Sauru wrote:air gordon wrote:Sauru wrote:i have no issues with lue other than he is not a championship level coach. sadly that seems to be exactly what lebron wants.
so you could say the same then about all of the East? lue is due some credit for coaching the team that won the finals against the best team ever to not win a finals. or was it really kerr's fault??
i honestly don't know what makes a "good" coach anyway. player talent has to play a big role and as well as the staff he surrounds himself with. but after that what else? is lue a good coach because GSW couldn't counter the irving/lebron pick and roll? or getting mahimi or whatever slow big to switch on lebron? or maybe he's a bad coach because in last year's finals, he said screw it and unsuccessfully tried to outscore the Warriors in the elimination game?
what you are saying is coaching has no effect on the game and its 100% on the players?
Coaching matters for many reasons. Developing your players (being the right influence), making sure your players are disciplined during practice, running and come up with the appropriate plays in practice, and making sure they are called and executed in games, calling timeouts at appropriate times in order to attempt to stop a run, or to just gather the troops, or for many different situational reasons, putting the right players on the floor at the right times depending on who the other team has out on the floor, motivating your players, disciplining your players at the right time during the game (yanking them if needed), etc etc.
Coaching makes a huge difference. Look at what coach Pop has done with his Spurs team this year without Leonard and Parker. They are 10-6, you think any coach would have that team at 10-6?
Brad Stevens connects with his players, he is well known for being a good situational coach, good with xs and os, etc.
It absolutely matters.