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Neg for referencing a team that didnt make it out the first roundHow about you leave Steve Kerr as the coach, but instead they face a healthy Spurs team.
Would they even reach the Finals?
No.
Would the Warriors have won the title this year with Mark Jackson?
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Gil Scott-Heroin
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Yes they would. fukk the Spurs.How about you leave Steve Kerr as the coach, but instead they face a healthy Spurs team.
Would they even reach the Finals?
No.
Amare's Right Hook
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No
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I'm not sure if Mark Jackson would've listened to a guy that wasn't even on his coaching staff and went small in the finals. I'm also not sure he would've benched Iggy to start the season. Also not sure if he would've kept Draymond in the starting lineup. But Mark Jackson did a lot for the franchise. Our ball movement and offense was just so much better under Gentry/Kerr though. Him having to watch the guys he coached win a championship right in his face had to hurt though. For him to see the guy who fired him hoisting the trophy a year after canning him was cold.
Amphibious
Land, water, wherever.
Nah, Jackson is a shytty coach (and person).
Tide Run This
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fukk THAT nikka
No. Even if we were to ignore the offensive efficiency increase, I don't think Mark Jackson makes the bold decisions to start Iggy at Center for the Warriors in the finals which saved their series. He seems old fashioned and stubborn.
What key Spurs players didn't play in the playoffs?How about you leave Steve Kerr as the coach, but instead they face a healthy Spurs team.
Would they even reach the Finals?
No.
Tony Parker wasn't healthy at all and he makes that team go. Their entire offense relies on him forcing the defense to switch before they're ready and the Spurs offense moves almost entirely off of that.
That being said, they lost to the team that had the greatest choke in playoff history just a few weeks later. Spurs weren't doing shyt.
All these what if... move on
What if Jordan didn't retire for 2 years, what if magic and worthy was healthy in 89, what if the cavs was healthy, what if it never snow on the east coast....
Fact of the matter is mark couldn't do it and wasn't willing to take his assistant advice
What if Jordan didn't retire for 2 years, what if magic and worthy was healthy in 89, what if the cavs was healthy, what if it never snow on the east coast....
Fact of the matter is mark couldn't do it and wasn't willing to take his assistant advice
Yeah, but did Parker miss any games? People act like the Spurs were decimated with injuries.. Leonard, Mills, Bellineli, Diaw and Green were all healthy.. Duncan was healthy and played exceptional in the playoffs, Manu was as healthy as he's gonna be in 2015. The only player that was "hurt" was Parker and he still played throughout the series. All this caping for the Spurs when they didn't have one player miss a game is corny to me.
Also, if the Spurs offense still heavily relies on Parker then it's safe to say they would not have beaten the well-oiled machine that is Golden State.
Parker being hurt crippled the Spurs the majority of the year. The Spurs had a healthy Leonard and Parker for all of 5 weeks maybe and they had the league scared as fukk. Then Parker fell off again and they came right back to Earth.
Diaw, Mills, Belli, Green... breh, there's no point in even bringing up those ROLE PLAYERS like that. Parker makes the Spurs offense what it is. He wasn't 100%, the team suffered. Straight up.
Still though. The Clippers are the fukkboy WC playoff team year in and year out. Spurs should've handled business like champs regardless and didn't.
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
I'm pretty sure that indeed Iggy would've been in the starting lineup, Mark Jackson doesn't look like the guy to have a proven veteran on the bench (for good or bad reasons, that's not the point). Maybe Draymond Green feels some type of way about that, chemistry issues, etc. He might have Lee in the starting five too, going with a more traditionnal PF. Not the same dynamic.
On the other hand, didn't the Warriors have like key injuries these past playoffs to both Lee and Bogut? Whatever the stats say, Bogut was crucial for their run this year (I mean in tthe lead-up to the Finals).