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I think yes, but ultimately he won't have pull without the support of Godfather Riles.
No
No, tbh. He has Lebron and a group of players that can ball.
no. Possibly the worst coach to repeat, ever. He should be fired ala that Montreal Canadiens coach who won the cup in the 70's.
He coached a terrible series, tbh..
It took him until game 6 to realize Danny Green can't dribble and Gary Neal doesn't play defense..
He only began playing Mike Miller when the Heat were desperate against Indiana..
He's KC Jones of the 2010s, tbh..
LOL I remember when Heinsohn used to compare Jones to Riley on those CBS broadcasts. Ignorant fat ing Boston blowhard.He coached a terrible series, tbh
It took him until game 6 to realize Danny Green can't dribble and Gary Neal doesn't play defense..
He only began playing Mike Miller when the Heat were desperate against Indiana..
He's KC Jones of the 2010s, tbh..
by doing nothing, i have him ahead of pop who did everything in his bag of tricks outcoaching himself instead going with his best lineup for the night that showed up....
He coached a terrible series, tbh
It took him until game 6 to realize Danny Green can't dribble and Gary Neal doesn't play defense..
He only began playing Mike Miller when the Heat were desperate against Indiana..
He's KC Jones of the 2010s, tbh..
btw Spoelstra looked like a cokehead in some of those press conferences.
Pop outcoaches himself, tbh..
Against a like Spoelstra, it makes more sense to play checkers rather than chess, tbh..
Outcoaching Popovich isn't really an accomplishment anymore after the Avery Johnson embarrassment in 2006.
will be the most overrated coach, ever. Lebron has one of the highest IQs of all time when it comes to basketball, he leads the team by himself and he makes/calls the plays by himself. Phili just keeps the F away and makes the correct subs. Outside of that, he's done nothing. I could put the whole 2011 collapse on him because he couldn't adjust vs Mavs, he should have put Wade as the main ballhandler and let Lebron play off the ball, Wade was obviously more effective and needed more touches and they would have won if they had Wade make the plays, as he was harder to stop.
Also, almost cost him the series by not figuring Green out until Game 6, you could have done that a lot earlier and finished it in 5/6.
Spurs IMO got so far because of Pop, not just his in-game coaching but the development of Green and Neal. However, he made some bad decisions at the end of Games 6 and 7, where he let the Heat win without a single answer. He benched Parker and had Manu/Timmy beat em, that was a baaaad idea, imo even a fatigued/injured Parker would have at least gotten to the line instead of turning it over or bricking it 2 ft from the rim.
I don't think he's as bad as people claim, but he did really up the Finals with his stupid rotations....
Spoelstra is really schizophrenic when it comes to his sets on offense and his rotations which really takes his players out of rhythm examples being in Game 3 of the ECF Lebron dominates Indiana with sets that put him in the post and high post then in Game 4 they ran sets that put Lebron in either position 12-14 times the whole game. Instead opting for isos with Lebron/Wade and Bosh/others just spotting up with poor spacing. This along with seemingly random rotations that see players like Birdman and Battier barely play/DNP for no apparent reason. This situation is similar to OKC's with Brooks relying on Westbrook/Durant isos and players like Collison disappearing on the bench.
Spoelstra will be overrated because of the success brought in by his players talent, which a similar scenario will/has played out in OKC with Durant and Westbrook's talent overcoming Brooks' head being stuck up his own ass.
Heat would've won the series in 5 if he had any brain under his skull. dude's coaching was ty enough and he was only bailed out by Allen's fluke 3 and Bron going god mode.
TBH
Surround Lebron with shooters and you are good to go
Even D'Antoni can do it
He's elite. With an unbalanced roster made the finals, then two 'ships.
LeBron took Mike Brown to the finals.
The problem was to pass trough the C's big 4, from the 07-08 season.
no Pop did more for the heat than spo did.
No. Pop was coasting, tbh.
Average coach coaching superior talent. The best thing I am guessing Spoelstra does is get out of way of LeBron and Wade when it comes to offense. But to me, that's not superior coaching. That's just knowing when you have the better talent. I think Doc Rivers did that well when he got KG and Ray Allen. But I don't think that makes either a good or great coach.
In basketball, probably more so than in any other American team sport, talent almost always trumps coaching.
OMFG, my sentiments exactly! He most likely is, duh...
btw Spoelstra looked like a cokehead in some of those press conferences.
Let's revisit this... Four straight finals trips for Miami, is he at least an elite coach now?
i think most will say yes, miami/lebron fans will say no
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