Head Coach Darvin Ham Discussion: Hot Pockets

Good lord dude..how did your superior genius coach manage to lose this game anyway? Jeesh

 

Could win it all this year as is.

 

Didn't need one either it turned out.

 

You could be right.

 

Yup. Hopefully, he will learn over time. At least he has this team playing excellent defense again.

 

I'm good with Darvin. For whatever reason, this guy keeps the team in contact, with a chance to win in the 4th quarter on most nights. It doesn't matter who we have or who we are playing, that's a talent for a HC. Monty Williams went to the Finals with little experience, and besides Kerr, none of these other HC in the West have a lot of deep playoff run HC experience either. He's not perfect, but he has a knack for reading his guys, and getting them to play hard, hopefully Lebron and AD will lead the way in the playoffs. It's not like he's never been on a Championship winning team's coaching staff, as the lead assistant either. I'm a believer.

 

lack of 3rd quarter adjustments, but way to let the team play through their deficiencies and figure things out. We need time on the court together, and is there any better way than making mistakes and overcoming them?

Kudos. Genius. Probably inspired by Kurt too.

 

Lol..I didn't think Kurt will be in the locker room cursing him out anytime soon.

 

The zone was a good adjustment

 

Ham is underrated

 

I agree, a good honey baked ham is delicious. But this coach? Nah, he ain't it.

Fr though, he reminds me of Dave Roberts in some ways. Former player who's good in the locker room, keeps guys motivated, they seem to like him, he can manage personalities pretty well, especially with people going in and out of the starting lineup or rotation - but he makes boneheaded decisions and in-game mistakes some of the time, leading to a lot of criticism. They're overall good for the team but not top tier in-game, maybe not even above average.

 

For whatever criticisms everyone has, these are the objective facts:

Losses by less than 6 points (two possessions): 12 games

Losses by more than 14 points* (blow out): 10 games

Half of those bad losses happened in the first 12 games. Since then we’ve played 55 games and had 5 blowouts only. That’s not a bad result at all and at least points to something the coaching staff are doing right since blow out losses do correlate with bad coaching.



* I chose 14 instead of 15 since there was a few 14 point games that were bad losses but would of painted the picture with a bias if it was 15.

 

You know, he has had a krappy roster most of the time and now he is having to learn who he has on the clock, so all his attempts to figure what will work and when it will work is right on the job. Even Phil would have some problems with that. He would NEVER have taken this job because dealing with that was a basic requirement.

I am not convinced he is a great coach but it is hard to blame all this on him with the lousy roster we have had. We have the rest of the year to judge him on, if he makes some mistakes along the way that cost us in the playoffs, then I may feel differently but for now, I am more with him than against him and feel we should give him a chance.

 

he deserves next year. i just can't make any judgments of a guy who had to do deal with russ. impossible situation.

 

He deserves nothing. We will just be prolonging the suffering and winning inspite of him, much like what happened in the Totonto game.

He stood there. The entire awful 3rd quarter and did NOTING. Most of the time he didn't even approach the bench, just stood by the scorer table. He took 1 timeout the entire quarter.

I am sorry. That's not a good coach nor is it a "rookie mistake". My dead blind cat knew we needed to take a timeout to stop the bleeding.

 

You sure are fixated on the time out thing seemingly to the exclusion of any of his good attributes. A lot of the early 2/3 of the season lineup stuff I agree it’s fair to cut him some slack with the roster he had plus the “Russ” situation. Since the big trades his starting lineup immediately with the Vandalorian inserted and his rotations have been fine. Defense obviously has picked way up and the team hangs in there and plays hard for him. Who knows …. maybe he was trying to test if they could regroup themselves. Certainly not a fireable offense. As well am not saying he doesn’t have room for improvement.

 

FYI all dead cats are blind

that's like saying Pork Bacon, so redundant

 

That's how obvious that crap was.