Monty Williams appreciation thread

No get his team to beat sub .500 teams first

I will never claim that Monty isn't improving as a coach. It's the damn pace at which he's learning and the floor he started from that drive me mad. If this was year 1 I'd be alright with him and maybe even pleasantly surprised right now that the team is playing at this level. The problem is it's year 5 and I'll be damned if I'm willing to risk the next 2-3 years with him to find out he's still an idiot. There's quite a few other things going on that coincide with winning lately. Monty gets his share of that praise, but he doesn't get the majority just because people crap on him all the time.

This is why he's such a shitty coach. He can get the team to play up to competition, but he can't motivate them to beat teams that they are better than.

I give him props on those good wins, but there's two problems with this.

1. He can't consistently beat better teams
2. He can consistently lose to worse teams

That leads to being sub-par in records most of the year. No point beating OKC/Hou x2 if you lose games to NYK, Boston, Philly, Denver x2, and Indiana

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That leads to being sub-par in records most of the year. No point beating OKC/Hou x2 if you lose games to NYK, Boston, Philly, Denver x2, and Indiana

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Boom roasted. Thats it.

If we were just a bad team thats one thing...but we see the talent this team has in games like last night, beating a team that we probably should not have beaten with arguably our 2 best players (one being a top 5 player in the league) sitting on the bench.

I understand that even the best teams have off nights and I get that, but good teams would never lose to the 76ers, Nuggets, and Knicks in a two week span

Monty has been better and I applaud him for last night but the losses against bad teams is what gets me...those consistent types of losses scream team immaturity and subpar coaching

Thats my complaint

QM, your point is based around the fact that Monty is a world class motivator against good teams. Which may be true. However, giving players the blame for playing down or up to opponents is equally plausible. I don't judge him on the quality of losses or wins, so I'm not speaking for the board. I'm speaking solely for myself. The Monty subplot is something I pay close attention to and despite my perceived "melts" on here about him, I feel fairly objective. I'll expound on last night:

- BAD: the TO called when the crowd was roaring and we were up 9-6 early in the first was dumb as nails. I popped into the game thread during that TO and commented on it I thought it was so dumb. Lo and behold, the Clips come out of the TO and go on a 7-0 run.

- GOOD: the shorter timeouts for the rest of the game when the Clips would make a run.

- GOOD: resting Asik when Jordan would sit. Keeping Ajinca on a short leash when Jordan returned.

- GOOD: Staggering Gordon/Evans in the 2nd half.

- BAD: hero ball and clock draining offense late again.

- GOOD: Evans the distributor, including a back door cut by Cunningham for a dunk with the game on the line.

- MORE GOOD/SOME BAD: the perimeter defense. Gordon and Evans are so strong they allow a ton of flexibility with who they guard. We took advantage of that last night. The bad part was how often our bigs ended up guarding guards on the perimeter.

this is an appreciation thread. i'm not reading monty bashing.

New Orleans has sone bi polar fans lol