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kekgeek1 wrote:

jester1534 wrote:

kekgeek1 wrote:So nice to have a coach who can draw up multiple plays to get our stars buckets

Coaching doesn't matter!

I've always thought coaching is overrated. There is 5 coaches that have massive negative value and 5 coaches with positive value. The rest interchangeable

Saunders was the worst coach in the NBA. Finch might in that top 5 category

It could be the coach in me but I just disagree. A coach can be responsible for everything on and off the floor. Say what you want about this team but they play hard 90% of the time. He's done best job he can to change the culture here.

jester1534 wrote:

kekgeek1 wrote:

jester1534 wrote:

kekgeek1 wrote:So nice to have a coach who can draw up multiple plays to get our stars buckets

Coaching doesn't matter!

I've always thought coaching is overrated. There is 5 coaches that have massive negative value and 5 coaches with positive value. The rest interchangeable

Saunders was the worst coach in the NBA. Finch might in that top 5 category

It could be the coach in me but I just disagree. A coach can be responsible for everything on and off the floor. Say what you want about this team but they play hard 90% of the time. He's done best job he can to change the culture here.

Fair

Also think it's time to decline Nowell team option for next year. Making him a RFA and lock him to long term

kekgeek1 wrote:Also think it's time to decline Nowell team option for next year. Making him a RFA and lock him to long term

Yet another effective rotation for him. The thing that makes him a bit Tyus Jones-like is his lack of turnovers. He's obviously more of a scoring/combo guard version of Tyus, but the poise and decision making is very similar. Being able to churn out points and assists while keeping the TOs down is a very underrated trait. He's really starting to elbow his way into that core group of guys we need to carry into next season.

kekgeek1 wrote:Also think it's time to decline Nowell team option for next year. Making him a RFA and lock him to long term

Agree with this as long as his agent isn't expecting outrageous terms. I wonder if Minnesota could lock him into four-years, $24-million.

Atlanta will be without Clint Capela and Bogdan Bogdanovic tomorrow night. That needs to be another win.

Camden wrote:Atlanta will be without Clint Capela and Bogdan Bogdanovic tomorrow night. That needs to be another win.

Capela is another one of those bigs that often frustrates KAT. Such a good defender. That leaves a huge hole for Atlanta.

This was both a game that shows how young and dumb thry are and how they're turning the corner. An elite team wins by 20. We won by 2 but the old Wolves lose by 12. Major credit to Nowell and Reid who held down the fort to the point where I didn't want KAT back in. He played a crappy soft game in between an amazing first quarter and the go-ahead and 1.

Mitchell Robinson fouling out was the key. Also helped that they missed some potential dagger 3's. Ugly game at times but they got off the mat. Kudos to them.

Dane Moore:

Karl-Anthony Towns introduced Jaylen Nowell as "6th Man of the Year" when he sat down for his postgame press conference.

LOL. I want to know what's running through Malik Beasley's head hearing/reading this. Probably something close to: "Damn, that was supposed to be me."

Q-was-here wrote:

Camden wrote:Atlanta will be without Clint Capela and Bogdan Bogdanovic tomorrow night. That needs to be another win.

Capela is another one of those bigs that often frustrates KAT. Such a good defender. That leaves a huge hole for Atlanta.

Yep, it's typically the group of Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokic, Clint Capela, Rudy Gobert (when he actually matches up with him), and Jonas Valanciunas that get under his skin. I might even add Mitchell Robinson to this list with how he's played against him the last couple of outings. He's longer than his listed measurements.