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Kevin B asked in SportsBasketball · 7 years ago

How does Scott Brooks still have a job but Mark Jackson not?

I simply don't understand what Mark Jackson did to get fired. All he did was take over a team that has historically been awful, and with pretty much the same core players they had before, win 47+ games two years in a row and win a playoff series last year. And it's not like they weren't competitive in the playoff series against the Clippers this year. In fact, they were probably more competitive in the series than I would have expected them to be on paper, especially without their top interior defender in Bogut to guard Griffin.

Meanwhile Scott Brooks over the last five years has had the 2nd best player in the NBA (Durant), a top 5 point guard (Westbrook), the best shot blocker (Ibaka), and until the past 2 years the best sixth man (Harden). What does Brooks have to show for this? 1 measly Finals appearance (where he was embarrassingly outcoached) and 0 championships. It honestly amazes me that Brooks hasn't gotten more criticism and that he's lasted this long. It must be the result of coaching a small market team. I can't see any way he'd have lasted this long in a large market.

Anyways it just boggles my mind that Mark Jackson would get fired for losing to the Clippers (a more talented team on paper) in 7 hard-fought games, and yet Scott Brooks, who has had 5 years with an immensely talented team and done next to nothing with it, keeps his job year after year.

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  • Eddie
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    7 years ago
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    One thing Scott Brook team is still in the playoffs and I am sure if he got bounced in the first round he would be gone also. I do not mean to say that is why Jackson lost his job but when a team has high expectation and you do not get along with the people that employs you then their is a good chance that you will lose a job.

  • 7 years ago

    OKC has better ownership then the Warriors. Teams that change coaches every couple of years will always be mediocre. OKC has a good thing going, they've had a great team for two or three years now. Brooks is a good coach, the only excuse for firing him would be if the team stopped listening.

  • 7 years ago

    Scott Brooks has taken the Thunder to the Finals and the team have finished in the top 2 seeds ever year for the last 4 seasons I think. Also they are still in the playoffs right now.

    The NBA is a little crazy. The Grizzlies fired their coach after going to the WCF for the first time ever last year. The Clippers fired Vinny Del Negro after a 57 win season. The Nuggets fired their coach last year after finishing in the 3rd seed. Its all bout expectations and if the coach can take the team to the next level. A lot of guys are unfairly fired but its all up to the GM

  • 7 years ago

    If you ask Stephen A Smith its because he's white and Mark Jackson is black and all white coaches are treated better according to him

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