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Thread: enough is enough. Time for Smart to go

  1. #21
    Quote Originally Posted by Bricklayer View Post
    Current NBA coaches + career record, ranked by win%:

    Tom Thibodeau CHI 159gms 117-42 .736 <--------- could have hired, went Westphal instead
    Gregg Popovich SAN 1259gms 857-402 .681
    Erik Spoelstra MIA 324gms 203-121 .627
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    Rick Adelman MIN 1638gms 976-662 .596 <--------------should have never fired, went Muss instead
    Rick Carlisle DAL 817gms 486-331 .595
    George Karl DEN 1818 1081-737 .595
    Scott Brooks OKC 312gms 183-129 .587 <---------------could have hired, went Theus instead
    Avery Johnson BKN 423gms 247-176 .584
    Frank Vogel IND 118gms 68-50 .576
    Larry Drew ATL 159gms 91-68 .572
    Doc Rivers BOS 992gms 553-439 .557
    Mike Dunlap CHA 11gms 6-5 .545
    Doug Collins PHI 779gms 415-364 .533
    Mike D'Antoni LAL 730gms 389-341 .533
    Scott Skiles MIL 854gms 433-421 .507
    Vinny Del Negro LAC 324gms 162-162 .500
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    Lionel Hollins MEM 344gms 167-177 .485
    Alvin Gentry PHX 677gms 328-349 .484
    Tyronne Corbin UTH 107gms 51-56 .477
    Lawrence Frank DET 545gms 253-292 .464
    Kevin McHale HOU 173gms 79-94 .457
    Byron Scott CLE 867gms 395-472 .456
    Mike Woodson NYK 527gms 232-295 .440
    Monty Williams NOH 159gms 70-89 .440
    Jaque Vaughn ORL 12gms 5-7 .417
    Terry Stotts POR 295gms 121-174 .410
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    Dwayne Casey TOR 209gms 79-122 .393
    Mark Jackson GSW 79gms 30-49 .380
    Keith Smart SAC 193gms 68-125 .352
    Randy Wittman WSH 366gms 118-248 .322
    Man, I wanted Thibs so bad the year they hired Westphal. I thought for sure he was gonna be the guy. Can you imagine how good this team would have been with him as our coach? Cheese and rice!!

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    Smart has to go, and I'm really tired of him and his rotations. We are going to waste another year with him. But, I don't want another interim coach, or a Mr. Nobody. Just hire a real coach, there are a lot out there. I know the maloofs are cheap, but they keep wasting money on coaches they are going to fire (and keep paying...). Sloan, MC Millan or Van Gundy please! PLEASE!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ppine View Post
    This team is hard to figure. Utah and the Kings are evenly matched. Three decent quarters and an atrocius fourth quarter. Smart left the second team in too long we can all agree. The transition defense continues to be the team's greatest weakness. It is easy to fix. The Kings came out after half time and still couldn't stop the lay-up drills. The Kings lead the league in foul shots given to other teams. They play defense too much with their hands and not enought with their feet. Tyreke had a great game except he was benched when the team needed leadership. Cousins was MIA except for part of the third quarter. The team played not to lose, instead of to win. They got away from everything they did right the first three quarters. If I were coaching the Kings during a time out in the fourth quarter, I would be setting up plays for Cousins, Evans, and Thornton (or Brooks) down the stretch. This game showed the weakness of Smart in glaring detail in the fourth quarter. He made no adjustments. He assigned no one specific tasks on offense.

    The team is lazy. Smart lets them get away with it. (not getting back on defense and playing with the hands instead of the feet is based on desire). Poor defensive rebounding last night falls in the same category. It is hard work but anyone can learn to do it with a high level of effort. That is how I was able to make teams.
    Most make sense comment in this thread. And Cuz was really the main problem. No aggressive defense, no rebounding, no real hustling and got pushed out of the way many times or just out of position. If he gets 10 reb, Kings win by 6-8. Coaching a player is wasted if the player does not execute or provide the effort.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bricklayer View Post
    Current NBA coaches + career record, ranked by win%:

    Tom Thibodeau CHI 159gms 117-42 .736 <--------- could have hired, went Westphal instead
    Gregg Popovich SAN 1259gms 857-402 .681
    Erik Spoelstra MIA 324gms 203-121 .627
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Rick Adelman MIN 1638gms 976-662 .596 <--------------should have never fired, went Muss instead
    Rick Carlisle DAL 817gms 486-331 .595
    George Karl DEN 1818 1081-737 .595
    Scott Brooks OKC 312gms 183-129 .587 <---------------could have hired, went Theus instead
    Avery Johnson BKN 423gms 247-176 .584
    Frank Vogel IND 118gms 68-50 .576
    Larry Drew ATL 159gms 91-68 .572
    Doc Rivers BOS 992gms 553-439 .557
    Mike Dunlap CHA 11gms 6-5 .545
    Doug Collins PHI 779gms 415-364 .533
    Mike D'Antoni LAL 730gms 389-341 .533
    Scott Skiles MIL 854gms 433-421 .507
    Vinny Del Negro LAC 324gms 162-162 .500
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Lionel Hollins MEM 344gms 167-177 .485
    Alvin Gentry PHX 677gms 328-349 .484
    Tyronne Corbin UTH 107gms 51-56 .477
    Lawrence Frank DET 545gms 253-292 .464
    Kevin McHale HOU 173gms 79-94 .457
    Byron Scott CLE 867gms 395-472 .456
    Mike Woodson NYK 527gms 232-295 .440
    Monty Williams NOH 159gms 70-89 .440
    Jaque Vaughn ORL 12gms 5-7 .417
    Terry Stotts POR 295gms 121-174 .410
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    Dwayne Casey TOR 209gms 79-122 .393
    Mark Jackson GSW 79gms 30-49 .380
    Keith Smart SAC 193gms 68-125 .352
    Randy Wittman WSH 366gms 118-248 .322
    Something tells me that this time next year, Randy Wittman will be our next Head Coach.

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    Smart will get another extension AND a pay rise because he is doing exactly what Magoofs want him to do! He is killing the team so the results are not there, the chemistry is **** and attendances will continue to plummet. He is also jerking around Tyreke to the point where the kid WILL WANT OUT at the end of the season and Magoofs and their lapdogs in the front office will come out with some dribble about wanting players who only want to be here.

    No one in their right minds would want to have this mofo as their coach. He is a bull**** artist who can talk the talk but cannot walk the walk. He was never able to walk the walk and never will. Ownership that is committed to winning would not fire this clown as a coach in the first place and sure as hell would have sacked him by now! The problem is, we don't have that ownership.

    I am still hoping that those @#$%* sell the team now, a new owner cleans up the front office and as a #1 item on the agenda brings in a real coach.
    Jim Capers once called a foul on me while I was sitting on the bench. Tweet! "Foul, number fifty-three! Five-three!" Everybody was confused and looking around for number 53, so I stood up and said, "I'm over here and the only thing I'm fouling is the water bottle." - Darryl Dawkins

  6. #26
    its funny people always say "when Tyreke is able to start hitting the jumpshot, who is going to stop him?" and i think we found out, its Keith Smart

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