If the Kings can fire Mike Brown before the new year after the success of the franchise’s best two-year in two decades …
And if Nugets can finish Michael Malon with their team to finish 18 months removed from a championship, then in a loaded Western conference, sitting in a position that will allow it to take a dead target in two out of three …
And Naxal Tom Thibodo can say goodbye to a garden: After the effort, one can say goodbye that ends the dreaded Celtics season …
All, you, without any effect from Lebron.
Then, yes, Mark Diagnulat can be intelligent to prepare its resume.
Okay, is it very early today?
Say what you want about Shai Gilgas-Alexander shooting in Game 1 of NBA Final on Thursday night. He did it.
And, yes, as was apprehensive, the NBA’s most bright light proved to be very powerful for West Coast Conference-tested Chet Holmagren and Jalen Williams.
But it is not that Thunder finds himself against the passengers overmitted in a 1-0 pit. This unforgivable setback becomes square on the shoulders of Daigneault.
Let’s take a magnifying glass for four especially for credentials-lusting blunders …
– He started the wrong lineup.
It is difficult to believe, but the biggest sports event so far before the first second of the state of Oklahoma, the coach had messed up. Talk about the signal of things to come.
We all saw headlines, social media predictions, series obstacles. This was going to be the best championship game, well, the last time, Rockies were in a world chain.
The coach of the pacers Rick Carlisley was to be worried. He was not the only one.
Daigneault had to feel great about his opportunities. He was not only apparently.
This was Daigneault, not Carlisla, who first blinking an eye, deciding that it needs to change his initial lineup from one who rolled through the Western playoffs.
Message: We are very uncertain about ourselves, we need to make changes.
Finally, he was right – but for all wrong reasons.
– He scripted the wrong game plan.
Sure, it is possible that Gilgius-Alexander ran his team by Jeson Tatam by all. And if so, he is ashamed of Daigneault to not call the initial timeout to scold him.
More likely, the coach decided that he wanted to win or lose with the ball in the League MVP’s hands, and it is not that the Thunder was made successful.
If the OKC had a small vulnerability in the first three rounds of the playoffs, it was very highly shooting.
When the SGA took an average of 21.8 shots per game during the regular season, they added 51.9% of the time. In this way a guard MVP wins.
But in the Western playoffs, he hit more than 25 shots five times and went on those nights 13 -for -30, 10 -for -29, 10 -for -27, 12 -for -26 and 10 -for -26. If you are counting-so it is 55-for-138-a 39.9% clip that caused more harm than well.
Did Daigneault warns his star, performed on the biggest phase of his life, to reduce it a little? Yes. Sga went crazy, put 30 shots again and the pacers were dropped by about eight percent of the Thunder.
From the seat of General Manager Sam Posti, it is a testimony to the superiority of his roster that it can almost remove both Daigneault and Gilgeous-Aexander.
– ruined the challenge of his coach.
Okay, it was not expensive in the end, but nothing says that “I am clules” more than throwing the challenge of his only coach in a economical third quarter.
Forget that the call was clearly correct in the first place. Careless treatment of potentially valuable late-game assets is smacked: We are far ahead, it doesn’t matter.
This is the kind of thing that a GM thinks: Does this man really know a lot about basketball?
– His team was not fully prepared for a tight finish.
Okay, the prestio gets blame for this. They put such a strong roster together, at least six games were decided in a regular session near the Thunder, and then only three with only three under five points in the playoffs.
Therefore, yes, he did not have much game experience on the fact that when the opponent, below one, jogged into court in the last 10 seconds of a game.
But this does not mean that he never practiced it. Or at least it should not mean.
Shouting “Double Heliberton” with millions of spectators, Daigneault not only saw his people trying to deal with him with a man, but also did this with his ace defender, Lu Dort, who stood in a corner associated with Andrew Nambard.
This is true: Even though the retrieving defenders had a lot of time to take their opponent, it was Kaisan Wallace that challenged Heliburn. And it was walless, all by themselves, who shot the new Mr. Clutch of NBA to the sports-winner.
Should Dort be on Heliberton? Did the thunder double him? You call. There is no wrong answer.
Should Wallace take him one by one? If they receive a call from the prestio at the end of this week, the assistant coach Mike Wilks will be intelligent to respond: “I have doubled him, boss.”
It can only earn him a promotion by Sunday.
