Recap: Clippers 92, Bucks 86

Sloan was with the jazz 23 years. He wasn’t fired he retired. Sloan is an amazing hall of fame coach. The only thing about sloan was he had bad relationships with his players. Which might pose a problem but he’s 1000 times better then vdn

I’m not saying Jerry Sloan is not a Hall of Fame Coach. During the late 80′s and all throughout the 90′s, he was one of the best coaches in the entire NBA. This is fact. And yes, he is definitely better than VDN. I’m not disputing that.

But the 80′s and 90′s was a completely different era. It was an era where players had no choice but to respect their coach. Coaches had a lot of power back then. In fact, a coach could easily get a player traded.

Now, it’s the complete opposite. This is an era where players have more control over their organizations than the head coaches do. Players can easily get their head coaches fired nowadays. Look at what happened with Demarcus Cousins and Paul Westphal. The sad thing about it is, Demarcus is not even an established player in the NBA yet. The league has truly changed.

You are only proving my point when you say “The only thing about sloan was he had bad relationships with his players.”

Why do you think he had bad relationships with his players? It’s because he’s too damn old school!

In the NBA, 75% of a head coach’s job is to successfully manage and maintain all of the different personalities and egos of the players on a team. That’s basically what it comes down to. You can have all the basketball knowledge about X’s and O’s in the world, but if you are not efficient at managing personalities, you will not be a good coach.

Maintaining healthy relationships with all of your players is the absolute most important thing as a head coach in the NBA, especially in this era. Players admired Sloan back in his heyday, but not anymore.

Sloan is from the era where head coaches could practically embarrass their players in public by yelling at them on the bench or during timeouts. The players had no choice but to accept it. You can’t do that with these players nowadays. Players have more power than coaches now.

When I use the term “old school”, I’m not talking about X’s and O’s. Yes, Phil has been using the triangle offense and the same defensive sets since he first came into the league. You’re right, he didn’t change his coaching, he only changed his attitude.

But again, you’re only proving my point.

Like I said, the most important aspect of head coaching is managing the personalities and egos on a team. Phil Jackson was ahead of his time when it came to this. Phil Jackson may be old, but he definitely was not an old school coach.

Basketball coaches have been using the same offensive and defensive systems for decades. The game of basketball has not changed. All the X’s and O’s are still the same, and they always will be. Ever since the days of George Mikan and Bob Cousy, the systems have not changed that much.

But that’s my point. The systems don’t change, but the philosophies of how you manage a team do change. And Jerry Sloan is not up to date as how to manage the players of today.

Maybe that’s why they didn’t hire brain shaw cuz he wanted to use the trianle why else would you let an unexperince coach take the job over brain shaw. And right brain shaw is an assitant coach not head. That means the head coach is gonna run his style of offense and defense. Why would a head coach let his assistant coach run his offense? There’s a huge gap between power of a head coach and an assitant coach

That would be like if Phil Jackson hired Mike D’Antoni as an assistant coach. It’s completely pointless. A head coach is going to hire assistants who he feels will aide and assist him in implementing his own sets and schemes.

Frank Vogel likes for his Pacers to get up and down the floor on offense. They push the tempo whenever they can, but they execute well in the half-court. But most importantly, they get after you defensively.

Brian Shaw is the Associate Head Coach of the Indiana Pacers because he can aide and assist the team in playing the way they do.

You are completely wrong about there being a huge gap between the power of a head coach and an assistant coach.

The only difference between a head coach and his top assistants is that the head coach is the one who gets all the credit. He is the one standing during games yelling out plays, and he is the one who speaks at the podium on behalf of the team.

Behind the scenes however, the assistant coaches do as much, if not more work, than the head coach. Trust me, a head coach cannot survive without his assistants. Having an excellent group of assistant coaches is just as important as having a great head coach.

And if you look at every successful team in the NBA, I guarantee you they all have excellent coaching staffs. Not just a good head coach, but a good overall staff.

Trust me, Phil Jackson would not have won 11 championships without Tex Winter.

Trust me, Doc Rivers would not have led the Celtics to a championship without Tom Thibodeau.

Trust me, Greg Popovich would not have kept the Spurs in contention every year, year in and year out, without his rotating staff of some of the finest assistant coaches in basketball. A lot of his assistants have gone on to become successful head coaches in the league.