Exactly. Spo is not the type to make conclusions with a small sample size lol

It’s absolutely fair, but Paul George has been in Boston for a similar amount of time and has fit in seemlessly and seems to understand the defence better than guys we’ve had for years.

Regardless of the end result, Giannis being tougher to incorporate is an important lesson for a lot of fans. People were acting like he’d fit in easily because he’s got a DPOY and high 2K rating.

The same people said Giannis/Dame would be a perfect fit. The same people demanded Giannis be the primary POA on Jimmy Butler in the playoffs. The same people said teams should go all in on Giannis without worrying about the depth.

Giannis has been great in specific roles and the key to success comes from trying to build around those strengths. Miami is currently trying to figure out how they’re going to do that.

Spoelstra continued, tangentially addressing the comments Rivers made about Antetokounmpo’s offensive game: “In terms of getting everybody comfortable offensively, that’ll take some time, but that’s ahead of our defense right now, despite what guys may feel individually.

“We went into the season thinking that that would be a process, playing with somebody that commands so much attention. That’s a different style than some of the guys that have come here, that have played before. We’ll be able to figure that all out. We’ve already made a lot of strides.”

Because the offense is fine, he says it in the same interview. Its the defensive rotations that are killing them. Particularly the perimeter defense. Its getting better, slowly but surely. People are doom and gloom because they lost a back to back to a hot GSW team on a second night of a back to back and they were competitive for 3 quarters. I can’t help but to think they’ll figure it out. I still see them as a top 4 seed. The only two teams in the east that I see up there penciled in are Sixers and Boston, The rest is up for grabs, imo

A good coach would say “Doc is wrong, Giannis is easy to coach”

Yes, you need to ask him and do the complete opposite

Did you read the first line?

whoosh

I dint think so. Doc’s issue is being too open and honest when he should be keeping things private.

No I mean he has been in the game for quite a while, he even coached some guys like JJ.

I got money on Spo lying about how he likes Doc

Ironically, he’s kind of like trump. When its good, he’ll take the credit, but when its bad, he’ll scapegoat everyone, people that are bonafide hof and players that have won without him .

Tbf I thought that every single time he flamed out. He’s legitimately a bad coach.

A coach that coached him is the wrong person to make those claims but a random redditor should do it

Players play the game still, all all time great coaches have literally blamed players even superstars, starting from Red, to Phil, to Pop to everyone

They also have accepted blame, you need to do both things, players sometimes need to get a kick in their ass

Pop has literally berated players in front of everyone

One thing is clearly false here, you can google it and Doc has literally accepted blame many times in multiple teams

“We didn’t meet them,” Rivers said of the expectations. “That’s the bottom line. I’m the coach, and I’ll take any blame for it. But we didn’t meet our expectations, clearly, because if we had, in my opinion, we’d still be playing.”