Where have you been? This horse has been beaten to death many times. If the PF can't guard anyone in the post and you keep putting him to there, who's fault is it?
Again....oversimplifying the issue. Asik and Howard can't play 48 minutes each. That means TJones must play some minutes. Also, there was a cost to playing twin towers that much, primarily fouls and playing 4 on 5 on the offensive end. Why is it McHales fault that Asik can't finish and that he has to play his centers so many minutes that they pick up tons of fouls in every game?
Same reason why, after you buy a new television, and you find that the audio is faded and the video is staticky after you get home, you return the lemon to the store and buy a new television.
and then the new TV is also faded and staticky and thats when you realize that the problem is you are getting old and you can't see or hear for **** hahaha :grin:
Fans can easily see when a player screws up or performs well. The actual value of a coach is less tangible and more difficult to discern (i.e. the Battier Paradox). Thus the easy answer is always to blame it on the coaches.
I was actually thinking about this earlier and I was wondering if there was a way to come up with some sort of stat to measure every decision a coach makes during a game, and tell us if that coach is good or not, maybe we can call it coaching percentage! If I had to guess i would say Mchale is coaching at like 50% which is not bad when you consider Popovich is only coaching 60%
/thread. It's that simple. You can't remake your roster very easily. You can't improve a player's god-given talent. You can't undo your draft picks. Oh! But with a stroke of this keyboard we can undo a coach! And, in fact, it can make a difference. The Warriors before Mark Jackson were a complete shambles, for instance.
The Warriors had their worst record in a decade Jacksons first year... Jackson didn't have a winning season until they got rid of Monta Ellis.
We won immediately after the adjustment. But it was two games too late. Beside, other than the TT solution, there was also the possibility of DMo which he never even tried. I'm fine with giving McHale one more year. But I've been saying this all along. The difference between a great coach and a good coach is not much. But the difference between a good coach and a bad coach is big. So the goal is not to find a great coach but to avoid a bad coach.
It's simple really. A pro coach gets paid a ridiculous amount of money to do a job that most people would love to have for a fraction of the salary. When they do that job poorly, people will call for their jobs. Now, the idea that a coach has no effect on a game is just silly. Why even have coaches then? Coaches can control ... - Pre-game preparation (the fundamentals of how players will play together in game) - Motivation (speeches, pep talks) - In-game adjustments (calling specific plays, switching defensive assignments, calling time outs at key stages) - Substitution patterns (resting key players, avoiding foul trouble, subbing out under-performing players, bringing in specialist players like 3-point shooters) - Influencing the refs (pointing out missed calls)
