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So how bad of a coach is Billy Donovan?
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NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
How about him always being this good and you refusing to admit that you made too much out of one game?
How about that?
Nope. If you just watch the playoffs that's fine, but I watched plenty of their regular season games and he was prone to making dumb rotation mistakes and they had poor defensive gameplans(which wasn't helped by the way Westbrook played defense either).
Only an idiot would think he hasn't improved when even his players, particularly Durant were raving about how much he's improved over the course of the season.
Bad like Michael
The 2nd half of the regular season, Donovan was experimenting, and developing different lineups, and we lost some games doing that.
It was a good decision, especially since we were never going to catch SA or GSW in wins anyway
Now, everybody like how are they doing this to these teams
The 2nd half of the regular season, Donovan was experimenting, and developing different lineups, and we lost some games doing that.
It was a good decision, especially since we were never going to catch SA or GSW in wins anyway
Now, everybody like how are they doing this to these teams
NoGutsNoGLory
Superstar
He has been doing this for a very long time, if they stay focused he might take them all the way.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Getting to know your players better over the year is par for the course. But that good coach was always there...you just judged too soon and refuse to admit fault in doing that
I never said it hasn't always been there, I said "he's shown to be a hell of lot better" in the playoffs than what he'd been throughout the regular season.
The fact he's able to use a shorter rotation when he's got some trash on his bench that he otherwise has to use is also helpful because you obviously can't do that throughout the season. I'm not going to pretend he didn't have mistakes throughout the regular season and some of his coaching moves didn't cost them games.
I don't get what's wrong with saying he's gotten better rather than pretending he's always being amazing. My post clearly shows I was wrong to judge him as quickly as I did, but I won't admit I judged him "because of one game" when there were quite a few things the thunder were doing poorly early on in the season that can be pinned on him(it took them months to start making sure one of Durant/Westbrook were always on the court when that really should be a given).
