea what to do with that team.
The Bucks lost in the first round because their 2 superstars were hurt.
Doc Rivers may not be supercreative like Spoelstra or Daigneault but he is much better than Adrian Griffin (or Jason Kidd).
Some of your post is valid but we can all see that Jason Kidd is the least interactive head coach during games in the NBA. It's not a great occupation for an insecure introvert. As Omahen discusses, he has a history of taking no responsibility personally with the media.
Some of the players seem to like him so that is worth something. He's figured out some things defensively and I'm impressed with that.
We could do a lot better than Jason Kidd though.