OT: Oklahoma City fires head coach Scott Brooks

[The Hawk]

Every coach coaches differently in the playoffs. Rotations get smaller, minutes are distributed differently.

So, you are saying that Thibs doesn't know how to do that or does it wrong? I'm just trying to understand what it is that Thibs doesn't get as far as you are concerned.

 

[Scoot26]

So, you are saying that Thibs doesn't know how to do that or does it wrong? I'm just trying to understand what it is that Thibs doesn't get as far as you are concerned.

IMO, Thibs doesn't get that every game isn't Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

IMO, Thibs doesn't get that every game isn't Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

Hence the Try-Hard Bulls have historically over-achieved under Thibs.

 

[Axl Rose]

Okay. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I just value Thibs highly as a head coach.

hes a good coach but not a franchise coach that we must keep or else we'll be doomed for the rest of our years lol

 

[The Hawk]

Hence the Try-Hard Bulls have historically over-achieved under Thibs.

Your logical derivation makes no sense. Your premise is that Thibs fails coaching-wise in the play-offs but succeeds in the regular season. That means he does something differently so what is different?

I say that the reason the Bulls have not won an NBA championship under Thibs is because he hasn't had a healthy group of players in those play-offs except for one year early in Rose's tenure. IF you think differently, then please explain what that failure is because of.

 

[Axl Rose]

Your logical derivation makes no sense. Your premise is that Thibs fails coaching-wise in the play-offs but succeeds in the regular season. That means he does something differently so what is different?

I say that the reason the Bulls have not won an NBA championship under Thibs is because he hasn't had a healthy group of players in those play-offs except for one year early in Rose's tenure. IF you think differently, then please explain what that failure is because of.

reg season and playoffs are 2 different things

teams adjust allot more for one

im not gonna get into thibs failing in the playoffs because he has an excuse but i thought i'd point that out

 

[The Hawk]

what im saying if ppl didn't wrongly think of Thibs as some Phil Jackson/Greg Popvich type would they be against letting him go?...if i had to choose i'd take Thibs over Brooks but there is allot of parallels between them

however i don't see anybody defending Brooks even though you could apply allot of the same argument ppl use for Thibs to Brooks

Its tough trying to follow double negatives. So you are saying that people are wrong to compare Thibs to Jackson and Popovich? I don't see anyone comparing him to those two guys. However, Jackson doesn't coach anymore and Pop is probably at the tail end of a great coaching career. So, among the remaining head coaches in the NBA, I evaluate Thibs as at least one of the best two or maybe three coaches out there. YOu do not win the amount of games that he has without being very good, especially with the injuries that he has had and the lack of a good GM to give him a chance to advance in the play-offs by bringing in better bench players.