Do any of y’all watch these games from start to finish, or do you just look on Reddit and look at box scores. This guy cannot fucking coach. It was a mistake hire. What the fuck are you folks even saying? I understand the take of “he isn’t going to get fired because he just got here and gores isn’t gonna eat that money”, but to actually say “he doesn’t deserve to be fired” is actually retarded. He’s fucking +1000 already to get fired. It’s like 5 highest odds in the league to be fired. Cmon now. Collectively, give your heads a firm shake. He deserves to be fired. He just does. If he were fired who here would whine about it? Have you not listened to post game pressers? He had one good passion-filled post game press conference. He doesn’t care. He took the contract for the payday. He doesn’t make adjustments in-game. He will literally leave 5 bench players on the floor for half a quarter. Some of those guys are 11th and 12th men. He literally started Kevin Knox. I’ve watched every game from start to finish. He chose to be hard on Ivey, but lets everyone else do what they want. Watch the video posted. Watch both parts. This was against the fucking wizards! He just said the team had its best practice of the year after that wizards loss….what have the rest of the practices looked like?! What the fuck is this coach? He stands on the sideline with his moth agape and head tilted to the left as his guys aimlessly play defense. He doesn’t have the wherewithal or temperament to coach kids. Idk honestly I never thought this was such a hot take. I understand that he won’t be fired. Gores will let him coach this season and probably next season as well, but to sit here and say “he doesn’t deserve to be fired” is what Stockholm syndrome looks like

Do any of y’all watch these games from start to finish, or do you just look on Reddit and look at box scores. This guy cannot fucking coach. It was a mistake hire. What the fuck are you folks even saying? I understand the take of “he isn’t going to get fired because he just got here and gores isn’t gonna eat that money”, but to actually say “he doesn’t deserve to be fired” is actually retarded. He’s fucking +1000 already to get fired. It’s like 5 highest odds in the league to be fired. Cmon now. Collectively, give your heads a firm shake. He deserves to be fired. He just does. If he were fired who here would whine about it? Have you not listened to post game pressers? He had one good passion-filled post game press conference. He doesn’t care. He took the contract for the payday. He doesn’t make adjustments in-game. He will literally leave 5 bench players on the floor for half a quarter. Some of those guys are 11th and 12th men. He literally started Kevin Knox. I’ve watched every game from start to finish. He chose to be hard on Ivey, but lets everyone else do what they want. Watch the video posted. Watch both parts. This was against the fucking wizards! He just said the team had its best practice of the year after that wizards loss….what have the rest of the practices looked like?! What the fuck is this coach? He stands on the sideline with his moth agape and head tilted to the left as his guys aimlessly play defense. He doesn’t have the wherewithal or temperament to coach kids. Idk honestly I never thought this was such a hot take. I understand that he won’t be fired. Gores will let him coach this season and probably next season as well, but to sit here and say “he doesn’t deserve to be fired” is what Stockholm syndrome looks like

Do any of y’all watch these games from start to finish, or do you just look on Reddit and look at box scores. This guy cannot fucking coach. It was a mistake hire. What the fuck are you folks even saying? I understand the take of “he isn’t going to get fired because he just got here and gores isn’t gonna eat that money”, but to actually say “he doesn’t deserve to be fired” is actually retarded. He’s fucking +1000 already to get fired. It’s like 5 highest odds in the league to be fired. Cmon now. Collectively, give your heads a firm shake. He deserves to be fired. He just does. If he were fired who here would whine about it? Have you not listened to post game pressers? He had one good passion-filled post game press conference. He doesn’t care. He took the contract for the payday. He doesn’t make adjustments in-game. He will literally leave 5 bench players on the floor for half a quarter. Some of those guys are 11th and 12th men. He literally started Kevin Knox. I’ve watched every game from start to finish. He chose to be hard on Ivey, but lets everyone else do what they want. Watch the video posted. Watch both parts. This was against the fucking wizards! He just said the team had its best practice of the year after that wizards loss….what have the rest of the practices looked like?! What the fuck is this coach? He stands on the sideline with his moth agape and head tilted to the left as his guys aimlessly play defense. He doesn’t have the wherewithal or temperament to coach kids. Idk honestly I never thought this was such a hot take. I understand that he won’t be fired. Gores will let him coach this season and probably next season as well, but to sit here and say “he doesn’t deserve to be fired” is what Stockholm syndrome looks like

Yeah I think a lot of the American kids in basketball today don’t have to deal with a lot of adversity on the court. They get propped up from the age of 8 because they’re taller than everyone in their grade and show a proclivity for basketball. They now have mixtapes for 6 year olds. We’ve seen mock drafts ten years from now lmao. The nba does show us who has it and who doesn’t. I do worry that Cade, a guy who has probably been treated as a golden goose since middle school, might be dealing with real adversity for the first time in his life (starting from his injury). Having listened to him talk from draft night until just a couple days ago with his “this team is bad. We are bad” I feel as though he can come out of this and be a better player because of it. He’s obviously not a Jordan Poole type or a Jalen Green type. I think this season will be good for him in the long run. I’m hoping that’s the case anyways because it doesn’t look like this group will win much more than 20 games.

Luka doesn’t have the athleticism or speed to be a primary ball handler by conventional wisdom. He’s just a better player with a more refined skill set since he was playing with grown ass men at like age 16 lol. Whenever a new archetype comes into the league, teams spend the next decade trying to draft that guy. We thought we were getting luka 2.0 with Cade and it turns out Luka is actually a unicorn. Cade is Cade. He will be in better shape by the end of this calendar year and you’ll see less tired legs in the fourth quarter. He probably needs to get off that goofy vegan diet and start eating some lean meats lol. Cade still has one of the best midrange games in the league and he’s strong. Monty is trying to use him like he’s Chris Paul or something. He isn’t that player either. His strengths as far as I can tell involve him coming off ball to get a handoff followed by a hard screen and roll to the hoop where he can decide to shoot a midrange, drop a pass to duren, kick out for 3, or get to the rim. He’s incredibly indecisive at the hoop. I’d like to see him just go up strong and use his body to shield shot blockers. He gets his shot blocked far too often and it’s because he tries to fínese opposing centers. Just go up strong and force contact. Those who watch the games know that he seems to get a poor whistle. I’m not sure why that is. I think the foul calls will come eventually, but he has to continue to welcome contact and go to strong. I count at least 2 times a game where he gets blatantly fouled and finishes an and one. He should probably be getting 8 free throw attempts a game. I can’t really think of someone to compare him to. Healthy Brandon Roy was a dog defensively. He also had some athleticism and speed prior to the Injuries. If his comp is Brandon post-knee disintegration then we’re fucked lol. I’ll give Cade this season to figure it out. If next season he hasn’t refined his game, then I think it’s safe to say he’s not that guy and I don’t know what to do with him. Treat this season like he’s a rookie. Pull him when he fucks up repeatedly and hold him accountable. Make him engage defensively. Many nba players turned analysts say that being a good defender mostly comes down to effort and engagement. He may not be an all nba defender, but his defense has got to be better and that needs to happen pretty much immediately. That’s just effort. He should be able to defend a teams 2nd option pretty well. Ausar is the best defender and that should give Cade help in that regard. His rookie season they were sticking him out the other teams best player and his defense looked much better in his rookie year.

Cade, Ivey, Ausar, & duren; That’s it. Those 4 players are the 4 that stay and the rest can fuck off and be spun off to other teams that need their services. I start Ausar at the 4 personally. Cade and Ivey can run the back court and duren at the center. If they could grab OG Anunoby and a few guys off the bench who can shoot and have some defensive grit……MAYBE this team could make some waves in the league. Cade IS NOT a primary ball handler, but he is a future superstar in this league. I know it’s hard to believe that, but as soon as Monty is fired and replaced by a coach who understands how to utilize Cade, you will see a lot more efficient boxscores from him. 21% on 3 pointers tonight is pathetic. Beef stew shooting 7 3’s is insane. He’s trashcan. He shouldn’t even be playing. He’s just a tough guy who can probably win most fist fights, but what does that matter? I could fucking vomit watching him guard Kuzma. What the fuck is that? He cannot start next to duren. He’s, if his shot is falling, 20 minutes a night at best. Alec burks is garbage. If he misses his first shot, he’s cooked. I have counted many games since last season where if he misses his first shot he will proceed to have a terrible game. Trash. Livers is a guy I was admittedly excited to get back because I thought he would provide some spacing, but that hasn’t been the case thusly. Maybe it’s rust. He’s spent most of his career injured so idk maybe that’ll come around. He’s a solid defender though with good footwork. Killian is just……he’s fine. Backup point guard. He hustles. But god damn him over Halliburton is painful. Who knows if this team would’ve destroyed him though. I’m inclined to believe that he would’ve been a star no matter what because he was good in sacramento and that team was a joke while he was there. Bagley and wiseman are redundant. Fuck both of them from a basketball perspective. Bagley has zero defense. He can’t shoot. He’s athletic, but who cares. Has decent hands which I think gives him an edge over wiseman. Wiseman is gifted physically, but Jesus his hands are like bricks. Also very poor footwork. Gets the ball and has zero patience. Goes up soft often. Trash. I was loudly saying “wait until bojan gets back” up until the Toronto game. That game made me realize that unless bojan scores 30 a game on amazing efficiency and plays NBA 1st team-type defense, we’re fucked regardless. Joe Harris shouldn’t see the floor for the rest of the year when he gets back. Monte morris probably would help this team tremendously, but he can still be a leader as an injured guy on the bench so I’m not really sure how many wins his game brings the team. I’m not sure he stops any of these blowouts from happening. I think this is a 25 win team. They’ll win some games. Probably after monte gets canned. Hopefully we wake up tomorrow to see the news that he has been let go. He even said postgame “the lack of effort is on me”…….okay!!! Then fucking quit.