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D'Antoni and Kerr History Lesson

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by lnchan, May 14, 2019.

  1. lnchan

    lnchan Sugar Land Leonard

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    History lesson.

    Steve Kerr fired Mike D'Antoni from Phoenix for losing to the Spurs four times in six years. Spurs won 3 championships in those six years (although they did not face the Suns each time). When D'Antoni was finally ousted, Phoenix beat the Spurs but lost to the Lakers -- and had a sub-.500 record the following year.

    Kerr gave D'Antoni the following playoff roster after trading Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks mid-season for a 35-year-old Shaq. In order of playoff minutes with game 1 starters in bold:
    SG Raja Bell
    PF/C Amare Stoudemire
    PG Steve Nash (at 33 y/o)
    SG Boris Diaw
    C Shaquille O'Neal (at 35 y/o)
    SG/PG Leandro Barbosa
    SG Gordan Giricek
    SF Grant Hill (at 35 y/o)
    PF/C Brian Skinner​

    In short, Steve Kerr screwed over D'Antoni with this roster (ironically, Pop played his bench less).
     
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    If there is one thing that armchair experts are worse at then analyzing the basketball they are watching it’s correctly identifying what or what not a coach is doing(strategy and adjustments) and why or why not they are doing it.
     
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    Something I saw mentioned somewhere on here. Coaches are usually expendable if they do not win in their first three or four years. I thought about this and decided to take a peak at the previous years from 2005-2018.

    Warriors, Cavs, Heat, Mavericks, Lakers, Spurs and Celtics are the only teams to win since 2005.

    Warriors : Kerr won in year #1.
    Cavs:Lue won in year #1
    Heat: Spoelstra won in year #4 was on the hotseat constantly following LeBron's arrival though.
    Mavericks: Carlisle won in year #3
    Celtics: Rivers won in year #4
    Spurs: Popovich won in year #3
    Lakers: Phil won in year #2 with chicago and #1 with LA

    So. MDA is entering year #4. If the Rockets come up short in 2019/20, recent history says he does not get it done.

    I think the move is to bring in a new Associate Head Coach whether it's Messina or some other fresh voice. Groom this person to be the next head coach but allow MDA another season to get it done.
     
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    lnchan Sugar Land Leonard

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    You forgot Tomjanovich in his second full year.
     
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    I only went back to 2005.
     
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    This holds true for the NFL as well.
    Not sure about MLB.

    It's an interesting stat that probably points to the impact of organizational culture and tuning out a message if it hasn't proven successful after a number of years.

    Despite evidence of contrary examples - Hakeem notably, but also Dirk - its one of the same issues I have with Harden. After a while the inertia just slows down mentally.
     
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