And guess who returns to Indiana tonight? Nate McMillan, might be the swan song for Bjorkgren
McMillan and ATL should put a 40 piece on them for the hell of it
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McMillan and ATL should put a 40 piece on them for the hell of it
Dude stinks
sacramento smacked them in the mouth last night tooAnd guess who returns to Indiana tonight? Nate McMillan, might be the swan song for Bjorkgren
think bagley had 20/10 at the half or something ridiculous those players done with his ass
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ReggieFlare
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The Hawks did this...witness greatness
No idea why Indiana let him go. It's not like that team was underachieving
They had four straight first round losses and four previous in his tenure in Portland. I'm guessing that they thought that they had the talent to be better than what they are/were. Problem is, the majority of those dudes on their team are injury prone and always have been, yet they still brought them in on the cheap. Someone on the Pacer's SB Nation website summed their issues up perfectly:
Ever wonder why the Pacers have so many injuries? Maybe because they have to take chances on talented players with poor injury histories to try to squeeze out what production they can without paying the max. Danny Granger fell in the draft thanks to knee concerns and was awesome until knee issues eventually slowed him down. Myles Turner dropped due to concerns about his running gait. Malcolm Brogdon had foot injury issues. T.J. Warren had injury red flags, but was free. As frustrating as the injury issues are, it isn’t shocking.
They weren't underachieving but they were also stagnant. 4 straight 1st round exits under Nate with 3 of them being sweeps, not many coaches would survive that.
I view him as the coach you need to make your team competitive, but not good enough to take them to the next level.
Granted, a lot of those issues with the roster in Indy wasn't his own fault but he still had to take the fall for it.
ReggieFlare
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Ahh, honestly I forgot he was coaching them that long. Thought he was only there for a year or two
When you put it into context I don't think it's as bad
2017 - Swept by Cleveland with Paul George having one foot out the door
2018 - Took Cleveland to 7
2019 - Swept by Boston, no Oladipo
2020 - Swept by Miami, no Sabonis & crippled Oladipo
But like I said, regardless of context not a lot of coaches can survive 3 first round sweeps in 4 years
And it's not a bad roster at all as they have a collection of talented dudes. They're just injury prone with no sense of direction of who or what they want to be.
UserNameless
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Dirk could go out there right now , cold, and get 15 & 5
bulls destroying us inside
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what is the point of biyombo
tremonthustler1
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Because Nate was the antithesis of analytics (teams were at the bottom in 3's shot and free throws shot) and it kept burning him in the playoffs