vspan: NBA nearly destroyed me, but I no longer hate Van Gundy's lies

I wouldn't be surprised if JVG never was a head coach in the NBA again. He would make someone an excellent defensive assistant coach. He's just not great when it comes to managing people and that could be seen with not only his roster decisions but also how he got into conflict with the front office. I don't think you can see his tenure here as a complete failure, but at the same it wasn't a big success. A lot of people want to give him credit for Yao's development, but I don't think you can give JVG credit for Yao's success just like you can't pin all the blame on him for V-span's failure in the NBA.

 

I don't think so. Can you tell me where Jeff could find that job couse for me he won't be a coach maybe not anymore but not in the nearest future.

Right. Jeff could be an asistant coach cause his decisions are sometimes stupid. As you said he doesn't have deep rotation (like he did in Houston, 8 players max) and he doesn;t have the greatest relationships with some of the players.

 

He was a coach of the year candidate! Knicks hasn't done **** since he left them. His first year as a coach for the Rockets he got them into the playoffs. I don't see any reason why JVG would have problems getting a job when you have guys who lead their team to the lottery multiple years in the East still remain as coach.

 

Well V-Span's sole highlight of the entire season was the defense he played against Arenas. V-Span just admitted that his defense is weak, and that he doesn't feel he's up to stopping an opposing PG by himself.

Bad JVG

Love the interview though, thanks for the translation. It's pretty amusing to see that V-Span is actually more delusional than his fan-boys.

 

Any coach can make a healthy Yao and Tmac to playoffs.

 

The Vspan love in here is amazing. In the words of Alan Greenspan, Vspan-lovers suffer from a bout of "irrational exuberance."

 

cf Doc Rivers, Boston Celtics

 

Except the irrational exuberance should have vanished after the tech bubble burst (or in this case, Spanoulis was revealed to be crap).

JVG will be a head coach again.

 

Can any coach take a sophomore Yao and a team with Cato, Francis, Mobley to the playoffs? Not to mention the fact that we had Jimmy Jackson starting and our backup PG was ... i don't even remember. Oh and Mo Taylor was our backup PF...

 

All-time quote right there. Talk about driving a stake into one's credibility.

 

all vspan had to do was accept the sh!tty role JVG gave him to start off with.

if he could've accepted that role and mastered it, then in future seasons he would've gotten the opportunity to expand his game out on the floor.

in my mind, all he had to do was see his "meaningless" role as an opportunity instead of a punishment.

it was his attitude towards it.

it's like with any job. he needed to prove himself as an "entry level" employee (back up conservative PG). you gotta earn your stripes man. promotions aren't given, they're earned. you can't just be CEO overnight.

 

I can't dissagre that Jeff has a great season with Rockets last year cause the record 52-10 includin' Yao's injury (32 games) is really amazing. We had one of the best defensives team in the NBA but we didn't have ofense(remember we have Tracy and Yao). The defense worked in the season but it didn't work in the playoffs + we didn't have ofense.

Look at Mavs and Jazz series. You're 2-0 after 2 games and you lose 4-3 twice. That happend twice in 3 years, that tells you something

 

no coach is going to get along w/ all of his players, but jvg has a long trail of former players who loved playing for him, credit him w/ making their games better and claim he was the best coach they ever played for.

ive come around to believe that adleman is a better fit for this team as it is, but jvg will have a number of jobs waiting for him if he wants to coach again. the guy was name dropped as a top 5 coach of the year candidate for much of last year. its pretty silly to say he is done as a coach.

 

I did a global search on your message but I didn't find a word 'tmac'.

 

Which post was the one in your sig from? You have to put up a link....please.

DD

 

it is so sad.

VSpan still doesn't realize that he was given a ****ty role on JVG's team because he was a ****ty player.

man, this happens every year to every team at every level in every sport.

it is so sad when jocks just don't get it.

 

[ot] it's from the "Asset forfeiture" thread in D&D.[/ot]

 

Maybe because this was pre-McGrady trade?

 

Nah, I think the more appropriate term here is "cognitive dissonance".

 

wouldnt surprise me either, but it will be because he doesnt want to. Not because he isnt offered jobs.

he had the 8th highest winning % among active coaches and 22 all time. Thats good, btw.

personnel problems? for every v-gina there is 15 players who would go to war with him.

Front office problems? He didnt kiss les' butt like les would have liked but more and CD liked the guy a lot, from the looks of it.