Thunder blow a 15 point lead with 7 mins left in the game..that's all coaching...this is who Billy Donovan is...
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Not coaching thats all gamblingComment -
how long has he been there, totally wrong coach for westbrook. russ needs someone he respects only way his game gonna even remotely changeComment -
Idk what coach Billy is supposed to do about Portland 2 best players outperforming their 2 best players in crunch time. Or OKC bigs getting killed on the glass & allowing second chance pts to a team that’s scorching hot.
This one is all on OKC players.Comment -
no way russ would play the exact same if Pop was his coach just would never happen. russ might end up teaming with other stars in a little while away from okc he'll prob have a hard time getting guys to come there once paul leavesComment -
As long as Russ feels like “big bro” that’s how he will act. KD, PG those guys are not alpha personalities that demand the ball. KD maybe now cuz he’s next level after a couple rings but not during his time w/ OKC. I guess a coach could fill that role but I would think it’s different when you are caught up in the emotions of the game like Russ is. Until he gets “lil bro’d” its gonna be same old same old.Comment -
He's the coach the Sam Presti wanted him to be. A roosterlicker, walking on egg shells, bowing to the great triple double man haha ;/Comment -
I’ve been saying this for a few years now. He isn’t the right guy.Comment -
You may be right, but at the end of the day, Donnavan didn't blow that 15 point lead. The players did. Players win and lose games, not coaches. If coaches won games, then there would be plenty of coaches who would have rings. Some legendary coaches who coached 25 years in the league don't have a ring, because they never had the players.Cause Sleep is the Cousin of DeathComment -
CJ McCollum was in foul trouble the entire first half and Lilliard single handedly kept Portland in the game.
Does Billy double him or force anyone else to beat OKC? Nope. He just lets him drain shot after shot.
OKC went small in the 4th and built a lead. Up 15 points does Billy Put Adams back in the game? Nope. Adams never comes back in. OKC has no rim protection. Portland starts getting easy shots at the rim and comes back.
The players don’t listen to Donovan.Comment -
Bro Dame hit tough shot after tough shot. You gotta give him props. No defense in the world was stopping him last night.
Coach Billy can’t afford to play Adams at the end of games because he gets killed in PnR & 1on1 when they switch. He has honestly been terrible defensively all series. Not to mention Kanter killed him on boards every single game.
I’m sure hiring more of a players coach will help but I doubt it resolves deeper issues this team has.Comment -
Adams underutilized the entire series. He should dominate against Kanter, after all wasn't it Donovan who said can't play Kanter in the playoffs??Comment -
The disappointing thing for me was that he had Westbrick defending Lillard (or McCollum) from the tip and in crunch time ...madness.
He's lousy coach, but his job was to make Westbrick like him and to get PG to re-sign, and he achieved both of those goals. Now Presti has to decide if he wants the least coached team in pro basketball to maintain the status quo or to evolve at the risk of alienating their leader. I think I know the answer to that...Comment -
He likely wants to get fired. He wants no part of that job. No way he would have taken the job if he didn't think Durant would stay at least a couple years. He probably wanted to quit when Durant bolted, but after quitting on Orlando a few years earlier he probably figured he needed to stay a few seasons at least.
Guy will be back in college some day, just like his former boss, Pitino.Comment
