I definitely disagree that "any coach could've "taught" (it's not even something you teach, as if players don't know what a motion offense is....) a motion offense". Because not a lot of coaches can design the plays around it, utilize them effectively, get the personnel to buy in, motivate them into performing at a consistently high level (ESPECIALLY after '13 and that back-breaking, which you again ignored), and have such a fluid and high-level playing on both ends of the court. Tell me, unequivocally: could Luke Walton have been behind '14, given the same group of players? Walton definitely knows what a motion offense is, so it shouldn't be a problem, right?
Additionally, you're just plain missing a big part of what makes Pop great: his adaptiveness. He coached the Twin Towers to a ring, then drew up entirely new perimeter-heavy offenses to favor Manu and Tony, then switched it up to a motion offense to make best use of his personnel, in each instance managing to win it all. Most coaches are entirely fixated on a single style (cough, Phil Jackson) and can't really adapt out of it - or worse, they can't even get one coaching style that's championship-caliber. But I guess Luke Walton could coach the Twin Towers to a ring, easy-peasy, huh?
Do tell, how old are you? I'm confident you're above 35 and maybe even 40. Not to disrespect the rest of the ST forum, but that's old, tbh.
A load of bull here. Coaches have the ability to make the best use of their personnel, or not - they're not at the "mercy" of their personnel any more than the personnel is at the coach's mercy. Taking Timmy out for that one rebound, for example, was making bad use of the personnel: thankfully a rare blemish in an otherwise great coaching career. Also, hard to tell how Pop fares without HoF talent, when he's always had one or the other up until '17-'18, when the Spurs were/are actively rebuilding. Hard to have elite defense with that personnel.
at the high school mindset thing. Seriously, dude, you're no younger than 40, you just can't be. Lame attempt at an insult, I liked the other ones better. Anyways, there is a dissonance there: how can players "either be motivated, or not" when they're highly paid professionals? Shouldn't they always be motivated, since it's their job? No, they aren't, and a good coach can absolutely motivate a team. Question: have you ever played organized basketball? There's a lot more to coaching than "cliches and pla udes"
. Maybe you haven't ever been in a locker room to know that, though, which would be understandable I guess...
thinking "stage presence and being able to command a room" separates Spolestra from Walton
and I can already hear you typing "more bad reading comprehension", when it's you who didn't answer my question in the first place. Don't beat around the bush: Can you tell me explicitly what coaching actually
does or actually affects? Because seriously, teams are paying millions of dollars to these guys. There's gotta be
something other than
commanding a room
and lmao at job security. Spo got that job security
by being a great coach....