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By the way, I'm worried about Kerr. How hurt is he? Also- why aren't more people talking about Luke Walton? He's breaking all sorts of records.
 
KingAlbertoJrSpeed said:
By the way, I'm worried about Kerr. How hurt is he? Also- why aren't more people talking about Luke Walton? He's breaking all sorts of records.
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He's doing great but this Warriors team is extremely talented and very deep. It's a team effort, and the coach is part of that team.

Also I think Steve Kerr would be coaching if needed possibly. He's recovering from back surgery, so it's probably one of those "as long as things are going this way" type of situations.
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
He's doing great but this Warriors team is extremely talented and very deep. It's a team effort, and the coach is part of that team.

Also I think Steve Kerr would be coaching if needed possibly. He's recovering from back surgery, so it's probably one of those "as long as things are going this way" type of situations.
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I just wonder if it's more serious than they're letting on. The surgery was 2 months ago.
 
22 - 0. Jeez. I knew GS were good but this is getting ridiculous. Waltons got a job waiting once he moves on. Hmmmm.
 
ripcityboy said:
22 - 0. Jeez. I knew GS were good but this is getting ridiculous. Waltons got a job waiting once he moves on. Hmmmm.
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I'm not sure you were implying wanting him here or not, and I'm also not saying Walton is bad, he could be great, but I'm not so quick to jump to that. Walton was a player, and a coaches son, I'm not sure he's the mastermind behind that coaching operation. I think that goes to Steve Kerr - I just think that Walton probably learned what Kerr is doing very quickly and was able to translate that over towards coaching the team.

Do you think if you put Luke Walton in Terry Stotts' position that our team would see a leap in production, and success?

I'm sure somebody will hire him, but I'm not sure anybody is going to be moving an already good coach in order to get him. My money is that Luke Walton gets a big offer from the Lakers to be their head coach after Kobe retires. I could definitely see him taking that and returning to LA, where I hope he proves me right and keeps the Lakers mediocre for a long time.
 
The Thunder have been very mediocre the past few seasons. I'm just not sure they are even that good. They have the talent, so maybe they are in sleep mode right now. I guess they could be dangerous come playoff time if they learn to play better together, but that kind of thing takes time.
 
If OKC loses, we're only 2.5 games behind them for the division lead.
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
I'm not sure you were implying wanting him here or not, and I'm also not saying Walton is bad, he could be great, but I'm not so quick to jump to that. Walton was a player, and a coaches son, I'm not sure he's the mastermind behind that coaching operation. I think that goes to Steve Kerr - I just think that Walton probably learned what Kerr is doing very quickly and was able to translate that over towards coaching the team.

Do you think if you put Luke Walton in Terry Stotts' position that our team would see a leap in production, and success?

I'm sure somebody will hire him, but I'm not sure anybody is going to be moving an already good coach in order to get him. My money is that Luke Walton gets a big offer from the Lakers to be their head coach after Kobe retires. I could definitely see him taking that and returning to LA, where I hope he proves me right and keeps the Lakers mediocre for a long time.
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No. I was just saying, "Hmmmm." Stotts I think is doing fine. But yes, I could see the Lakers going after Walton.
 
I don't buy the argument that the Warriors have an overwhelming amount of talent. They're good but they only have one superstar who is arguably their only All Star. They do have lots of good players though. And I guess Dray and/or Klay could get an All Star spot this year but it's not a given.
 
Joey posts here. Sly doesn't want you to insult him.
 
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I think it's ridiculously stupid that they're counting the end of last season in the Warriors win streak. The playoffs happened, the off season happened. It's totally different, and I think the players would agree. That being said, I hope they keep winning, this is fun to watch.
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
I'm not sure you were implying wanting him here or not, and I'm also not saying Walton is bad, he could be great, but I'm not so quick to jump to that. Walton was a player, and a coaches son, I'm not sure he's the mastermind behind that coaching operation. I think that goes to Steve Kerr - I just think that Walton probably learned what Kerr is doing very quickly and was able to translate that over towards coaching the team.

Do you think if you put Luke Walton in Terry Stotts' position that our team would see a leap in production, and success?
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Oh, he absolutely is just running Kerr's operation. However, I still think it speaks volumes about his ability that he's been able to keep the team so (historically) successful while Kerr is out. Sure, he has good players in a system that fits the players, but to be loss-less he's had to have done a masterful job at game prep and game management. That's more than could be said for Terry Stotts!

So while I don't know if replacing Stotts with Walton would have an immediate effect on W/L, I do think we'd be a better team. He has a much better coaching pedigree than Stotts, so even though he's not responsible for the X/O of GSW's offense/defense I think he could easily put something together that's better than Stotts' extremely elementary system.
 
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Looks like we have parity between the conferences; the East is very slightly better so far.

 
blue9 said:
Oh, he absolutely is just running Kerr's operation. However, I still think it speaks volumes about his ability that he's been able to keep the team so (historically) successful while Kerr is out. Sure, he has good players in a system that fits the players, but to be loss-less he's had to have done a masterful job at game prep and game management. That's more than could be said for Terry Stotts!

So while I don't know if replacing Stotts with Walton would have an immediate effect on W/L, I do think we'd be a better team. He has a much better coaching pedigree than Stotts, so even though he's not responsible for the X/O of GSW's offense/defense I think he could easily put something together that's better than Stotts' extremely elementary system.
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I disagree with the replacement part, but I do agree that his rotations have been great, and that's always been one of my knocks on Stotts.
 
jlprk said:
Joey post here. Sly doesn't want you to insult him.
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Hey man if I wanted to insult him I would have said he refs like Scott Foster. Joey Crawford is a great ref, he just doesn't take any shit and I bet neither does Dviss.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Not anymore; we banned PapaG remember?
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I was just thinking of him. Remember how bitter he got whenever anyone suggested we get Greg Monroe? He took that as an insult to Aldridge. Right now at halftime Monroe is killing us.
 
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