Showtime:Part2 wrote: I dno man it’s not like the warriors went from being losers w mark Jackson to a dynasty w Kerr? The lakers del Harris to Phil Jackson? The raptors from Dwayne Casey to nick nurse? Coaching just doesn’t make a difference yaknow?
I'm sorry....the point is moot now, as Ham is toast anyways, but those are horrible examples.
In 2011-12 The Warriors were 23-43. Curry's 3rd year. Klay Rookie. Draymond comes next year.
2012-13 they go 47-35. You got Curry in his 4th year. Good player at this point. Klay still wet behind the ears. Draymond a rookie
2013-14 they go 51-31. Getting better. Player are developing....Curry getting close to entering his prime. Team rising.
That's the team Kerr inherited.
1996-97 Lakers 56-26 Kobe, Fisher, are Rookies. Shaq's first year here.
1997-98 Lakers 61-21 Better record. Swept in the Conf finals.
1998-99 Lakers 31-19 Hard to say. Half-season due to Labor dispute. Del fired after 6-6 record. Kurt Rambis coached rest of year.
1999-2000. Phil takes over. Kobe now in 4th season. Shaq in 7th season. Entering his prime.
Nurse was first time coach. Got Kawhi (and couple other guns for hire, lets not forget)....won it all, and was fired himself like 2 years later. Nurse was just a lucky boy who hit the Kawhi lottery, won a title, and hasn't done anything since (still lot of time. Not saying he's bad or anything...but his "story" proves my point). And then the other two examples are the complete opposite of us. Those two teams were ascending....with ascending LEGEND players. We're descending players. You don't see that, eh?
But hey....you and 90% of this board got your wish. Like I said before, I don't think he's a great coach...so whatever. No loss in my book. But if the Lakers think they can grab Nurse, make a couple little tweaks...and it's back to competing for a title, they're fools. This team will be that much worse next year...thanks to Lebron being on the wrong side of the hill. And you do know AD played the most games he's EVER played in a season, right? The most. And Lebron played the most since he came here. And even with that "lighting in a bottle", we still got that little bit worse.
So think what you wanna think. But when your sitting there at the end of next year...confused as to why this team didn't get alot better after ditching that "disaster of a coach", I tried to warn you.