What do you think of all the rookie coaches this year?

[313]

I think, collectively, they did a fantastic job. For a while there, the only standout coaches in the league were Pop, PJ, RC, and Thibs. There were a few good ones, but for the most part, the other coaches in the league sucked.

There were nine rookie head coaches to start the season. Four made the playoffs, and Jeff Hornacek won 48 games. Of the four other coaches that didn't make the playoffs, I like what I saw from Brad Stevens, Brett Brown, and Mike Malone. There's not much you can do when your team is tanking, though. I didn't watch any Denver basketball this year, but I assume they were tanking as well, after the loss of Iggy and other injuries derailed any hope of playing at a competitive level.

Some of the accomplishments of these coaches include, Steve Clifford, coach of the Bobcats, turning that team into a top 10 defensive team. Jeff Hornacek maxing out the potential of every player on the Suns' roster and would have been a top 2 seed in the East. Jason Kidd had a rough start to the season, but found a lot of success playing Pierce at the four, and have had one of the best records in the league since the new year. Finally, Coach Bud who had that Hawks team in the 3rd seed before losing Horford. They tried to tank for Wiggins, but...lets just say the East is abysmal and leave it at that.

(Or maybe CIA Bud tanked to play the Pacers in the first round :pop: )

This new group of coaches look very promising, and hopefully we'll have some great basketball to watch for years to come, because of it. :toast

[benefactor]

Hopefully this new era of great white coaches will even out the black eyes of the position(Brooks, McHale) push the black coaches back to the hand clapping assistant role where they belong.

[313]

Hopefully this new era of great white coaches will even out the black eyes of the position(Brooks, McHale) push the black coaches back to the hand clapping assistant role where they belong.
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[benefactor]

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[Clipper Nation]

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^ Has won nothing of note as a head coach, overrated because his team tries so hard in the regular season in the East, runs his players into the ground so they're always short-handed, and his vaunted defense just got exposed by 80-year-old Andre Miller and Nene :lmao

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

^ Has won nothing of note as a head coach, overrated because his team tries so hard in the regular season in the East, runs his players into the ground so they're always short-handed, and his vaunted defense just got exposed by 80-year-old Andre Miller and Nene :lmao

What a shit take ^

[Clipper Nation]

What a shit take ^
Says the guy who tried to argue that LeBron = T-Mac :lmao

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Says the guy who tried to argue that LeBron = T-Mac :lmao

Says the guy who denied that Ray Allen saved LeBron's career :lmao

But yeah, shit on the coach that lost a former MVP, yet still carried a team who was trying to tank early in the year (trading Deng) to a 4 seed (and 3 seed most of the second half) with a 6-7 player rotation. What a joke. :lol

[jimbo]

Says the guy who denied that Ray Allen saved LeBron's career :lmao

But yeah, shit on the coach that lost a former MVP, yet still carried a team who was trying to tank early in the year (trading Deng) to a 4 seed (and 3 seed most of the second half) with a 6-7 player rotation. What a joke. :lol

:lol As if he was ever MVP caliber. Anyone with a clue knew that the defense was the reason that the Bulls were so good that year. We've reconfirmed that year after year since then. A gangbanger who can shoot 35% in the playoffs didn't turn them from garbage to the ECF. Thibs did. (But then again, that's their ceiling. It'll be similar when the Spurs lose Duncan)

Cliffs: :cat

[Clipper Nation]

Rose or no Rose (and lol at people still overrating that gangbanger fake-ass MVP), Thibs has made a living off trying really hard in the regular season, but his teams have done very little in the postseason when every other team is trying just as hard as they are.... he just got outcoached by Randy Wittman, one of the worst coaches in the league, in Game 1 :lol

I'm not saying he's a bad coach, just overhyped.... Doc won Coach of the Year before working with Thibs and has done just fine since Thibs went to Chicago....

[Malik Hairston]

They made the semis last year with Nate Robinson and Belinelli as their best offensive players:lol..

Thibs has only had significant talent for 1 season and they made the ECFs and lost to the best player in the world..he also turned Noah into a viable offensive option this season(which won't translate in the playoffs, because Noah is a role player, but that speaks on the lack of talent)..


As for the new coaches, Bud and Clifford stand out, they both run very solid systems that negate the lack of talent on the roster..impressive debuts, tbh..

Hornacek is overrated IMO, but we'll see how he does next year..

[Clipper Nation]

Budenholzer is a badass coach.... hardly any talent to work with, especially with Horford sidelined, but you wouldn't even know they were the 8th seed and under .500 in Game 1.... Bud will be one of the elite coaches in the league soon, if he isn't already....

Clifford is also a great coach, getting the Lolcats to play well above their heads defensively.... :lmao Fredo for letting him get away....

[Arnold Toht]

As long as Duncan doesn't ring.

[spurraider21]

Anal tit

[Splits]

As long as Duncan doesn't ring.