Nate Tice

It was the only year in six years of AK and Mark Eversley where they made the playoffs.

Grayson wants his face.

And I still feel like in that case, in that case,

There was never a time where you needed to actually measure his in-game coaching strategy because they won one game out of that series, right?

Yeah, but also, you know, they played the Bucs well throughout the years when they were healthy enough, even without Lonzo.

Like, there were a couple games where Alex Caruso played out of his mind.

Here's the other thing, though, is how we're having trouble trying to grasp how much effect Billy had on those games is the same reason why we go back to the talent on the team and then try to communicate to you that the thing that matters the most here is the VP of basketball operations and the GM who put that talent on the court.

That is the quintessential foundation of how you evaluate in the NBA.

Exactly.

So if that is the case, Billy Donovan is still there for a reflection of what front office is doing.

And that's why it's so hard to figure out how in the modern NBA you want to bring in a GM and a VP perhaps of ops and have the same head coach.

You know, that's the hard part.

The coach has to be a reflection of what the talent is doing.

And all the time we talk about how

You know, DeMar played ISO ball, and he and Zach didn't have the same kind of rhythm.

You know, Zach goes down.

We see more out of Patrick Williams and Kobe White over that time.

It was all a bad fit, but I don't put that on the head coach.

I put that on the executives.

No, there does, but you may have to go back to Oklahoma City to figure out how much effect Billy Donovan has in games of consequence.