He was a pretty good coach. It would have been interesting to see him with a team that did not have LeBron.

Yep.

“Run play for other guys.” Have any of these people watched LAC in the past month? Nobody else besides Garland and at times Jordan Miller/Mathurin is even remotely capable of generating offense. On top of that, all of them are insanely unreliable with the ball and poor passers.

Guys like Horford/Porzingis got open and nailed shots, because they’re competent shooters who got hot. LAC doesn’t have reliable shooters.

Anyone who has watched LAC would understand why this has been the case. Since Kawhi joined the team, our best players have predominantly been isolation heavy players: Kawhi, PG, and Harden. Ty adapts to the team instead of instilling a system regardless of player, similar to Kerr (which he has gotten ragged on for when it doesn’t suit the players).

What cost them at the end of the game is the same reason why we only had 1 win against a team with a winning record since March 12th–our roster was super flawed. Ever since Yanic went down, this team has had literally no inside threat AND we only had 2 shooters in Kawhi/Garland that teams respected.

“Run plays for someone else.” Who? None of our guys outside of Kawhi and Garland can generate offense consistently, any other guy shooting is a win for the defense, and our other best scorers in Jordan Miller, Mathurin, and John Collins all are isolation heavy guys with minimal passing instinct.

The real critique for Lue in that game was him playing BroLo in the end of the game. It’s semi understandable because our front court depth was terrible, but it became clear that BroLo was being targeted in EVERY action and couldn’t keep up. But offensively, saying: “Just run plays for other guys” is quite literally playing into the defenses hands.

Are we gonna act like offense is the reason they lost this game? Or Kawhi’s minutes?

That can be both seen negatively and positively 

I think Kerr is pretty elite and the playoffs showcase this every year. He gets shit recently cause of the regular season and his 10 man rotations but he has an ancient roster so the regular season is just what it is.

Fair enough, Kerr just has a good reputation and long tenure is what I was getting at 

I’m taking Carlisle, all the other are debatable.

Technically Carlisle was with the pacers before

Young players get worse after they leave the warriors

Isn’t Kerr responsible for the largest number of G-League players getting minutes on teams?

Insane take. Nobody watches dubs games. Gui santos is a 55th pick and is an absolute baller. Podz? Post? Richard? All late round picks or undrafted. Pat Spencer. Bad for young players lmao

I do agree about the SPOAT

Fair enough, but it is still the Clippers. They have invested an insane amount of money. Like, so much money that people literally investigated them…. because they wanted to have/keep Kawhi.

The whole new arena and everything… and it’s not like they have terrible rosters. A lot of the time they sacrificed future progress for “win now”…. this team is not supposed to be a play-in team at best.

It should easily be top 6 in the league every year without needing the play-in, and if they are not, it should be considered a massive failure given the amount of money invested in the team. IF they dont make changes now, they will be the same team that might create few upsets here and there, but they wont achieve anything serious. Especially in the West.

Hell no I’m a Lakers fan, I just recognize that the Clippers have been solid while Frank’s been GM; infinitely better than whatever the hell they were doing previously.

Since he took over for doc the clippers have never finished higher than 4th in the standings. Despite having some of the best depth, an owner willing to spend infinite money and a GM making constant trades and improvements to the roster they have nothing to show for it.

What has he done that’s impressive that lots of other coaches couldn’t have done?

I mean, there are new possible head coaches who could take his role.

He started as an assistant and got promoted. Nothing says we cannot suddenly look for new faces around the league. I mean, people were laughing at JJ, and I think his work is at least above what people generally expected.

Ty has not improved at all, nor have the Clippers… so?

In no particular order: Mazzulla, Udoka, Bickerstaff, Adelman, reddick, Spo, Charles lee, Kerr, Nurse, Ott, Rajakovic jus off the top of my head

In my opinion, and not in order

Joe Mazzulla

Billy Donovan

J.B. Bickerstaff

Steve Kerr

Rick Carlisle

Erik Spoelstra

Mark Daigneault

Nick Nurse

Tom Thibodeau͏ 

Edit to add the tenth, sorry I can’t count.

Mitch Johnson

Problem is most of the league dum thier coaches after a couple seasons and dont let them build anything real. Guys like Kerr and Spo are rare because of this. 

I merely am correcting the timeline here. Choosing NOT to hire Lue and instead having a rotation of coaches I do not believe was the better move.

That 2020 team was unreal, and AD played like the best player in the world for key spurts in the bubble. I think even Darvin Sham might’ve won a chip with those dudes. Nah probably not.

Idk why people just act like coaches do nothing. There’s absolutely no guarantee that Ty wins a chip with them. Only certainty is that Vogel did

Well the money was right but years werent, but Vogel took the offer and won a ring and an extension. If lue took the offer he would’ve got the extension and a 2nd ring instead he replaces doc and only got to the wcf once and never even won the division.