The battle of Stotts vs Dame. Dame tried his damndest to win but Stotts did just enough to eek out the win for the opposing team.
I have to admit, stotts even surprised me with how idiotic a coach he can be with that performance in the last 5 seconds.
Anyone who still thinks Stotts is a good coach at this point is either not watching the games or doesn't know much about hoops.
These types of comments are so great because when the next coach doesn't get us past the WCF, our offensive rating doesn't make a drastic uptick from our rating with Dame, CJ, Norm, Roco, Nurk, we'll be able to attribute it to these two undefinable things not happening.
So am I understanding you right, youre ok with keeping Stotts around and continuing with first round exits instead of at least attempting a change whether it ends up being good or bad?
My post was a 3 word question: "define good coach". Never said a positive or negative word about Stotts. How would you define a good coach?
Hahahaha... well done! I'd like this post twice if they'd let me! And I thought @EGame was the best at reading into posts, but you actually exposed what I was really saying!
There are a lot of ways to define a good coach. One who can get their team to play like an actual team and create a lot of ball movement to find wide open shooters, you know have an offensive playbook. One who can change the landscape of a team whom was previously bad but with solid fundamentals can turn the team around, think Knicks. One who can identify that in a late game situation up by 1 and clearly are going to get fouled, you should do everything you can to get the ball in your superstars hands. One who has even an inclination of what a defensive scheme is. There are a lot of things, Stotts literally has nothing. He has Dame and CJ and without Dame heroics most of the time, this guy would be a perennial loser. Superstars tend to make coaches who are shit look better than they are. Lebron did it for years in Cleveland.
No offense, but there are so many issues with this post I don't know if I should address the non-definable things or the massive assumptions that are not backed up with any facts (not opinions). Like you, I do hope we are able to find a coach that can take a roster with one all-star under 6'6" to the NBA Finals. That coach would be the first in the NBA to pull off such an accomplishment in 30 years. I do not think Stotts is good enough to do something no coach has done decades.
I think the first thing that defines a good coach is actually something that they don't do. They don't cost their team games. I think a good coach motivates their players both with encouragement and accountability. A good coach tells their players what they're doing wrong and what they need to do to correct it. A good coach makes in game adjustments both to what players are doing individually and what the team is doing as a whole on both ends. A good coach also doesn't deflect blame. In that way and others a good coach leads by example. Finally I think a good coach knows their Xs and Os. So they're able to draw up plays and schemes in a way their players can understand and execute both in practices and especially in games.
