Coaches

[jemagee]

Jordan was supposedly running a versioin of the Princeton offence for the Bullets.  Does anyone think that type of offense could be a auccess for the Sixers?  They don't exactly have the greatest passing bigmen, but they do have some potentially good cutters.

Well, Brand isn't half bad and Speights has seemed pretty good in the passing, i'll admit that Sam and Evans can't pass very well - but if they aren't seeing the floor does it matter?

[tk76-]

Brand is an O.K. passer from the high post, so that should work.  I get the sense that Speights could become a good passer- he seems to have a good feel for the game and makes quick decisions.

Sam and Evans would have to be left back on defense.  The Bullets integrated Haywood, but I doubt he tried to force in bad passes the way the Scarecorw and Rodeo Clown do.  If they only knew they were bad passers it wouldn't be so bad.

[tk76-]

Watching the Cavs game, yet again the team goes away from the hot hand.  Miller and Iguodala were carrying the team- but then the team decides to try and get Brand going in the third and completely went away from Miller and Iguodala.

It reminded me a lot of theose early games where Thad would start hot and then be relegated to the bench or a marginal role standing in the corner.  I understand they want to keep everyone involved, but does Mo actually intentionally go away from a player when they are hot?

I'm trying to think of a worse offensive coach than Mo, and LB is the only guy who is even nearly as bad- but at least he would ride AI when he was hot.  I guess if LB is a poor offensive coach, and Mo learned under him, its not surprising Mo can't get this team to play any semblance of offense.

Makes me wonder if the team would not have completely imploded under Mo before the AI trade if they had a coach who could install an offense.  I realize that CWebb was a shell, but you'd think with AI, Iguodala and Webber they could have been a good offensive team.

Before this year I though Mo was a mediocre coach.  But the more I watch Mo coach, the more I wonder if he has any clue.

[jemagee]

Watching the Cavs game, yet again the team goes away from the hot hand.  Miller and Iguodala were carrying the team- but then the team decides to try and get Brand going in the third and completely went away from Miller and Iguodala.

I missed the game but like i said in the game thread, sixers went from close to FG% of 50 to almost 40 in one quarter - would that be because Brand was sucking up the court?

I'm trying to think of a worse offensive coach than Mo, and LB is the only guy who is even nearly as bad

WHo did mo serve as an assistant under again?

[Derek Bodner]

People must be completely forgetting about JVG.

LB's underrated as an offensive coach.  He's not nearly as bad as people made him out.  They take what he was here and label him as that for his entire career.  He didn't stifle the 3 in Indy, and he didn't have a problem running the offense through a player (Manning in the clips).  He was actually fairly adaptable offensively.  That's one of the reason he won at so many different locations.

[tk76-]

JVG may have no regard for offense, but at least he will ride a hot hand and get his best offensive players the ball.

I'm sure I'm being a bit unfair, but Mo appears to willfully go away from favorable match-ups and intentionally take the ball from a player who is hot in order to better involve a player who is cold.

And that's not even taking into account his "no plays for Thad" plan, that is now turning into no playing time for Thad (until the 4th when the team was down by 19.)

[jemagee]

I don't forget about JVG, he just never coached the sixers (and god willing never will)

[Skates]

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[tk76-]

So I guess we have to hope that being a top European women's league coach 20 years ago translates well to coaching in the NBA 

Sometimes you just have to believe.

[jemagee]

So I guess we have to hope that being a top European women's league coach 20 years ago translates well to coaching in the NBA 

Sometimes you just have to believe.

Well, I don't think that's the plan

But my over on 'coaches firesd' this year after the first 3 was 6, so i need one more

[Skates]

Memphis is temporarily playing well, once they go into a spin the '82-'83 championship team will have another unemployed member once Iavaroni gets canned.  Your number looks eminently achievable.  Atlanta is always another possibility as the players down there will throw Woodson under the bus (again) at the first possible opportunity.

[jemagee]

I still have this hope that Lebron James will get D'anotni fired - this year - cause I think it would be awesome and cause David Stern to just hunt down dolan and assasinate him

[tk76-]

Atlanta is always another possibility as the players down there will throw Woodson under the bus (again) at the first possible opportunity.

He's still coaching there?  Talk about dead man walking.

[jemagee]

As long as they are playing well he'll keep his job

[Skates]

As long as they are playing well he'll keep his job

And once they aren't, he won't.  The Atlanta owners are cheap as well, not likely that they want to pay a guy to not coach.