Originally Posted by
PoeticJays
Originally Posted by
JapanAir21
I could coach that Heat team...
The dude's rotation is Haslem/Chalmers. I could think of that...
The dude draws up how many plays?
He's not that good, it's just the Heat players are.
Cmon now.
It's not just the rotation he decides on, or the specific plays he calls during the games. If that was all there was to coaching, any highschool coach would be able to do his job.
Its all the things that he's implemented that got Miami to this point. The habits created at the beginning of the season, the philosophy and scheme that he has to get the players to buy into. Miami is winning the title based off their DEFENSE, not what plays they run out of timeouts. You think you could have taught them that?
At this level, coaching is more about managing egos and getting everyone to buy into the scheme and come together (which I would say Spo has done an excellent job at, given how scrutinized this team was during the regular season) than actual X's & O's. And nothing shows how successful a coach is at doing this than how the team plays on defense, where everyone has to work together as a unit for it to be effective. Defensive breakdowns are the first thing to pop up when a team isn't unified (i.e. this year's Lakers).
Based on your logic, anyone could have 11 rings if they coached MJ/Scottie/Shaq/Kobe right?