Rate Finch

[guest81]

Finch took over drink Saunders and turned the team around immediately.

Has had a top defense every year he's been here even in the year where kat was your rim protector

Made the Kat Rudy pairing work when nobody thought that it could work.

Took two different teams that made major trades before the season to the western finals.

He's only lost one series in his career where he was the favorite.

If that's not an A not sure what else you want

[TheFuture]

I voted 70-74/79. Whatever.

Finch is fine to be a statue I guess, but you cannot let teams go on 12-2 runs without calling a timeout. He does it repeatedly.

I actually don't think he matters at all. This roster is making noise regardless of the coach.

Then you start talking about his position on prospect development. He doesn't play them when called up.. doesn't just leave them there so they can play.. He doesn't care. Full job protection mode.

[TheFuture]

Finch took over drink Saunders and turned the team around immediately.

Has had a top defense every year he's been here even in the year where kat was your rim protector

Made the Kat Rudy pairing work when nobody thought that it could work.

Took two different teams that made major trades before the season to the western finals.

He's only lost one series in his career where he was the favorite.

If that's not an A not sure what else you want

Finch is not the reason this team is good defensively. It is all Gobert.

[guest81]

Finch took over drink Saunders and turned the team around immediately.

Has had a top defense every year he's been here even in the year where kat was your rim protector

Made the Kat Rudy pairing work when nobody thought that it could work.

Took two different teams that made major trades before the season to the western finals.

He's only lost one series in his career where he was the favorite.

If that's not an A not sure what else you want

Finch is not the reason this team is good defensively. It is all Gobert.

They were good before Gobert

[thedoper]

I went 70-74. I predicted 52 wins thinking this would be a down season after 2 WCFs. Im not sure we even get to 52 at this point. Hard for me to go anything but average when this team seems to be regressing on both sides of the ball. I could see blaming Connelly for not having a pg on the roster but Ive been dissapointed with the team play this year. I have always believed coaches influence team play, I fear Finch is losing his ability to impact change. I could easily change with another solid playoff run. We may luck out and get LA now.

[WildWolf2813]

Again I'll say what I said earlier this season:

Finch has been coaching for decades with his specialties being offense and developing young guys. He's finally on a team as a HC, winning, going deep in the playoffs and has a young superstar. I just think he's tired of still having to develop young guys even though to maintain success on and off the court, he needs to do that. He's clearly not interested in really short guards. Only problem is Tim Connelly loves them. They're not on the same page philosophically.


Finch is the best coach we've ever had. There's a ceiling to this team and I commend Finch for being able to reach it, but ultimately this is as good as it gets. Is it all his fault? No. Tim has to share in that, but Finch is very Thibs-like in terms of how he can't look past that night's game and can't make adjustments that help his team even in games that look like scheduled losses. I just look at teams that are better than us (like Boston) who still can learn something out of the young guys they have which makes them dangerous even without a top 10 player in the league in Tatum. If Finch was the Celtics coach, they would have sunk by now because he woulda looked at the Walsh's, Hugo's, Schneiderman's even Queta and been so hesitant to give them run that would benefit them and him. He just half-assed it with the guys he did have.

Dillingham he never liked. Clark is Josh Okogie (and I think Finch thought he was more than that). Shannon has just had a lost season and Beringer was always a project even though he had so many chances to just let him get some valuable on the court time, so yes, this is also on Tim.

Body of work has to be 85-89. I can't argue the results, but it'll be fleeting if he doesn't make necessary changes (especially with treating Randle like he's Tim Duncan because he has a personal relationship with him).

[TheFuture]

Finch took over drink Saunders and turned the team around immediately.

Has had a top defense every year he's been here even in the year where kat was your rim protector

Made the Kat Rudy pairing work when nobody thought that it could work.

Took two different teams that made major trades before the season to the western finals.

He's only lost one series in his career where he was the favorite.

If that's not an A not sure what else you want

Finch is not the reason this team is good defensively. It is all Gobert.

They were good before Gobert

When was that?

[TheFuture]

Again I'll say what I said earlier this season:

Finch has been coaching for decades with his specialties being offense and developing young guys. He's finally on a team as a HC, winning, going deep in the playoffs and has a young superstar. I just think he's tired of still having to develop young guys even though to maintain success on and off the court, he needs to do that. He's clearly not interested in really short guards. Only problem is Tim Connelly loves them. They're not on the same page philosophically.


Finch is the best coach we've ever had. There's a ceiling to this team and I commend Finch for being able to reach it, but ultimately this is as good as it gets. Is it all his fault? No. Tim has to share in that, but Finch is very Thibs-like in terms of how he can't look past that night's game and can't make adjustments that help his team even in games that look like scheduled losses. I just look at teams that are better than us (like Boston) who still can learn something out of the young guys they have which makes them dangerous even without a top 10 player in the league in Tatum. If Finch was the Celtics coach, they would have sunk by now because he woulda looked at the Walsh's, Hugo's, Schneiderman's even Queta and been so hesitant to give them run that would benefit them and him. He just half-assed it with the guys he did have.

Dillingham he never liked. Clark is Josh Okogie (and I think Finch thought he was more than that). Shannon has just had a lost season and Beringer was always a project even though he had so many chances to just let him get some valuable on the court time, so yes, this is also on Tim.

Body of work has to be 85-89. I can't argue the results, but it'll be fleeting if he doesn't make necessary changes (especially with treating Randle like he's Tim Duncan because he has a personal relationship with him).

Tim is probably the best thing that's happened to this franchise.

I am not sold on Finch being the best coach here. He definitely has the most talent that any coach has ever had here.

Look at the Ayo and SloMo injections. They changed the team. Not Finch.

I would still say Flip was a better coach of men.

[guest81]

Finch is not the reason this team is good defensively. It is all Gobert.

They were good before Gobert

When was that?

21-22 season

[Q-is-here]

They were good before Gobert

When was that?

21-22 season

They were #13 that season, so just barely above average. Since Rudy joined we have been chronologically #10, #1, #6, and #5 this season. That's a pretty big and sustained jump.