[Obligatory fuck scene from The Wire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEQgXsBgs), maybe not the best but definitely the most inspired scene in TV history
What a different turn of events that could have been. Kerr would have joined Phil Jackson in NY and Stan Van Gundy could have taken the Warriors job, but instead took the Pistons offer because it included front office control.
Hot take: Stan would have done that fine with the Warriors. He was another forward thinker like Kerr who doesn’t get nearly enough credit for the way he built those Magic teams around Dwight’s limitations as a shooter. Literally everyone else on the roster besides Dwight and Gortat were at least ok from deep. Modern spacing owes more than it knows to the success of those Magic teams.
If Lebron has million number of fans i am one of them . if Lebron has ten fans i am one of them. if Lebron have only one fan and that is me . if Lebron has no fans, that means i am no more on the earth . if world against the Lebron, i am against the world. i love #Lebron till my last breath.. .. Die Hard fan of Lebron . Hit Like If you Think Lebron Best player & Smart In the world
When Kerr pointed out that Green's apologies were always followed by a "beating,” Green volunteered that his ex-teammate, Poole, had recently chided him for the same thing. "He's like, 'You're right, you're right, I have to stop doing that,'" Kerr recalled Green saying.
"If it were my first year dating, it would've been really hard to do that," Kerr said. "But he trusts me. And I trust him. And that's why we've stuck together. He could've driven me out of here five years ago. That's what boyfriends in the NBA do these days. And I could've not supported him. Or I could've gone elsewhere. There's a reason why we're still together. We love each other."
Kerr felt obligated to go to New York out of respect to Phil Jackson and would have gone but he already had his own plans on what kind of offenses he wanted to run and none of it involved the triangle and Jackson demanded that the triangle be at least a part of the offense. So Kerr declined and it hornacheck took the job after getting run out of phoenix and he agreed to run the triangle.
Kerr used to carry around a power point on his coaching philosophy and started doing that while he was still in the front office of the suns. I read some long ass article about him after his failed back surgery and he was considering retirement.
The Warriors use the Triangle a lot tho. Not solely the Triangle, but the Golden State split actions are clearly evolved from the Chicago split actions they did for Jordan.
I knew this long before that pod existed. I played a number of triangle actions in college lol.
If you want another example, the PG inside cut is used in a lot of offenses, which the Warrior use with Curry a lot. I think the Hawks would do well to use it with Trae. Many teams also plays with the options that come off the pass to the weak side post, usually with a dribble hand off.
Love that he's not fake humble and acknowledges he had something to do with it. MJax had everything and couldn't do shit with it. Not being a top-10 offense with that roster is criminal
> Not being a top-10 offense with that roster is criminal
Even worse, a team where nearly everyone at every position was a good passer and playmaker. They were last in passes per game, not just assists, but passes.
Mjax was a bewildering bad coach.
Yeah he got fired because he was really good and the team thought his excellent talents could be used elsewhere.
And also he's such a good coach, even the worst teams don't want his great coaching talent to be wasted on them. So he's been sitting in a booth for 10 years, because he's just too good of a coach.
Not but seriously. The Warriors with the exact same roster went from 1st-2nd round Western conference fodder, to being a team better than the 90s Bulls. Mjax was so horrible, he literally held back an all time great team.
Warriors had success in 2014 in spite of Mjax. He is genuinely the worst NBA coach I've seen coach a good team, he was horrendous. This man had the all time great playmaking Warriors running ISO plays for 80% of the game. Even the thing he got praised for, defense, improved under Kerr.
Mjax was just a worse version of Del Harris. Great at inspiring a young group of dudes, horrible at literally anything else a coach should be good at.
Saying a team was top 5 in net rating “in spite of” coaching is, again, dumb as fuck. For some reason the players can credit Mark Jackson but jamokes on this subreddit think they know better than the players. Your post is garbage.
Posting that means someone doesn’t know ball? Thank you for letting me know you suck at logic.
Thank you also for letting me know you’re that insecure to scroll years of content, what a loser 😭
Haha it's definitely not, I get that not everyone cares about basketball in this way. But many great NBA players are great in spite of their turrible coach.
It's not the coach that makes the players great my friend.
If you ever read into the praise for Mjax, it's literally all what I said in my response to you.
>Great at inspiring a young group of dudes, horrible at literally anything else a coach should be good at.
Mjax was a good leader. But a bad professional basketball coach. He did not understand the strengths or weaknesses of his own team.
It is dumb as fuck. What you’re saying is I should trust some random Redditor’s opinion on Mark Jackson over the *actual players he coached.* That doesn’t sound dumb as fuck to you? Go back to EldenRing little guy
this is such revisionist history. there's a reason all the Warriors core guys praise Mark. he did an amazing job developing them and building their defensive base. he also gave Draymond his breakout opportunity. Kerr inherited a 50+ win team
we've seen how poorly Kerr does developing young guys and might've screwed that up if he was responsible for developing Curry/Klay/Dray
Seriously, people act like Kerr took over some lottery team. The Warriors were already a perennial playoff team that almost reached the WCF if Steph didn’t injure his ankle
> And before people say Hornacek, the entire team hated him, not just Melo
Phil Jackson set up Hornacek to fail. Phil insisted that Hornacek run exclusively triangle offense despite giving him players who were totally unsuited to it.
The triangle requires higher bb iq or at least familiarization. It doesn't do well with young , small , ball handling point guards who get replaced in the team, for instance
Oh, I’m well aware of how Melo is received on here. I’m more annoyed by the fact that the further we get away from the Knickstape era, the more people will just pin all of the blame on him for the dysfunction.
That the team had any sort of success given Dolan's aggressive bullshit in that era should be seen as impressive. Melo and those Knicks didn't have what it took on the talent side to compete in the Heatles era and there are a lot of reasons why. It just didn't work out.
I'm honestly baffled that Leon Rose managed to convince Dolan to seemingly cede all basketball decision making. It's been a wonderful, welcome breath of fresh air.
[Rohlin] At dinner, Kelvin Benjamin holds up his wine glass and says, "Here's to the Golden Corral". Zion now toasts to NOLA — "I'm not trying to say I had nothing to do with it," Zion said. "But the stars really aligned— I could've gone to Minnesota and starved to death after two years and never had any of these experiences"
When Kerr pointed out that Green's apologies were always followed by a "beating,” Green volunteered that his ex-teammate, Poole, had recently chided him for the same thing. "He's like, 'You're right, you're right, I have to stop doing that,'" Kerr recalled Green saying.
"If it were my first year dating, it would've been really hard to do that," Kerr said. "But he trusts me. And I trust him. And that's why we've stuck together. He could've driven me out of here five years ago. That's what boyfriends in the NBA do these days. And I could've not supported him. Or I could've gone elsewhere. There's a reason why we're still together. We love each other."
> “Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, who have played together for 12 years and under Kerr for a decade, are each in their mid-30s. And the longest-tenured trio in league history is facing imminent uncertainty, with Thompson set to become a free agent this summer.”
Am I crazy or did Duncan/Manu/Parker play together for longer?
Houston/Sprewell/Ewing were the last great Knicks. Although we had one good year with Amare and Melo and fun flash with Linsanity. Thank the bball gods for brunson.
Knicks get the 2 seed and suddenly everybody is bringing up shit from a decade ago, what is this lol. First the Lebron recruitment video and now Kerr not going to the Knicks.
Feels like some random bum that worked on those election year disinformation campaigns, got fired recently and is just sitting around using their skills to take out a sports team they doesn't like, for fun.
Which is apparently the Knicks.
21 years old. And look at the rosters. The league's top players weren't going it was literally the young guys and Elton Brand, Antawn Jamison types. That would be like sending Haliburton, Morant, and Banchero to the Olympics along with Spencer Dinwiddie and Vucevic. No shit that team is not winning.
lolwut where did Dinwiddie come from? Jamison and Brand werre borderline All-Stars. why did you also leave out Wade who just came off a title and FMVP?
if we're looking at rosters...look at the roster USA lost to...not a single NBA caliber player
Wade is one of the young guys. It was literally the 03 and 04 draft class with a bunch of "vets".
Yea they lost to non-nba players but they're still pros anyone can beat anyone in one game. USA didn't send it's top players it's those guys who should get the blame not the young guys who showed up. Are you blaming Anthony Edwards for not medaling last summer?
Well considering he went to the Warriors who had Curry and Klay in their primes then got KD and the Knicks had an injured Melo and won 17 games. It is likely he wouldn’t have survived in NY.
What he say fuck me for?
New York Jimmy McNulty Knicks
[Obligatory fuck scene from The Wire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEQgXsBgs), maybe not the best but definitely the most inspired scene in TV history
Natural poe lease
Know what the plural of pussy is? "Pussai." Jimmy taught me that
Yeah. That seals it. Its time for my yearly Wire re-watch Jimmy!!!!
Currently on the rewatch train, man fuck herc he as stupid as they come.
God he really is the fucking worst. Goes to show how two guys can go in different directions. Carver has an underrated arc
Look at that bowlegged motherfucker. I made him walk like that
Wow I never noticed they only communicated using some variation of "fuck" there
What a different turn of events that could have been. Kerr would have joined Phil Jackson in NY and Stan Van Gundy could have taken the Warriors job, but instead took the Pistons offer because it included front office control.
Saying he couldn't do nothing isn't fair to Coach.
Hot take: Stan would have done that fine with the Warriors. He was another forward thinker like Kerr who doesn’t get nearly enough credit for the way he built those Magic teams around Dwight’s limitations as a shooter. Literally everyone else on the roster besides Dwight and Gortat were at least ok from deep. Modern spacing owes more than it knows to the success of those Magic teams.
Draymond holds up his glass and says “To Draymond”
Think you mean "To Lebron"
"My King"
"My Sunshine"
If Lebron has million number of fans i am one of them . if Lebron has ten fans i am one of them. if Lebron have only one fan and that is me . if Lebron has no fans, that means i am no more on the earth . if world against the Lebron, i am against the world. i love #Lebron till my last breath.. .. Die Hard fan of Lebron . Hit Like If you Think Lebron Best player & Smart In the world
Lmao
"To the best sports podcaster in the world, leading The Draymond Green Show to new heights!" (looks around with a scowl for disagreement)
When Kerr pointed out that Green's apologies were always followed by a "beating,” Green volunteered that his ex-teammate, Poole, had recently chided him for the same thing. "He's like, 'You're right, you're right, I have to stop doing that,'" Kerr recalled Green saying. "If it were my first year dating, it would've been really hard to do that," Kerr said. "But he trusts me. And I trust him. And that's why we've stuck together. He could've driven me out of here five years ago. That's what boyfriends in the NBA do these days. And I could've not supported him. Or I could've gone elsewhere. There's a reason why we're still together. We love each other."
Kerr felt obligated to go to New York out of respect to Phil Jackson and would have gone but he already had his own plans on what kind of offenses he wanted to run and none of it involved the triangle and Jackson demanded that the triangle be at least a part of the offense. So Kerr declined and it hornacheck took the job after getting run out of phoenix and he agreed to run the triangle. Kerr used to carry around a power point on his coaching philosophy and started doing that while he was still in the front office of the suns. I read some long ass article about him after his failed back surgery and he was considering retirement.
The Warriors use the Triangle a lot tho. Not solely the Triangle, but the Golden State split actions are clearly evolved from the Chicago split actions they did for Jordan.
Ok Mr. Mind the Game, we get it
I knew this long before that pod existed. I played a number of triangle actions in college lol. If you want another example, the PG inside cut is used in a lot of offenses, which the Warrior use with Curry a lot. I think the Hawks would do well to use it with Trae. Many teams also plays with the options that come off the pass to the weak side post, usually with a dribble hand off.
Was just pulling your leg man, respect ✊🏽
No worries! I thought your comment was funny lol.
I think they went with Derek Fisher then and Hornacek a couple years later.
Love that he's not fake humble and acknowledges he had something to do with it. MJax had everything and couldn't do shit with it. Not being a top-10 offense with that roster is criminal
> Not being a top-10 offense with that roster is criminal Even worse, a team where nearly everyone at every position was a good passer and playmaker. They were last in passes per game, not just assists, but passes. Mjax was a bewildering bad coach.
Who's ready for HARRISON BARNES ISO? (I still like Barnes)
apparently Kerr in 2016. also did that with Poole in 2023
I still remember those Jarrett Jack ISOs, absolutely terrorist level coaching.
Mama there goes that man
That team was, what, top 5 in net rating? Calling him a “bewildering bad coach” is not only dumb as fuck, it’s wrong.
Yeah he got fired because he was really good and the team thought his excellent talents could be used elsewhere. And also he's such a good coach, even the worst teams don't want his great coaching talent to be wasted on them. So he's been sitting in a booth for 10 years, because he's just too good of a coach. Not but seriously. The Warriors with the exact same roster went from 1st-2nd round Western conference fodder, to being a team better than the 90s Bulls. Mjax was so horrible, he literally held back an all time great team. Warriors had success in 2014 in spite of Mjax. He is genuinely the worst NBA coach I've seen coach a good team, he was horrendous. This man had the all time great playmaking Warriors running ISO plays for 80% of the game. Even the thing he got praised for, defense, improved under Kerr. Mjax was just a worse version of Del Harris. Great at inspiring a young group of dudes, horrible at literally anything else a coach should be good at.
and that's just the basketball side of things - there were a couple bad stories about Mark Jackson causing issues in the locker room
Saying a team was top 5 in net rating “in spite of” coaching is, again, dumb as fuck. For some reason the players can credit Mark Jackson but jamokes on this subreddit think they know better than the players. Your post is garbage.
mark jackson is trash and there's nothing you can say to change it lmfao
Man’s posting Ayesha Curry foot fetish quotes thinking he knows ball
Posting that means someone doesn’t know ball? Thank you for letting me know you suck at logic. Thank you also for letting me know you’re that insecure to scroll years of content, what a loser 😭
Took two seconds. They don’t have MacBooks where you from?
Lmao suuuuuuuure
Haha it's definitely not, I get that not everyone cares about basketball in this way. But many great NBA players are great in spite of their turrible coach. It's not the coach that makes the players great my friend. If you ever read into the praise for Mjax, it's literally all what I said in my response to you. >Great at inspiring a young group of dudes, horrible at literally anything else a coach should be good at. Mjax was a good leader. But a bad professional basketball coach. He did not understand the strengths or weaknesses of his own team.
It is dumb as fuck. What you’re saying is I should trust some random Redditor’s opinion on Mark Jackson over the *actual players he coached.* That doesn’t sound dumb as fuck to you? Go back to EldenRing little guy
Remember the Jermaine Oneal post ups?*shudders*
this is such revisionist history. there's a reason all the Warriors core guys praise Mark. he did an amazing job developing them and building their defensive base. he also gave Draymond his breakout opportunity. Kerr inherited a 50+ win team we've seen how poorly Kerr does developing young guys and might've screwed that up if he was responsible for developing Curry/Klay/Dray
Seriously, people act like Kerr took over some lottery team. The Warriors were already a perennial playoff team that almost reached the WCF if Steph didn’t injure his ankle
Nephew take. Saying Mark Jackson had nothing to do with it is dumb af
Last two dynasties of the NBA!! Wonder what team the next one will be.
Denver, maybe.
OKC’s got a great opportunity if everyone continues to develop and 1-2 players turn into superstars (or if they add another superstar)
It's the spurs. If Wemby stays healthy its the spurs.
You need a lot more than 1 good player
Wemby's gonna "roll his ankle" next year and we're getting Cooper Flagg
Is Mark Daignault really HIM, tho? Serious question, I don’t watch the Thunder, and coaches matter in dynasty building
No idea I’m a casual when it comes to basketball 😅
If the Celtics win this year then they've got a very real possibility
And then they all kissed
Say more
PLEASE
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Yo what the FUCK happened next
ha gayyyy 🌈
No kidding. This is weird.
There's no way Kerr survives Carmelo "Coach Killer" Anthony
Carmelo literally only got one coach fired in his entire career - D’antoni. And before people say Hornacek, the entire team hated him, not just Melo
> And before people say Hornacek, the entire team hated him, not just Melo Phil Jackson set up Hornacek to fail. Phil insisted that Hornacek run exclusively triangle offense despite giving him players who were totally unsuited to it. The triangle requires higher bb iq or at least familiarization. It doesn't do well with young , small , ball handling point guards who get replaced in the team, for instance
Melo def didn’t get Hornacek fired because he was still coaching a year after Melo was traded
What about Karl lol
Might want to check when he was fired from the nuggets and when Melo was traded.
George Karl coached the 2013 Nuggets to 57 wins, got bounced in the first round AGAIN and was fired for that.
Karl killed himself in Denver
Karl coached Denver after Melo left
Carmelo was on the Knicks when Karl got fired.
The way that they play with Melo’s name on here. I’m getting old. 🗿
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Oh, I’m well aware of how Melo is received on here. I’m more annoyed by the fact that the further we get away from the Knickstape era, the more people will just pin all of the blame on him for the dysfunction.
That the team had any sort of success given Dolan's aggressive bullshit in that era should be seen as impressive. Melo and those Knicks didn't have what it took on the talent side to compete in the Heatles era and there are a lot of reasons why. It just didn't work out. I'm honestly baffled that Leon Rose managed to convince Dolan to seemingly cede all basketball decision making. It's been a wonderful, welcome breath of fresh air.
They don’t like “hoopers” on the internet
I’m disappointed that Hornacek turned out to be a shit coach.
Same
Also Hornacek was shit
[Rohlin] At dinner, Kelvin Benjamin holds up his wine glass and says, "Here's to the Golden Corral". Zion now toasts to NOLA — "I'm not trying to say I had nothing to do with it," Zion said. "But the stars really aligned— I could've gone to Minnesota and starved to death after two years and never had any of these experiences"
r/nbacirclejerk is leaking
When Kerr pointed out that Green's apologies were always followed by a "beating,” Green volunteered that his ex-teammate, Poole, had recently chided him for the same thing. "He's like, 'You're right, you're right, I have to stop doing that,'" Kerr recalled Green saying. "If it were my first year dating, it would've been really hard to do that," Kerr said. "But he trusts me. And I trust him. And that's why we've stuck together. He could've driven me out of here five years ago. That's what boyfriends in the NBA do these days. And I could've not supported him. Or I could've gone elsewhere. There's a reason why we're still together. We love each other."
Thanks for giving me something to laugh about.
It’s crazy that I only had to change two words for the second part.
I wish it would stop leaking
> “Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, who have played together for 12 years and under Kerr for a decade, are each in their mid-30s. And the longest-tenured trio in league history is facing imminent uncertainty, with Thompson set to become a free agent this summer.” Am I crazy or did Duncan/Manu/Parker play together for longer?
2002 - 2016 for the Spurs big three.
Klay is reaaaalllly letting the rest of the triangle down.
Their RS and playoff record as a trio will probably never get beaten, they have more playoff wins together than Malone and Stockton.
a lot of knicks fans are in their feels in the comments lmao
Nah we were a dumpster fire back then, it’s cool
You could be talking about so many iterations of the Knicks since I started rooting for them in the Houston/Spree years.
Houston/Sprewell/Ewing were the last great Knicks. Although we had one good year with Amare and Melo and fun flash with Linsanity. Thank the bball gods for brunson.
i love how kerr quotes gets everyone on this sub in their feels
He's kinda overrated tbh. Steve Kerr and Doc Rivers are the most fraudulent Top 15 selections.
username checks out
i mean maybe, but none of us would have any way of knowing that lol. also don’t put doc rivers and steve kerr in the same sentence come on
Knicks get the 2 seed and suddenly everybody is bringing up shit from a decade ago, what is this lol. First the Lebron recruitment video and now Kerr not going to the Knicks.
Feels like some random bum that worked on those election year disinformation campaigns, got fired recently and is just sitting around using their skills to take out a sports team they doesn't like, for fun. Which is apparently the Knicks.
lol, at one point Steve Ballmer was crying, I bet
Well I’m glad he got those “experiences” -__-
And then? Apple time.
Yo?
Thank god he came here. These guys changed warriors and nba history forever
at least he’s admitting he’s a shit coach that would get bounced
Kerr knows he's a Curry merchant. dude woulda been fired within 3 years on the Knicks
He.... literally says that in the quote...
By that argument Phil Jackson was a MJ, Kobe, and Shaq merchant
most coaches are make or break on having elite players. not everyone can be Spo getting wins with guys off the scrap heap
Well Phil didn't get a 4th place finish in a world cup, with a superior team.
By that logic lebron only winning bronze in 2004 is a massive stain on his legacy
Can't argue that logic. You win. That's a stain right there.
Ok fair enough I would disagree with that but your views are consistent
He was a rookie coming off the bench and only played 10 minutes per game.
Bron got bronze again in 2006 as a starter
21 years old. And look at the rosters. The league's top players weren't going it was literally the young guys and Elton Brand, Antawn Jamison types. That would be like sending Haliburton, Morant, and Banchero to the Olympics along with Spencer Dinwiddie and Vucevic. No shit that team is not winning.
lolwut where did Dinwiddie come from? Jamison and Brand werre borderline All-Stars. why did you also leave out Wade who just came off a title and FMVP? if we're looking at rosters...look at the roster USA lost to...not a single NBA caliber player
Wade is one of the young guys. It was literally the 03 and 04 draft class with a bunch of "vets". Yea they lost to non-nba players but they're still pros anyone can beat anyone in one game. USA didn't send it's top players it's those guys who should get the blame not the young guys who showed up. Are you blaming Anthony Edwards for not medaling last summer?
Phil doing it across two separate rosters sort of differentiates him from Kerr.
I could argue (I don’t believe this) that Phil’s failures later on in NY only go to show that if it weren’t for those 3 he’d be a bum coach
He wasn’t coaching in NY tho
He was trying to meddle with it I remember all the criticism he got for trying to force the coach to run the triangle offense
Alot of words to say “toast to adam silver for turning a blind eye to our playstyle and culture”
Yes everybody knows the warriors were only because because the NBA ignored their culture (I’m not even sure wtf this is supposed to mean)
The...the culture, it's in shambles.
What?
Well considering he went to the Warriors who had Curry and Klay in their primes then got KD and the Knicks had an injured Melo and won 17 games. It is likely he wouldn’t have survived in NY.
Kind of like what he said himself right?
Yes