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NT, what's your view on Avery Johnson?
It seems to me that the Mavs don't play as hard as they did when he 1st took over a couple of years ago. Looks like he's overcoaching and trying tocontrol the game too much by calling every play. The Mavs have one of the most simple offenses in the league and they are just plain boring to watch..
He makes some terrible decisions in the playoffs or big games...
Examples:
- he once designed a game plan to let steve nash score on his team at will because he thought nash was more dangerous as a distributor
- he rarely gave marquis daniels playing time in the finals or makes adjustments to take advantage of mismatches
- rested his starters too much at the end of last season, and kept them out of the last game which eventually got the warriors (a team they struggled w/ allseason) in the playoffs setting up a 1st round matchup
-team leads NBA in victories and he changes his lineup to play the 8th seeded team
-keeps J Kidd on bench @ the end of spurs game
-last night designs a play for J Kidd to shoot a 3 in the last few seconds of a game.
At the rate the Mavs are going they're going to end up the 7th seed and have to begin the 1st round of the playoffs on the road.
So what happens if they lose in the 1st round again? Do you think he should get fired? Can you explain a reason to keep him if you go from finals, to back toback 1st round exits?
P.S How much blame do you put on Nelson and Cuban for signing a bunch of unathletic washed up shooting guards?
It seems to me that the Mavs don't play as hard as they did when he 1st took over a couple of years ago. Looks like he's overcoaching and trying tocontrol the game too much by calling every play. The Mavs have one of the most simple offenses in the league and they are just plain boring to watch..
He makes some terrible decisions in the playoffs or big games...
Examples:
- he once designed a game plan to let steve nash score on his team at will because he thought nash was more dangerous as a distributor
- he rarely gave marquis daniels playing time in the finals or makes adjustments to take advantage of mismatches
- rested his starters too much at the end of last season, and kept them out of the last game which eventually got the warriors (a team they struggled w/ allseason) in the playoffs setting up a 1st round matchup
-team leads NBA in victories and he changes his lineup to play the 8th seeded team
-keeps J Kidd on bench @ the end of spurs game
-last night designs a play for J Kidd to shoot a 3 in the last few seconds of a game.
At the rate the Mavs are going they're going to end up the 7th seed and have to begin the 1st round of the playoffs on the road.
So what happens if they lose in the 1st round again? Do you think he should get fired? Can you explain a reason to keep him if you go from finals, to back toback 1st round exits?
P.S How much blame do you put on Nelson and Cuban for signing a bunch of unathletic washed up shooting guards?