J.B Bickerstaff Post Game Press Conference (1st win)

abaker28 · Nov 19, 2015

JayGoogle said: ↑

I want to say this about Bickerstaff vs McHale.

I think there is a reason why great players make usually bad coaches. I'm talking all time greats as McHale is. I think part of it is they see things through the eyes of a player. That is "Just play better. That's all you have to do." great players tend to think that if they play how they are capable of they will find success. It's no coincidence to me that McHale's main thing was just getting the players to play harder.

With guys like Bickerstaff...who did not have a successful career as a player it's something more. THIS coaching thing IS his legacy. Mchale has his playing days and the glory of that to always fall back on. Bickerstaff doesn't. Therefore he has to go out and prove his worth to the players with his strategy, adjustments, and all of that stuff.

Now we see how hungry he is for success as a coach. Is he going to just think what McHale did was enough? Is he going to learn from his mistakes and learn more about the game? I think that's the big question here for JB moving forward. He has to be sponge and he has to be determined to squeeze every ounce of talent out of this team.

It will be interesting to see how he responds and reacts. He did do some things different yesterday and that was with no practice or shootaround so for me that was promising...but to be fair to McHale we do not know if that was the plan all along going into that game.

What I hope for is that JB is ready to again squeeze what he can get from out of this team. If Brewer is playing like crap to throw in KJ and see if you can get something out of him. Exploit match ups like we did last night. Defend situations differently like we did last night and just adjust on time.

For him it's very important for him to get early success as he does not have a legacy of being a great player to fall back on. The players will only respect him if they can believe he's helping them win.

Also to not blame the players so much as Mchale did in post game conferences. That was very annoying.
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Great post.
I'm prepared to give JB some time.
Thing about McHale that annoyed me the most was he just seemed so damn deflated and defeated. Like he'd given up. And if I can see that from the very little I see of him, surely the players noticed that being around him as much as they are.

Pass 1st shoot 2nd · Nov 19, 2015

hakeemthagreat said: ↑

I like his confidence guys. He just has that look like a coach players wanna play for
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I am down on this team. Coaches don't get stupid overnight.

RV6 · Nov 19, 2015

Nook said: ↑

No, I don't think players are looking to see if their coach is standing up or sitting down or is animated. There have been coaches successful with all of the above.

Never played in the NBA, but in college never thought about it, was too concerned on assignments to ever even give it a though.
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I'm not saying that determines how successful a coach is. ..but players have to look at their coach for instructions and still have peripheral vision. The cameras also catch coaches making direct eye contact and speaking to players when the possession changes. I find it hard to believe that catching a glimpse of their coach would be unlikely or that it wouldn't move them some, to see their coach physically animated.

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