since Thibs’ voice had gone stale

Literally.

Kind of funny to see the “Thibs got better playoff performances” posts when it’s game 13. Count me on the side of “hurrah, we’re trying obvious things!” Mixing in some zone, lots more movement and passing on O, Brunson off ball a lot, having someone else bring it up (and faster than in 8 seconds) – I mean, Brown is doing the obvious stuff, and it’s good.

But yeah, I can’t believe he doesn’t have it all figured out in 13 games…

OKC is great, but I give the credit to Sam Presti for that

Always thought that Banchero was overrated, by the way.

He is under enormous pressure and has a lot to fix. This team was outscored for the whole second half of last year and the playoffs. I think letting him handle one problem at a time is fair.

Is he doing a good job with Yabu? No, I don’t think so. But it took him a minute — one minute! — to do what Thibs could never do: get Mikal and OG playing the best basketball of their careers.

Does is suck that sometimes we still do the minutes thing? Yes. But 1/3 of the roster is garbage and he’s the second coach to feel that way. Point the finger at Leon where it belongs.

Are we giving up too many threes? Absolutely. But a team with KAT at C immediately became one of the best rim protecting teams in the league after being shit at it under Thibs with the same players.

I would guess his two biggest goals were to get Mikal & OG involved on offense and fix the rim protection problem on defense. He crushed both of them right out of the gate. That’s not enough for his first month?

Less predictable on offense and better spacing

playing your “best” 8 in a game doesn’t guarantee a win, it does guarantee that 1 or 2 additional players received no development opportunity, so why do it?

it’s like coaching scared…

Thibs played a 5 man unit that didn’t work for long stretches of the season . One of the worst 5 man units in the NBA and declined to change it.