I dont get why it's such a bad thing to say Spo is just an Ok coach who is blessed that he happens to have the best player in the league. It's like unless you say he's god its an insult.
Mike Brown won 60 games a year almost with Bron and I don't think anyone would put him in the top ten coaches list. Same with Brooks in okc. In the NBA it's the players that count a lot more some times.
Spo is a good coach and nit exactly mike brown teir but it's not an insult to say he's not a great coach because he's not. He has the too player and two top 15 players... It's hard not to be successful with that.
It's ignorant is what it is. Spo was a good coach before he got the Big3.
Other coaches have had championship level rosters and failed miserably. Once Spo got championship level talent, he was contending for championships. People like to bring up Dallas in 2011. Besides the fact that Spo admits to his shortcomings (in only his 3rd year as a HC), the roster past the starting 5 was injured or garbage. Only 7 guys from that roster remain. And JJ had about as many important contributions to the last two rings as I did. The first year was the year they were most-likely to lose, and even then, it took 6 games of incredible play from the Mavs to beat them in the final series of the season. It wasn't like they flopped horribly.
Bron never liked to play the 4, and fought all his coaches on it. He now plays the 4 readily. Not on coaching? Bosh hated playing the 5. Complained about it to no end. He now plays the 5 readily. Not on coaching? Bosh was viewed as a poor defender in Toronto. Now he's an integral piece of our heavy-trapping pnr defense. Not on coaching? Shane's guarding 4s on a regular basis. Ray is handling the ball a lot more than Doc allowed, and is initiating pnrs. Bosh plays the 5, but spends most of his time out on the perimeter shooting midrange or 3s. Ray was disappointed with coming off the bench in Boston, but now embraces his role as microwave offense. These are all coaching decsions. On top of that, the team remains Top10 in ORTG and DRTG every year. That's something I don't remember any Nelly team accomplishing.
Once again, Pop and Vogel both made the same decision that armchairs ripped apart after they lost. They were forced into tough coaching decisions by smart coaching moves made by Spo. When Bosh went down, the great Pat Riley said go big. Spo went smaller. That's a coaching decision. He's doing it his way, but he's finding far more success than anyone else who's tried it. A big part of it is the talent he's got to work with, but you can have all the attachments and gadgets on the finest gun made, but if you can't shoot straight, it's worthless. You have to use the talent you got, and someone like Doc didn't show that same ability. Say what you will, but when the excuse for failure is "Perkins was injured", then you're not maximizing your actual talent. Perkins is ten shades of shit. That's not the reason the Celtics failed to achieve more than they did.
Phil Jackson gets a lot of praise and acclaim, but name one ring he got as a coach with anything less than a talented roster. You don't win rings without talent. It's whether or not you can get all the pieces to fit and work together that makes the difference between a good coach and a great coach. Spo's gotten the guys to buy in. They now spout his Spoisms regularly. They have confidence in him because they've seen the success it brings. I think it's just plain ignorant to dismiss him as an okay or average coach. Especially when some of you turn and praise someone like Thibs who runs his teams into the ground, before getting pounded by Miami, or Phil who has won all his titles with a GOAT player or two on his teams. We get it, y'all don't like Miami. Waaaaah! It doesn't mean you can't be objective. PEACE.
EDIT: Damn! That ended up being a lot longer than I realized. LOL!
