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Wow Shams bomb.
So Monty taking the fall here? What’s up with that?
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Reminds me of the Vogel situation a bit. Team seems to have less of an identity than they did when things were going good, Monty doesn’t seem to have that same push the young guys type of influence he had before. Who knows if CP3 is coming back, Monty and Ayton fell out awhile again and Ayton has already stated he wants to stay long term. Who knows how much Booker responds to him at this point but watching them play he basically kills every set they run with an iso anyways. I’m not in the locker room but it seems like Booker now views himself above the influence of Monty or CP3.
And it’s not like Monty did an amazing job overall. It seem that way with the turnaround initially for sure, but they hit a wall. They were solid, he didn’t do bad, but seems like the consensus is they’ve underachieved the past couple years and the year you could argue they overachieved they ran into injured Lakers, inured Nuggets, injured Clippers.. all who were coming off postseason runs the year before and had the shortest off-season in NBA history to recover from.
They couldn’t defend Milwaukee, couldn’t defend in the playoffs last year, couldn’t defend this year.
I wouldn’t say it’s Monty’s fault, but with as much player/coach movement as we have now it’s not a shocker honestly. Frank, D’Antoni, Bud, Nurse, all those guys were dropped too and might have reached higher highs than even Monty did.
Biggest reason this is such a head scratcher to me is it falls under the “but who available is better” category. Similar to Vogel though, if he doesn’t have the input within the locker room he once did maybe that doesn’t matter. Gamble on a coach who maybe isn’t “better” but gives a new perspective in that sense. I’m not sure there is a single thing Ham does better than Frank, but players are obviously more bought in from an outsiders perspective.
In this era it seems voices get stale, players move around too much to really build an identity like before. You aren’t really developing decade long culture and chemistry and getting players to fit that. You’re building on stars in short windows.