Again conflating credit with contract, when that's clearly not what I was talking about.
No, you haven't. You've decided because either in your opinion or the one the national media foisted upon you at the time, that those were examples of coaching "making a difference" (while mostly speaking in generalities), but you can't prove anything.
In general, not "in the system". Role players with positional size who can shoot and defend were always valuable, it was just rare to see perimeter players with such limited ball skills in relatively significant roles.
Of course they did. Man, you're dense and naive. You really don't seem to understand how this song and dance works. The big three receive little credit relative to comparable situations, because it's all about the "culture" and "system" here.
We are. We're talking about keeping up with modern practice's. Everyone is looking for every little edge they can find, real or perceived.
But again, the notion that certain ones know something others don't x's and o's wise, is absurd, as is that veteran or high IQ players require them.