And in the spirit of an uncluttered forum, I'll state my Nate opinions here and avoid saying the same damn thing is six other threads.
I think Nate is a good motivator and teaches young players how to limit their mistakes. However, I think he's horrible at making adjustments, both mid-game and mid-series. He showed signs of improvement during the regular season. I suspect it was do to advice from the new assistant coaches he hired during the offseason.
However, in the playoffs he reverted to his old ways. His solution seems to always be to play harder and make your shots (duh!). When you're already playing hard, and just aren't a good shooting team, that's not exactly a winning game "plan". He didn't adjust last year when Phoenix put Grant Hill on Andre Miller and hid Nash's poor defense on Batum. And, he didn't adjust this year to Dallas' pick and roll offense, or their tightly packed zone defense.
It's not that I totally disagree with the Nate bashers. I'd just prefer to discuss it in one place not in six different parallel threads on the exact same topic.
BNM
