DB23 wrote:HiRez wrote:There's a lot of blame to go around, but how anyone can pick anyone but Kerr when you can only choose one is beyond me. He's been a disaster in SO many ways. I respect the guy as a decent person and I respect his career but he's been so lost the last couple of years, I don't know how you recover from that without starting over from scratch. Like 90% of the choices he made were the wrong call and that's not even counting the many things he never saw, or saw too late. His blind loyalty to the vets, while perhaps endearing, is the final nail in the coffin.
Replace Kerr with any coach in history and what is our win total? Maybe +4-5 wins best case scenario.
The talent stinks and the roster construction is bad.
The wins.. sure, maybe. If the same predictive analytics that people fawned over just a couple years ago are the same - they were - then the team left a ton of net value on the table this year. Its sloppy math to apply it per game, so who knows how many more wins it actually would have netted, but fact is the team wasn't likely to make a ton of noise this year unless they had an adaptive coach and that's never been Kerr's style. Also said adaptive coach would have had to make a lot of right calls, and at some point the law of averages kicks in - no one's right all the time
All that said, it is absolutely unforgiveable that Kerr could do the job he did this year, W/L wise, and still not have an idea of what his best 5 man unit was. He was content to roll Curry out in high pressure situations with no actual playcall and ask him to make magic happen. He was content to roll Klay out there game after painstaking game on the off-chance he had a retro Klay night. He was content to put CP3-Curry together for clutch stretches as the defense/rebounding suffered, and the offense didnt make up for it. If looked at in isolation, ignoring his history of success, he did an objectively terrible job and likely would be looking for a new job this offseason