Though he publicly called out his team for not playing reliably great basketball, as Monty Williams drove home after the Suns’ loss to the Thunder on Wednesday night, he felt like a “dufus” for how he let his team down.
More specifically, Williams believed he wasn’t holding them accountable for the high level of basketball the team is capable of playing and that they need to play to win.
“Sometimes I have to say things that they may not want to hear but that are the best thing for them,” Williams told reporters this week. “I felt like I let our team down, let our coaches down by not enforcing the kind of play that we saw (against the Warriors).