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Cake day: October 19th, 2023

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  • Coaches are the biggest X-factor for any team. I guess everyone “knows” this, but many teams still for some reason treat coaches like they are expendable. They get thrown under the bus as a scapegoat in a lackluster year, or because of pressure from their clueless fans.

    And mediocre coaches with strong rosters keep teams in purgatory, since they get all the credit. It’s the weirdest dynamic. It’s like no team can figure out if a coach is actually good or not, and just make impulsive decisions solely based on the W-L column.

    It was monumentally stupid for the Raptors to can Nurse, as it was for the Bucks to fire Budenholzer. Celtics losing Udoka was for different reasons, but I think they also won’t get over the hump with Mazzula at the helm, despite their roster “upgrade.”

    Sixers needed to pay a top-tier coach like 5 years ago, it’s exciting to see what Embiid does with that