its not the wins, he played guys like 40mpg, countless bigg leads were blown because of fatigue, not one young player developed under his watch
In today's league, it's not up to the head coach to develop players.
Teams literally have specialized trainers to do that, and if guys aren't developing on a team, it's typically the fault of the whoever's handling them, the scouting team and/or the GM. Head coaches are essentially last on the list in terms of blame for developing players. Coaching, in general, is such a hard thing to scale because you rarely ever know who's truly at fault for how a team is performing.
nurse's defense is to shut down the opposing franchise player and let the rest of the guys cook
embiid already called him out on that. he cares more about locking him up than actually winning
in his defense though, masai hasn't helped him out at all. but nurse doesn't put any emphasis on development which is why they never had a bench and which is one of the reasons why he's gone
Even though that's dumbing down his defensive philosophy,
cutting off the head of the snake has typically been the most viable strategy with limiting a team's offense. It's just hard to have any consistent results with any method given how offenses are structured [floor spacing] and how skilled players are. One thing that is especially hard for a coach in the NBA is to get guys to not only adhere to your defensive principles, but getting them to stay buying in.
You've got coaches like Nurse and Thibs who're micromanagers on defenses and that can gradually bleed guys out, especially if they've been the coach for a long period like Nurse has in Toronto. It's really no direct fault of the coach, but it can wear on guys who don't have the same desire for that end of the floor.
” raptors been a sinking ship ever since dude bounced 
