Among the most popular coaches in the NBA, so much so that the death of his wife Ingrid caused great emotion in the league in 2016, Monty Williams finally gleaned his All-Star stripes this year.
A few months after reaching the Finals for the first time in his career on an NBA bench, the Suns coach was actually “in charge” of Team LeBron, in Cleveland, during the last All-Star Game. Surrounded by the best basketball players on the planet, the one who is the favorite for the 2022 “Coach of the Year” trophy had the opportunity to get closer to certain players with whom he has never been able to chat.
Starting with Nikola Jokic, visibly fallen under the spell of a Monty Williams just as “real” as him.
” If I had to remember one thing from this All-Star Game, it would be Monty Williams.“, confessed the MVP 2021, about his executioner of the last playoffs. ” It surprised me, in a good way. He touched me as a person, as a man, as a coach, as a human being. With his calm, you feel like you can talk to him about anything and that aspect of him surprised me. Just being around him was cool. I was able to talk to him a bit, he gave us a speech and the way everyone listens to him, without him shouting, just remaining calm, is really impressive.“
Chris Paul’s favorite coach
And the compliments of Nikola Jokic, meanwhile praised by the legendary Bill Walton, can only be supported by Chris Paul. Especially since the latter is very well placed to talk about the one who trains him, in Phoenix.
” At this point in my career, I can’t imagine myself playing for another manager, and I’m serious. “, recognized squarely the leader of the Suns, who had already been able to rub shoulders with Monty Williams in New Orleans, in 2010/11.
At the time of the Hornets, therefore, Chris Paul was the leader of a young group and unable to go far in the playoffs. Nothing to do with the situation he knows today in Arizona, a decade later…
” What’s cool is that we both had the opportunity to grow, each on our own, and then find each other. I haven’t seen anything like Monty [Williams] and all his staff “, assured “CP3”, whose absence for the next six to eight weeks risks handicapping Phoenix, and his coaching staff, currently leading the Western Conference (48 wins – 10 losses).
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Devin Booker | 51 | 34.1 | 44.6 | 36.9 | 86.3 | 0.8 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 25.5 |
| Deandre Ayton | 37 | 29.1 | 63.3 | 22.2 | 72.8 | 2.6 | 7.6 | 10.3 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 16.5 |
| Chris Paul | 58 | 33.0 | 48.7 | 33.0 | 84.3 | 0.3 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 10.7 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 14.9 |
| Mikal Bridges | 58 | 34.8 | 53.0 | 36.5 | 84.0 | 1.0 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 13.4 |
| Cameron Johnson | 55 | 26.0 | 46.0 | 43.0 | 84.6 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 11.9 |
| Frank Kaminsky | 9 | 20.1 | 54.5 | 33.3 | 90.0 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 10.6 |
| Cameron Payne | 40 | 20.4 | 40.4 | 33.6 | 86.4 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 10.4 |
| Javale Mcgee | 52 | 16.1 | 65.7 | 33.3 | 68.3 | 2.3 | 4.6 | 6.9 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 9.9 |
| Jae Crowder | 48 | 28.2 | 39.5 | 33.7 | 81.0 | 0.5 | 4.8 | 5.3 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 8.9 |
| Bismack Biyombo | 17 | 18.1 | 61.5 | 0.0 | 52.9 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 6.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 8.5 |
| Torrey Craig | 3 | 19.6 | 58.8 | 37.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 7.7 |
| Landry Shamet | 45 | 19.8 | 37.0 | 35.3 | 85.2 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 7.4 |
| Aaron Holiday | 3 | 13.2 | 69.2 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 7.3 |
| Jalen Smith | 29 | 13.2 | 46.0 | 23.1 | 76.9 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 6.0 |
| Elfrid Payton | 38 | 11.7 | 39.4 | 28.6 | 39.3 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 3.3 |
| Paris Bass | 2 | 3.7 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 |
| Abdel Nader | 14 | 10.4 | 34.3 | 28.6 | 60.0 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 2.4 |
| justin jackson | 6 | 5.8 | 35.7 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 2.2 |
| Ishmail Wainright | 29 | 7.4 | 36.2 | 29.0 | 42.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1.9 |
| Chandler Hutchison | 6 | 3.7 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
| Emmanuel Terry | 3 | 6.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 5.0 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 |
| MJ Walker | 2 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
