David Locke is a Clown

[Handlogten's Heros]

I wish they had never signed Whiteside and forced Snyder to experiment and introduce small ball into his system. Whiteside signing was supposed to be situational, take burden off Rudy, add another guy on the bench. But what happened is it allowed Snyder to just play his normal Gobert scheme the entire game, every game of the season. And of course, the every good team knows how to disable the Gobert defense now. They all saw the Clippers series. It’s been happening all year. And he never tried to build another option we could go to.

I regret nothing with Whiteside. I never thought we were real contenders though. The Whiteside Roller Coaster was one of the more fun things about this season... which 1000% tells you about how the season went.

I also think Hassan was kinda homies with Rudy and I feel like he need some homies.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I regret nothing with Whiteside. I never thought we were real contenders though. The Whiteside Roller Coaster was one of the more fun things about this season... which 1000% tells you about how the season went.

I also think Hassan was kinda homies with Rudy and I feel like he need some homies.

You can tell Hassan 1000% feels the same way Rudy does about not getting the ball and how much he has to help bad defense. Hassan just looks over it 75% of the time.

 

[homeytennis]

The good news about not believing Quin is the problem is that we can spend another couple years spinning wheels until we realize that's the case. We will get worse results next year, and I'd expect this same argument to happen. You can't have guys consistently not coming out ready or focused over the course of an entire season and not point blame to the coach. Again, it's the captain of the ship blaming the guy at the wheel. If the captain isn't always at the wheel, there's some assumption that nothing can be his fault.

Sloan or Belichek wouldn't put up with this jackpotting around or playing in tuxedos. They would get players in here that would play hard and smart.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

You can tell Hassan 1000% feels the same way Rudy does about not getting the ball and how much he has to help bad defense. Hassan just looks over it 75% of the time.

I also respect that it looked like we might be moving away from Hassan and we went back to him and he locked back in and gave us some good basketball. He was also mostly fun. Sometimes basketball should be fun.

 

[Avery]

I don't think Quin is a bad coach, but he's not the coach for where this team is right now.

If Quin stays, it's only because there's a massive change-over in supporting cast.

 

[The Fresh Prince]

Also, why not go to Hassan in the deep post if he is in the game? He's actually been proven to be very effective against small ball. You can tell his energy was super low because he would never get the ball. A couple time he ran the court on fastbreak to get deep position against a small in the post and he never got looked at.

This right here. Did Hassan even shoot 10x this series? We were pretty successful as a team when Hassan would get 7-10 shots a night. Ironically when we never go to him we end up losing games, or barely squeezing out a win.

 

[SojoDave]

I heard Locke said something I do believe. He said, "The front office is full of smart guys, the coaching staff are smart and tried their hardest, the players are good guys and try their hardest, this just hasn't worked."

 

[SoberasHotRod]

I think criticism of Quin in this series will depend on what you think an NBA coach should be held responsible for. His offense generated open looks to great 3pt shooters. The defense, in this series, was kind of ok. His substitutions get a lot of criticism, but we only had one player the whole series who played really well, so you can't really point to a substitution that would for sure have made a big difference.

How responsible is an NBA coach for motivating, taking care of locker room stuff, and managing egos? I'm honestly not sure.

All that said, this is the 3rd year in a row that we have underperformed in the playoffs in my opinion. I think Quin needs to go, and maybe more importantly seems like he wants to go.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I think criticism of Quin in this series will depend on what you think an NBA coach should be held responsible for. His offense generated open looks to great 3pt shooters. The defense, in this series, was kind of ok. His substitutions get a lot of criticism, but we only had one player the whole series who played really well, so you can't really point to a substitution that would for sure have made a big difference.

How responsible is an NBA coach for motivating, taking care of locker room stuff, and managing egos? I'm honestly not sure.

All that said, this is the 3rd year in a row that we have underperformed in the playoffs in my opinion. I think Quin needs to go, and maybe more importantly seems like he wants to go.

I think he checked out a while ago and I think the players knew it.

 

[MT Steve]

I heard Locke said something I do believe. He said, "The front office is full of smart guys, the coaching staff are smart and tried their hardest, the players are good guys and try their hardest, this just hasn't worked."

Credit to Locke for putting out such a milquetoast non-answer.

 

[LoPo]

Everybody is part of the problem.

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[bopahull]

I use to listen to Locked On daily. I dont anymore. I think since Ryan Smith bought the team, they definitely turned the dial up on the propaganda.

Though there is still value in listening to him. You have to kind of read inbetween the lines of what he says and how he says it. He definitely doestn believe everything he says and you can tell if you've listened to him for a while.

I haven't been able to stand listening to Lock since he was on sports talk radio before he went to Seatle.

 

[infection]

How responsible is an NBA coach for motivating, taking care of locker room stuff, and managing egos? I'm honestly not sure.

For argument’s sake, let’s say it’s not in the coach. Who, then, is charged with that role?

This may be the crux of the issue: the organization doesn’t see that as being a role. Motivation and focus are supposed to spontaneously arise out of a vacuum.

 

[mongoose01]

The Jazz should trade everyone and keep Quin. It does no good to get a new coach to start a rebuild anyway. Might as well try to get some assets somehow and maybe even tank. Unless you can get a pick for Quin, and in that case- see ya!


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[str8line]

The Jazz should trade everyone and keep Quin. It does no good to get a new coach to start a rebuild anyway. Might as well try to get some assets somehow and maybe even tank. Unless you can get a pick for Quin, and in that case- see ya!


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Love it. Blow it all up and drop off Quin in the middle of the desert with his tank. That sounds fun.

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[Rubashov]

Everything I've heard is that Rudy is for the chop the rest will get another chance to stink it up.

 

[Aneurism]

There aren't many media outlets that like to talk in-depth and with close organizational contact about the Jazz. Regardless of take, it is an opinion and voice like any other that I take into consideration and am happy to listen to.

All I know is that as someone on the other side of the Earth, if the discussion points from Locke disappeared, there would only be 1 other show that would be worth tuning in to. So clown or not, at least he is doing something that fans can listen and tune into (and as a whole provides a wider service for the fans of the Jazz). This is a service as a whole that we should be grateful for.

 

[TheStormofWar]

Quin isn't THE problem. But he is A problem. Let's be frank, the Jazz have run the same schemes for years and gotten their balls busted by teams who know exactly what's coming and how to beat it. For some weird reason, fans put Snyder on this pedestal despite the fact he gets run out of the God d*amned building every year by a team that can exploit it. And he does nothing to seemingly counter it.

The Mavs go 5 small, like Houston, like the Clips, and we can't exploit this or counter? A bit of perimeter D maybe so Rudy doesn't have to rotate off the help? Drive the lanes to exploit the lanes? Get their "bigs" in foul trouble?

Eventually, this ceases to be a personnel issue and has to be a planning problem. Quin is a very good coach, but I suspect his inability to adapt is a large problem.

 

[silesian]

Snyder proved his chops in his first few years with some young talent that needed to be whipped into shape. Rudy is not Rudy without the early years Quin. Just watch his sideline coaching then versus now. He was doing real time player development. Not so sure how elite he is when he started focusing on strategy and adjustments.

 

[silesian]

Ainge either needs to get Quin the roster construction he asks for, and then Quin is 100% accountable and it pays off next year, or they need a new coach.