Giannis says he loves the culture that Joe Mazzulla creates:
“Everything about my decision is based on winning— look at Joe Mazzulla. He had so many opportunities this season to make excuses but never did. He realized what he had in his players.”
@CFCLOLS@elitetakes_ kinda depends on your opinion of poch and the NFL coaches. i think bowles (bucs coach) is one of the worst in the sport, and vrabel (like poch) is pretty good but has become overrated after taking over for a previous coach who was clearly out of their depth.
@aydenfranco_ if i’m being real i don’t think “amassing talent is overrated because you just variance your way to a championship these days” is the right lesson to take from a knicks ring this year, if anything it’s kinda the opposite
Rare Gary W
If you believe in the young depth accumulated, I understand how you arrived at that optimism.
Each piece is just way too flawed for me to get there, though.
@bsals10@TA1297 charlotte just got a top 14 pick with a winning record. you could’ve achieved the ~exact same by simply sitting jaylen and/or derrick for a number of games. instead, you won 56 meaningless games after which maybe 1 player (queta) showed actual signs of being a playoff contributor
@bsals10@TA1297 they didn’t play. hence: they were unplayable. beyond that, baylor and harper were huge net negatives, and walsh was too deficient on offense. regardless, would it not be beneficial to the roster construction to add a top-14 pick instead of “development” that clearly wasn’t real?
@bsals10@TA1297 that’s my point: the “leaps” they took weren’t real or weren’t significant enough for them to see the floor in the playoffs (by definition unplayable). i just don’t value reg. season progress that doesn’t show up in the playoffs, esp. when it comes at the cost of a lottery talent
If only a young, perceptive, recently Oscar-nominated movie star had warned people of the dangers of turning movies into unattainable elite events like other art forms like ballet and opera are now