re: Bill Simmons Calls SVG "Worst Coach in the League"

It’s a dumb take and SVG’s response was perfect.

Even Simmons couldn’t maintain his hot take 30 seconds after he said it and began waffling.

It reminds me again of all the dumb commentators calling Thibs washed because he couldn’t get Wiggins and KAT to give a frick on defense. That even Jimmy Butler, once a big proponent, was looking to get out as fast as he could. Or how Frank Vogel was once considered a relic and the worst possible coach for Orlando. Proof positive Orlando didn’t have a clue. LA made a huge mistake and should have gotten Lue.

Fact is coaching matters but it matters less in the NBA than any sport and any time I hear someone try to shuffle most of the blame on a coach for a teams problems I immediately put them in the category of the low IQ reactionary fan.

I mean does anyone with a working brain think that if we had CP3 instead of Bledsoe that this team wouldn’t be a top 5 seed this season? Before NAW, Hart, and Lonzo all got hurt, this team was beginning to roll. But this team has lacked a playmaking guard, spacing, and a true lockdown defender all season. Adams is who some of us thought he was but many wanted to believe differently and the vets we brought in were all career role players that learned to defer to stars as their leaders, not be one.


Sports media is driven by signal boosting each other’s most inflammatory and controversial takes, incentivizing the increased perpetuation of the behavior, Simmons knows this, I wish more people wouldn’t fall for it.