i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

Bird exposed as one of those old guys who is completely blinded by anyone who says shit like "the way I look at it is, well you know me Larry, I'm old-school."

ugh so apparently hes generally a shitty offensive coach? clay what else is there to worry about?

i was hoping bird would hire hornacek ://

maybe he's changed some since coaching the sonics and blazers in the early-mid aughts. he's very highly respected around the league. but he's a disciplinarian, players reportedly aren't super fond of his m/l militaristic approach to schedule and practice, he'll alter a rotation once every couple of years, prefers point-guard dominated predictable offensive sets, runs shot clock like a madman, and is so risk-adverse as to be maddening. basically every thing you hated about basketball during that period is embodied in nate mcmillan.

i wrote an extremely long post about how much i despised his approach to the game c. like 2006 or 2007 on here, and that was before pace-and-space and flowing offensive systems even existed as a platonic ideal alternative.

ok, wonderful, so he has all of vogel's flaws but magnified? wow.

promoting a coach like this from within is a really bad look! and it sounds like it will lead to bad basketball too. gross.

sad!

I can't find my McMillan essay from a decade ago but there is this, original poster was hibachi, responding to me remembering that post

i think hibachi or cad once asked me what i thought about mcmillan in the first year portland was doing pretty good with roy & aldridge and i'd had a couple beers and wrote like a 6,000 word post about how severely i disagree w/ like every basketball decision mcmillan had ever made

― Clay, Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I 100% remember this it was an eloquent essay that booted me directly and permanently off the McMillan bandwagon and he was vaporized as a head coach not long after, maybe the most otm thing ever on ilh

also if you isolate ilh in a searching for McMillan it's seriously 90% me bitching about his approach to basketball every couple months for five years

lol

really discouraging hire for the larry bird knows what he's doing crowd.

just cause hes not right abt everything doesnt mean he not good at his job

the bird is cooked

maybe hes panning on trading george and this is his whip the rookies into shape coach

scept mac is an "I only play my vets" guy

perfect

lol the years have focused my rage like glass love it

so the pacers hired byron scott?

These teams are killing me Mike Malone and Jeff Hornacek and probably a half dozen other guys I'm forgetting (that heat assistant Dave somebody) are just sitting RIGHT THERE and they keep hiring retreads from before the pace&space/shoot threes dummies/curry era

I do fear that the legend is losing it but that dude can still draft p well

lol i just remembered that during the roy/aldridge era the blazers trotted out lineups with aldridge (young and fast for his size), peak rudy fernandez, run and gunning sergio rodriguez, etc, guys just built to get up and down the floor. iirc they closed out with the slowest adjusted pace in the league, year after year.

Yah that team coulda shoulda been a blast

he benched dre miller for... steve blake

seriously my rage against nate mcmillan is just an bottomless well

Iirc I think I joined ilh around then

really excited to have clay's nate mcmillan vendetta back tbh

Ha clay a quick look and sort of the franchise page on basket ref reveals that the coach of four of the five slowest teams by relative pace rating (so compared to the league that year) were coached by...ya boy Nate

*Slowest teams in the history of the franchise!!

he is so so bad!!!!!!!!!!!

otoh, terry stotts 3 year extension polite_applause.gif

Draft lotto tonight

celtics will win the nba draft lotto

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cipp65gWsAAl470.jpg

🙏🙏🙏

30% to get a likely star, i'll take it

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huh

https://twitter.com/KarlTowns/status/732614258568003584

:(

my official lottery predix:

1. boston (via nets)
2. philly
3. denver (via knicks)
4. philly (via lakers)

Pretty nervous about this tbh

ya its crazy for the lakers all or nothin

what time is this thing gonna actually happen

oh boy, i always forget that the lottery designates the exact moment every year when jay bilas reenters my life

Mutombo spoiled the lottery? The fix is in lmao

haha he jinxed em, bet

yay it's lottery dais time!

love when teams send the coach or GM bc it's like "hi i am here bc i suck at my job"

i don't think willie cauley stein actually knows where he is

mitch looks haunted af

It2 sitting next to Mitch kupchak, feeling good about this

Kupchak zoom.gif

lol mitch

these questions are so dumb come on

no goofy representatives this year except abe leonsis' son (who seems pretty goofy tbf)

lakers kept their pick fix is in

We still in this yes!