The poll question is: If an NBA Coach wins more games than he loses in the regular season in most years, but he loses in the playoffs most years, sometimes badly losing in the playoffs, should he be allowed to coach an NBA team for as long as he wants, or should he be fired before his career runs out, due to not being able to win in the playoffs? NBA owners seem to vote differently on this to some degree. Some of them insist on playoff winning and others of them don't. How do you vote?
I would fire the coach, but I can understand why someone wouldn't. Obviously it depends upon how good the team is. For example if you were clearly the worst team in the NBA on paper, but you designed a brand of offensive basketball that would make you win a hell of a lot of regular season games, but not playoffs due to defensive intensity, I might keep the coach because he is making the team play above themselves in the regular season. The Cavs could be an interesting team for this in the medium to long term future; if they make the Finals this season, that would be the second trip under Coach Brown. If they lose this year and maybe next year too, that's three missed opportunities. However, the first Finals appearance was really based on LeBron James being superhuman, so it is unfair to fire a coach because they couldn't beat a far superior team in the Finals. I think for teams at the top, the playoffs are pretty much everything, and that's how the coaches should be judged, and for team's nearer the bottom the regular season should be taken more into account.
10 years of making the playoffs and losing is a long time. If he had failed for 3, 4, even 5 years, fine. But regular season success means nothing if you can't translate it into playoff wins for a DECADE.
