<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">OAKLAND, Calif. -- Veteran coach John MacLeod was hired as an assistant on Mike Montgomery's staff with the Golden State Warriors on Monday. MacLeod went 707-657 in 18 seasons as an NBA head coach with Phoenix, Dallas and the New York Knicks, ranking 15th in league history in coaching victories. He is the winningest coach in Suns history, reaching the NBA Finals in 1976 and making trips to the Western Conference finals in 1979 and 1984. He also coached at Notre Dame from 1991-99, going 112-126. Warriors forward Troy Murphy played one season for MacLeod.</div> Source
Hopefully this guy can help Monty to teach the team to play some defense. Oh and hopefully he can show Monty how to make decent rotation moves, especially late in games.
Monty doesn't need to be taught anything, he just needs to adapt and adjust. As far as rotation moves, I disagree with many of them. His philosophy is he doesn't call timeouts soon enough because of this logic that "being forced to call timeout" only causes the opposing crowd to get into even more. And believe it or not the crowd can make a difference in getting the team to play a little bit harder sometimes. That I believe. Monty also believes it builds team character to have 5 guys all put in a tight situation, to force them to use their heads together and get out of the mess on their own. Most coaches do not do this, but I've seen Phil Jackson and some other coaches expect their leadership on the floor and their go-to players to step up to find their way out of the jam. We had no real go-to players other than J-Rich, so that was problem #1. Problem #2 was there's probably a lot of young players that would expect to be bailed out with a timeout because they're either too frustrated or tired to stay focussed or they all have no clue what to do to turn the next series of plays around. The W's aren't very disciplined or experienced as a team to figure out where they are getting exploited on defense or where they are getting hung up on offense. The W's simply haven't been a very good pro team when they are forced to play a slower tempo. As much as I disagree with Monty and as much as I am aware that we're not a halfcourt team, yet, I realize that Monty's no idiot when it comes to the sport of basketball. He doesn't need to be really taught anything, he just needs to adjust to the nba game, earn his respect and know who his players are so he make the right decision soon enough. That he can do. It's tough making a transition into a new league and having to re-earn all that respect and having to refamliarize with a whole bunch of things. I'll give Monty credit for that. But this year he had better live up to expectations because there's a lot of pressure for the Warriors to finally make the playoffs.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting custodianrules2:</div><div class="quote_post">Monty doesn't need to be taught anything, he just needs to adapt and adjust. As far as rotation moves, I disagree with many of them. His philosophy is he doesn't call timeouts soon enough because of this logic that "being forced to call timeout" only causes the opposing crowd to get into even more. And believe it or not the crowd can make a difference in getting the team to play a little bit harder sometimes. That I believe. Monty also believes it builds team character to have 5 guys all put in a tight situation, to force them to use their heads together and get out of the mess on their own. Most coaches do not do this, but I've seen Phil Jackson and some other coaches expect their leadership on the floor and their go-to players to step up to find their way out of the jam. We had no real go-to players other than J-Rich, so that was problem #1. Problem #2 was there's probably a lot of young players that would expect to be bailed out with a timeout because they're either too frustrated or tired to stay focussed or they all have no clue what to do to turn the next series of plays around. The W's aren't very disciplined or experienced as a team to figure out where they are getting exploited on defense or where they are getting hung up on offense. The W's simply haven't been a very good pro team when they are forced to play a slower tempo. As much as I disagree with Monty and as much as I am aware that we're not a halfcourt team, yet, I realize that Monty's no idiot when it comes to the sport of basketball. He doesn't need to be really taught anything, he just needs to adjust to the nba game, earn his respect and know who his players are so he make the right decision soon enough. That he can do. It's tough making a transition into a new league and having to re-earn all that respect and having to refamliarize with a whole bunch of things. I'll give Monty credit for that. But this year he had better live up to expectations because there's a lot of pressure for the Warriors to finally make the playoffs.</div> He better adapt quickly. He needs to realize that this is the NBA and you make timeouts when you are supposed to and you make substitutions when you need to. I'm sick of seeing Fisher playing instead of Pietrus late in the game, especially when the opposing team's swingman is burning us everytime down the floor. Get a clue Monty.
After things are starting to look good for Oakland, I think I am becoming more patient, more reasonable with the coaches and the players. (but if the crap ever hit the fan, I'm going into pure rantin' ravin' tirade mode. Pure fanatic-like) Take Monty for instance. I know there's an adjustment period. So we'll wait and see because this year actually counts. Hiring Mcleod is a great move considering his experience and the fact we lost Coach Stotts, who was said to be a good assistant coach presence. All the coaches will have to be on the same page though in terms of their approach to the game, execution, and chemistry with the players and the GM. Heck I'll carry that same patience with our rookies this year. We'll wait two years and then we'll see rather than bashing Dunleavy or overhyping Pietrus in their year ones and twos. Rose colored glasses for all. With Dunleavy... I dunno... I like him because he's an underdog with a lot to prove after two disappointing seasons, but I've always projected him as a potentially overpaid role player because of the "upside" he still has left. He's shown flashes where he's impressed me a lot, but he disappears quite a bit. Baron makes him play a lot better that's for sure. No further comment on him because I have no clue what he's going to show this year so it's all conjecture on how he'll actually turn out. Hoopshype has his profile down exactly, though. http://www.hoopshype.com/previews/golden_state.htm and everyone knows how I feel about Pietrus. He could be the next Bobby Simmons by landing some fat contract elsewhere. We should look for trade opportunities if we know we aren't matching a fat contract. I think the rule has it so we can only match one of our 2003 class, so we could lose Zarko as well. I love the Z man as well. I guess Mullin will have to weigh how many wins and losses result in us keeping a player or losing him to free agency and how everything can fit under budget without going too much over the cap or hitting the luxury tax line. Ideally, we all want a super kickass starting 5 that looks great on paper and is great in action.
