Rate Finch

[Wolvesfan21]

Anyone care to update their vote on this hot garbage take thread? I guess managing the composure of the highest “Vibe Quotient” team in the league is meaningless and never comes into play.

82% of the board voted him at a B grade or higher.... Stop

Everyone votes B or higher and still says we should move on from him. Seems like your all trying to have your cake and eat it to.

Because the real goal is NBA Champion, not WCF appearance or relativity. Good is the enemy of great and most here say Finch is good, not great. Maybe a great coach gets us over that next hump? I'm fine with taking a risk that a coaching change makes us marginally worse, if the chance to get better is also in the cards.

[rapsuperstar31]

Unless you get Spo or kerr (or a fantastic college coach, I don't pay attention to college), I'm not getting rid of Finch anytime soon. Finch clearly doesn't control some things, if you listened to his press conference he said his players kept telling him that come the playoffs the defensive switch will be turned on. Mazzulla for instance is someone a lot of people consider one of the best coaches, but if you look at his offense it's all iso ball. Boston plays a far slower and more iso dominant game than we do. Ime was considered a great coach, now Houston fans hate him and want him gone.

[BeenLurkin]

At the level it’s the head coaches job to manage the players temperament and mesh with eachother more than anything. Phil Jackson didn’t invent the triangle offense. He got players to buy into it and play for eachother. Seems like Finch is the perfect guy for this team. I personally think any shift in management attitude towards this group will splinter and destroy the core. I see it as ride this version or blow it up. Ant is t gonna listen to some new guy coming into yell at him.

[BeenLurkin]

At the level it’s the head coaches job to manage the players temperament and mesh with eachother more than anything. Phil Jackson didn’t invent the triangle offense. He got players to buy into it and play for eachother. Seems like Finch is the perfect guy for this team. I personally think any shift in management attitude towards this group will splinter and destroy the core. I see it as ride this version or blow it up. Ant is t gonna listen to some new guy coming into yell at him. The are a package and firing finch might as well trade Ant cause he will for sure force his way out if you fire his guy.

[BloopOracle]

As someone who would've fired Finch in a second if we lost that series injured or not, I have to admit he is a playoff riser like our players.

[BeenLurkin]

Every step along the way creates the person. People who say Finch can’t develop youth must not take into account Jaden, Ant, Naz…now TJ. It took tough medicine and years of trusting the process and now you want to to enjoy the results….yall better give Finch the flowers. We get swept if the players dont play for Finch. Can’t talk about culture if you discount the leadership. He has proven himself at every level. There’s no magic beans that are going to get you to the top of the beanstalk. Hard work, consistent effort and coming up just short isn’t failure unless you give up…like the Nuggets did when they Fired Malone and the players quit on each other.

[Monster]

Every step along the way creates the person. People who say Finch can’t develop youth must not take into account Jaden, Ant, Naz…now TJ. It took tough medicine and years of trusting the process and now you want to to enjoy the results….yall better give Finch the flowers. We get swept if the players dont play for Finch. Can’t talk about culture if you discount the leadership. He has proven himself at every level. There’s no magic beans that are going to get you to the top of the beanstalk. Hard work, consistent effort and coming up just short isn’t failure unless you give up…like the Nuggets did when they Fired Malone and the players quit on each other.

It was interesting I think it was on Twitter after the Nuggets lost this series to the Wolves someone posted a rant Malone went on when he was still coaching the Nuggets calling them out and he said something like the guys that are full of shit aren't gonna get it.

[guest81]

As someone who would've fired Finch in a second if we lost that series injured or not, I have to admit he is a playoff riser like our players.

Hasn't been outcoached in a series yet

[FNG]

I'm sure you guys have heard the story, but I haven't seen it mentioned here. Finchy has said a few times that he thought his players were a little bored during the regular season, and he was looking forward to them playing up to their potential. After the first game against Denver, apparently he said in the locker room "you guys lied to me"...and not so nicely. Apparently they got the message, because we saw an entirely different Wolves team in Game 2. I think of Finchy as a nice-guy player's coach, but podcasters who are close to the team say he is a much tougher guy in private.

[Leado01]

Is there an A coach?
Finch has the best bench coaching behind him in the NBA. He's built a culture. He's worked with Connely to build flexibility and resilience into the roster.

Fast/slow/spread/packed, we can play any of those styles.

He has 100% frustrated me when it comes to really developing young talent not named ANT/Jaden/NAZ. But you can't argue with winning in an environment that has NEVER won consistently.

A-