04-02-2019, 05:11 PM
(04-02-2019, 03:53 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I think Marvin was a good regular season coach and a poor playoff coach.
There were 2-3 season when we had a really good roster and that was short lived.
I still think the failures of this team go back to the lack of scouts and free agency strategy. Even our best rosters had glaring weaknesses like Center and MLB that I think a lot of teams would address to try and win a SB.
We chose to roll cap space over citing the future. That future would have been the past 3 years.
Marv was a good regular season coach but that ended in 2015.
I think a truly good coach can coach up players into being something like Belichick does.
We will see, hope Taylor and his guys can do this.
(04-02-2019, 03:55 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Marvin never lost a single game due to his offense being too conservative with a lead. But he did lose at least one game by throwing the ball late in the game with a lead when he did not have to.
No he didn't. He just did not play the guys the fans felt he should have. And almost none of those "stars" Marvin supposedly kept on the bench went on to be any good for any other team in the league.
You have said this many times and i just disagree with these statements completely.
I, as have many, have watched many games where Marv must of put his nose into the Offense and we played not to lose. If you do not believe that go ahead and live in your own world Fred, the rest of us can see. We never did what the Patriots do at times and that is just run up the score on another team. We have had many different OC's under Marv and this has always been the one constant.
Whether it is passing when you should run or running when you should pass, you do what is working.
You don't play not to lose, it always seemed this was the case with Marvin Lewis.
