If you look at the past and even present, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isaiah Thomas and others...these players do not make good coaches. The thing is, they were phenoms, naturals at their positions. The things they can do, no one else can do as consistent and natural as they could. The same goes with Dream and Ewing. I mean look...Dream came over to the U'S to UofH and was just good instantly and became great! He never really had to work too hard to become the Dream. Ewing on the other hand had to work at his game and he became better as his career went on. I mean he was always good but he was never as natural at things as Dream. With this said, my point is...when things come natural to you and you are just great and you can fly like Jordan with incredible body control, shoot like Bird and move and shake like Dream at 6'10 it is hard to coach someone else and teach them to do things cause you get frustrated cause the things you try and teach them dont come as easy and natural. Make any sense? I hope so...this is why I think Ewing makes a better coach than Dream would even though Dream was a much greater player. Look at all the coaches in the league today, most of them when they played were decent role players, not great by any means and some of them never played but yet know all the fundamentals. I hope I made some sense here...I tried, this is my take. What is yours?
My take: Thank you for starting a new thread instead of placing your post in an already existing thread with the exact same topic.
No problem...it gets more looks this way. Thanks man, sometime you gotta be smart about stuff. Instead of worrying about that...if you have a comment about the issue then post it! How about that, its a new concept.
It is very difficult for a superstar to mentor a younger player because the younger player rarely if ever has half the God given talent the mentor has. I agree with you there. Now with Ewing. If we could only raise his IQ by 40 points, and get him to stop spending so much damn money! That would be great!
Larry Bird did pretty well with Pacers, unless your critiria of being a successful coach is winning a ring.
Smart and you are diametrically opposing forces. There is no new concept. Stick to the old ways. http://bbs.clutchcity.net/php3/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60001