re: Don't Fire Monty!!!

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no, I wasn't...I never claimed that I was...that's the team's job, not mine...I'm just saying now that the team screwed up, and Lamb is clearly much better than Rivers right now.

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he should be asking me. If I wanted to dig in facebook, I had a conversation with a friend about not wanting rivers, but lamb with the pick because rivers does everything that EG does, cept worse. at least lamb could hit free throws and shoot 3s at a higher %

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You act like Lamb is an all star, he is not. Just like Rivers, he is a bench player. I am not too bummed out about missing out on him.

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we aren't, we're clearly stating the simple fact that lamb is a better player than rivers.

You have some weird love fest for rivers, i just don't understand. But hey, that's you.

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he is a bench player.

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so is Jamal Crawford, Markieff Morris, and Taj Gibson.

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You have some weird love fest for rivers, i just don't understand. But hey, that's you.

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...and Monty.

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OKC is also one of the best teams in developing players that may play factor in it. Look at Ibaka, Jackson, Westbrook, and Harden.

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but...but
monty is awesome too

he produces GV, lopez, aminu, ryno, and AD

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OKC is also one of the best teams in developing players that may play factor in it. Look at Ibaka, Jackson, Westbrook, and Harden.

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EXACTLY...the point of this thread...better coaching!

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You act like Lamb is an all star, he is not. Just like Rivers, he is a bench player. I am not too bummed out about missing out on him.

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You have had some horrible rebuttals in your own thread. And have contradicted yourself a few times too.

First, its Monty is a great coach and led us to the playoffs with CP3 and "nobodies". Which isnt true. He inherited a team with the best PG in the game in CP3, 1 of the better PFs in the game in David West, and other good players like Ariza, Belli, Okafor, Peja, Thornton, Jarret jack, and Carl Landry.

Then try and say Monty has improved players. And use examples such as Ryan Anderson, Aminu, Rivers and AD. Ryan Anderson has been the exact same player hes always been. Aminu and Rivers are still garbage. And most 1st year players improve going to their 2nd year. Like AD has. If he played more than 28mpg last year, his stats improvement wouldnt have been nearly as much as it was. His PER 36 last year was like 17pts, 10rebs, and 2.2 blocks. Not far off what hes averaging this year, when hes playing 35mpg. So our guys havent really improved. And what about the players that have regressed under Monty? Like Gordon and Tyreke? The 2 highest paid players on our team.

And then your response was well Demps got us shitty players. Do you really think that the GMs dont work with coaches in sports? And that GMs just go and sign players that they want to sign? Because thats not how it works. And we were in tank mode to rebuild draft wise, and we succeeded. We got AD, no brainer, then Monty had to have Rivers so took him as well. And look at the players Demps has got then past few years. Holiday, Anderson, and Evans are good NBA players. Its nobody's fault that Holiday and Anderson have been hurt. Just happens. But its been evident that Monty cant figure out how to best use Evans. And has never talked with Evans about his role. Its like he just randomly throws Evans out there.

And finally, we get on the Rivers draft pick situation. It was Monty who wanted to take him and lobbied for him leading up to the draft. Took him over guys like Lamb, Harkless, T.Jones, etc. And a lot of people wanted Lamb. Your response to that? Its not like Lambs an all star. Hes a bench player like Rivers. Not a big loss. For real? Its evident that Lamb > Rivers and has a much brighter future in the NBA. And being a bench player for OKC and playing legit minutes and contributing is a little different than backing up Brian Roberts. So your not too bummed out on missing out on a guy that is better than Rivers and would be a better player, making our team better? Yeah that makes a lot of sense.

Weve got the star. Weve got good, talented players around him (former / potential all stars). We dont have the coach that could unit the squad and bring it all together.

If Monty developed is a great talent developer with Aminu, Jason Smith, Vasquez, Lopez, Rivers, etc, why are we still in the position for the lottery 3 years straight?

nono, you just simply talked yourself into a corner.

first you said monty should stay because we have talent and it isn't his fault we got riddled by injuries.

then you said dell demps is crap because he got us no talent.

Monty hasn't developed players or projects into impact players for our team.

ETA: Ryno and the great chief were trade acquisitions, remember that. who trades/signs players? Dell...right?

ETA2: dell acquired EG from the CP3 trade. at the time he was a very up and coming SG. Evans was a ROY and rare 20/5/5 player. Last year, he played his most efficient and see what happens when he comes here?

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ETA: Ryno and the great chief were trade acquisitions, remember that. who trades/signs players? Dell...right?

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I have been told that Monty has a huge say in the signing and drafting of our bad players. Can the same not be said for the good?

I do not agree but KG thinks to think all the bad players we have signed and drafted is Monty's fault.