I only brought up Nurse because right now he's not looking like a good coach to me. Who cares about the regular season, just like with Joe, we're judging by the playoffs.
Embiid is back and so Nurse is now coaching that 64-win pace team again, but he's down 3-1 to a team missing their All-NBA forward.
It doesn't appear to me Nurse has made any adjustments or changed his game plan at all this series. He failed to call a timeout during a Game 2 collapse.
I think Nurse should absolutely be criticized for not going to Embiid in the 4th, and not properly staggering Embiid's minutes so he's not so gassed in the 4th.
Judging Nurse on this year's playoffs, to me, he's not looking like a good coach.
Judge him the same way we judge Joe.
New York's a good team, it's not like it's supposed to be a cake walk here, but if Nurse goes out in 5 (with an ineffective 4Q Embiid again), I'm judging.