re: Plea to the Monty haters

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Monty has said over and over "We are a help defense team." Now, what he likely means to say is, "Ideally, we are a help defense team, but we are not helping effectively at the moment."

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Which is problematic and a horrible philosophy to go by. I understand help defense being a key cog in strategy, but if the Pelicans are going to be this bad at defense, they should've just hired D'antoni to coach this team. At least his teams have some semblance of offensive creativity and structure.

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The guy knows what he wants and know that leaving open 3 point shooters at a high rate is simply unacceptable, but if the guys do not execute well, then something has to change. That could be the demands (so Monty or his expectations), the players, or method of implementation (part of which is the staff).

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When this has been a problem for 3-4 years now with the player overhauls this roster has had, then it points to poor coaching at the top. Fact is that this team is poorly coached. PERIOD. It is treading water based on talent alone.

Monty is simply a bad coach right now. He has potential, but isn't ready to handle this situation. He lucked into a great situation his first year, much like Trent Johnson did at LSU, and has been horrible since.