Is head coach MONTY WILLIAMS a good fit for the Detroit PISTONS? | Yahoo Sports

Is head coach MONTY WILLIAMS a good fit for the Detroit PISTONS? | Yahoo Sports

But John of course has a question to ask me about the team in my region the Detroit Pistons so go ahead John what you got well this is tied into a little piece of news which is that Chris Paul returned to the Golden State Warriors last night yes he did and this coincided

With uh a couple of friends that I have a couple people that I follow on social media as well that happen to be piston fans that are not you claiming this guy Monty Williams can’t coach and the Pistons gave him a long contract with a lot of money I hope

That’s not true I hope that he can coach there’s some evidence that he can coach I tried to make that argument and they came back with no Chris Paul was coaching those teams and like not all of Monty Williams success overlaps with when Chris Paul was on his team but a

Lot of it does so I wanted your take as someone who actually probably does watch more Pistons basketball than a normal human being should I think the answer can lie somewhere in between I think Monty is a coach especially probably at this a stage of his life where he needs

A locker room Advocate a locker room firing Brimstone type that Chris Paul is Chris Paul doesn’t mind being a bad guy right and the Monte had some stuff going on with DeAndre aen and I think he’s there’s some been some regrets there he openly kind of ad to it even while

Everything was going on there are some things about Monte this year that have concerned me the treatment of Jaden Ivy or the or the deployment or lack of deployment of Jaden Ivy the tethering to Killian Hayes like I’ll never understand the whole Killian Hayes thing even now James

Wisman who I who I understand why the Pistons are playing him but I don’t get why they’re they’re playing him like it just it doesn’t it it doesn’t make sense um I think just like players can have bad seasons and bounce back I think coaches can have bad seasons and bounce

Back the one thing you can say even throughout most of that 28 game losing streak or whatever it was aside from a few games they were they were still competitive they were still at it they were still going so they haven’t quit on him right even the devastating game

Against the Knicks where they were clearly robbed by the league because Dante Divan chenzo hit assar Thompson in the strike zone in a way that Ray Lewis would have been proud cuz he hit him right on the numbers right you have a back toback from New York to Chicago

Normally you’re dead the next day you got nothing that team went out there yesterday and played the best defense that they played all season that coincides with Isaiah Stewart coming back and they won a road game and that is their ninth one of the Season I’m not going to throw roses at anybody’s

Feet I think it speaks to two things one if if you got to convince a coach two or three times to take your money that should be a red flag that’s like asking a woman on a date like six or seven times if you get no the first

Time you normally back off you normally not not don’t get me wrong I’ve had my days of persistence right I’ve had my days of persistence but usually that persistence only lasts for so long before people go back to their first impressions of you and vice versa vice versa right John

There’s been there’s been like ah let me talk myself into this thing and it may go for a minute and then I’m like but wait I initially thought this I’m not changing my mind so I wonder if part of this is that but part of me also wonders

If they have said to Monty at this stage once they realized that this is not a playoff team which was you know fairly early right they went from two and one to two and forever hopefully they’ve told mon hey just get through this season get through

This year and we’re going to put more veterans around we’re going to put more players that can fit the style that we want to play and the style that you want to coach so hopefully and I’m sure Monty you don’t have to give him true St

Monty would say hey I haven’t done a great job with this team I haven’t been able to figure the talent out with this team so I would say if everybody is jumping on the Chris Paul as coach thing did Chris Paul lose that 20- lead in the NBA

Finals to the Milwaukee Bucks cuz if that’s the case we should put him in the same category that we put Doc Rivers in it’s fair it’s fair I I mean look it you where you take credit you also take blame the jik thing is inexcusable that’s inexcusable I’m sorry

That that’s an excusable and then also like again piston fan friends so I I get I get kind of in the weeds with them sometimes and they were all really upset that he wasn’t playing Mike mcalla despite the fact that Mike Mike mcalla was like one of the Pistons good players

Like he was playing James wisman instead of Mike mcalla and I believe Mike mcalla was was bought out he just got buy out so he can go go play with a contender which is probably why he’s wasn’t playing Mike muscala yeah yeah yeah yeah um yeah because they’re I guess they’re

Not trying to win although Monty said they’re trying to win yeah that was a weird thing like the things that’s the confusing thing for some people that he’ll come out and say in the first practice after the Y St break hey no more experimenting no more just throwing

Lineups out there we’re trying to win games in this last whatever of the regular season and then he throws out the all bench lineups and then he throws out you know he playing 12 guys that’s inconceivable in today’s NBA Tom tho doesn’t realize that the Knicks have 12 players on the damn

Roster all right he’s playing three all right wait yeah I have I have a question though about this whole Monty piston situation okay and it’s it’s gonna piggyback on what happened with the Bucks like a month ago okay so the Bucks hire Adrien Griffin but they’re keeping Doc Rivers around not keeping they’re

Bringing in Doc Rivers to be like an advisor right he’s ADV visor to the team he’s he’s helping Adrian Griffin all that stuff we saw how that worked out the first sign that like oh Adrien Griffin’s not it they bring in Doc the Pistons had a very good head

Coach a guy who won coach of the year not that long ago and they were like Dwayne Casey we’re pushing you to the side you’re an adviser or whatever part of the front office now and we’re bringing in Monty Williams I don’t think that that is a great formula for

Success granted Monty’s going to get his bag either way right but now you have the old head coach who and and the new head coach and they’re both in the building at the same time you know how coaches work they’re not going to be aligned on absolutely I don’t well I

Will say this Dwayne’s been on the road a lot Dwayne goes on the road and does a lot of a lot of scouting and what part of that comes down to is when they brought Troy Weaver in Dwayne Casey was the incumbent and usually you bring a GM

In you allow him some level of autonomy to keep the head coach and not to say that he probably didn’t have the option to move on from case if he wanted to but with where we were as far as the pandemic where the team was as far as

Going to go from a transition to remember they had Blake Griffin on that roster and dere rose on the roster and all those other guys they have to shed a lot of some of that old long money to get to a point where they had you know

Flexibility and then you go into the coaching search where even the coaching search was raggedy you know by and large there was uh there was Charles Lee and what’s what’s the coach in Brooklyn Kevin Oly and uh jiren Collins and then Monty Williams appears and they’re like

Hey Tom Gores wants him AR tell him wants him let’s throw him the bag and all the circumstances surrounding Monty Williams that he sort of laid out his wife his uh his second wife now or before during the summer having breast cancer and I think it was breast cancer

And now that you know some of that was cleared up and everything else like felt better to coach but it goes back to knowing where you have to have a lot of awareness I think this is what this is how I can sum this all up you have to

Know where you are as a franchise you literally whether it’s Dwayne Casey or anybody else as a coach you have to know where you are as a franchise you have to know if you’re ready to run or if you’re ready to jog and this team was still in a

Very walking stage a crawling stage they’re not ready to run yet they’re not ready to jog yet they are still figuring out a lot of things about who they are who they should be they they just had to outright release the number seven pick in the 2020 draft Killian Hayes

Cuz cuz the kid can’t play not not at this level not right now and yet and still he was being given an inordinate amount of opportunities especially over a guy like Jaden Ivy I will say this about Ivy Ivy’s competing now and Ivy has a certain level of resilience that

He wasn’t letting this situation be beat him down and now you’re moving forward with okay let’s see what let’s see what happens with K Cunningham who’s balling now K Cunningham has been balling since the All-Star break and you’re trying to figure out where does K and Ivy fit

Together and all that stuff so yeah it it’s a lot going on maybe we’ll do a deeper dive over the summer because people ain’t coming here to listen to no damn Detroit Pistons podcast okay

Is head coach Monty Williams a good fit for the Detroit Pistons? Yahoo Sports senior NBA writer Vincent Goodwill discuss whether or not Monty Williams is a good fit as the head coach of a young Detroit Pistons team and wonders if the pairing got off on the wrong foot to begin with.

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