forget about the nba system of having everyone follow the head coach. let's do it football style so there is room for other coaches to use their talent: Head Coach - philosophy / motivation Offensive Coordinator Defensive Coordinator Perimeter Coach Post Play Coach Shooting Coach choose current or former coaches. doesn't matter if they have never been a head coach before. college coaches are allowed. you may also choose former players, but not current ones. here's mine: HC: Mike Krzyzewski - Duke and Team USA OC: Pete Carril - Designed Princeton Offense, former Adelman Assistant DC: Jeff Van Gundy - Top 5 in opponents FG% every season he's coached PC: Michael Jordan - a master at both ends, and at both guard spots PPC: Pete Newell - famous for his big man camp SC: Mark Price - all time leader in career FT%, top 20 in career 3pt%
Didn't Newell pass away recently. I always thought that Hubie Brown would be great for this Rockets team. Maybe not in years past, but with our depth this season, i think he would be great. I don't know too much about him because he was before my time when he was a coach, but i was sooo impressed by him turning the Grizzlies around using a 10 man roster.
Head Coach Rudy Tomjanovich Offensive Coordinator Greg Popovich Defensive Coordinator Jeff Van Gundy Perimeter Coach Mario Elie Post Play Coach Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Shooting Coach Calvin Murphy
Superstars are notoriously bad coaches because they see the game differently than normal players and sometimes can't accept other's failures/inabilities. I would much rather have a hardworking scrub who scraped out some good seasons rather than Michael Jordan.
Head coach: Jerry Sloan Offense: Don Nelson Defense: Jeff Van Gundy Perimeter coach: Pat Riley Post Play coach: Greg Poppovich Shooting Coach: Craig Hodges
agreed. but in this instance i see the perimeter and the post coaches as instructional development coaches. in this role, i think a former superstar would be an asset. i'm sure you were as excited as all of us when hakeem worked with yao for a week. IMO gundy's biggest mistake in houston was turning down the likes of kareem, russell, hakeem, and walton, who all wanted to work with yao.
either Popovich or Chief Triangle. their accomplishments ath the NBA level speak for themselves. the likes of coach K, while wildly successful in the college ranks, would have much difficulties handling the egos of the multi-millionaires over the course of a LONG LONG NBA season
i can respect a different opinion, but if you are going to disagree with choices made my me and antisonic then you should be willing to share your choices for all of the coaching spots as well. i think saying a college coach can't handle the nba ego, and thus lead to less success, is a weak argument. forgive me if that sounds harsh. i dont think that anyone can guess how someone like coach K could do if given the chance in the nba. he hasn't proven to be able to handle million dollar ego's, but he hasn't failed at it either. other college coaches might have failed attempts in the nba, but other college coaches weren't selected to lead team USA. coach K is in a very special class of basketball coaches. i'm pretty sure he could have had an nba career, but duke gave him a lifetime contract (worth millions). he would be crazy to leave.
Definitely Poppovich Last night was a perfect example against NJ, up 1 with 35 seconds to go, draws up a perfect play for Ginobili to drive to ball to the left wift and then drive towards basket and sets up Finley for three in the right corner, he's the best coach in drawing plays out of timeouts. I can't think of other coaches at the moment.
forgive me if that sounds harsh, it is a most convinceing argument, one which ur unwilling to accept. he was given a chance. Dr. Buss, w Kobe' blessing, offer Coach K top $$ to coach the LAkers after Phil had retired. Coach K turned it down; afraid to fail in the NBA. it is safe to say he was less inclined to be a complementary role to multi-millionaire whose future is not dependent on the head coach. in College BB the coach calls the shots; in the NBA the players untimately call the shot. ur ill-informed. Bobby Knight, a college coach, coach the first Dream team in the 84 Olympics, the first time professionals NBAer were allowed to play on the team. Bobby Knight is coach K's mentor. he often said that he could not in the NBA. Coach K values Knight's opinion. i m pretty sure ur just blowing smoke
of course you consider your own argument convincing. i don't, and it's ok to disagree on that. this isn't a new debate. many people have argued over weather a college coach can handle the nba. secondly, duke did offer him a lifetime contract. that is very true. did he sign a contract that says he'll coach till he dies? no. but they told him the job is his as long as he wants it, they put it in writing. so coach K was offered the lakers job after the zen master (of all people) walked away from the drama... or he could make a similar (but less of course) amount of money staying where he is revered AND has ultimate job security. you call that being afraid of the lakers. i ask you then, what was phil jackson when he walked away that year?
Head Coach - philosophy / motivation Jerry Sloan Offensive Coordinator Jerry Sloan Defensive Coordinator Jerry Sloan Perimeter Coach Jerry Sloan Post Play Coach Jerry Sloan Shooting Coach Jerry Sloan /jk /s
