>For example, how long did Scott Brooks "deserve" to keep
>coaching OKC? The team went from expectedly awful in his first
>year (22 wins!) to 50 wins (playoffs), to 55 wins (WCF), and
>then to the Finals (beating a supposedly invincible Spurs team
>along the way).

Brooks absolutely DESERVED to coach his superstar players
past their early years and was GIVEN A CHANCE TO WORK AND
DEVELOP HIS TALENT.

AFTER HE HAD MAXED OUT, he was fired.

AFTER HE had put his fingerprint on the team.

But DO NOT HIRE A GUY AT ALL if you're not going to
give him the chances to coach a team.

SCOTT BROOKS had that opportunity.

BYRON was never given that chance.

The LAST TIME Byron DID have a chance to coach
a decent team, he coached them to the NBA Finals BACK
TO BACK.

It's racism.



And Westbrook, Durant, and Harden sure
>developed under him, if we're using that metric! Yet IMO
>Brooks should've been fired immediately after those 2012
>Finals for failing to bench Kendrick Perkins, because to me
>Brooks more or less threw that series by refusing to make a
>blindingly obvious adjustment. He clearly wasn't the coach to
>take them to the next level.
>
>You should absolutely slam the Sixers and all these
>organizations who give white coaches more time even after
>they've demonstrated they don't have what it takes. And you
>can criticize LA for firing Byron, if you don't believe Luke
>will do better going forward than Byron would have. But this
>"earned it" shit is just the wrong paradigm.




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