Posted by attaboy2005:
Posted by Bippity10:
I love getting a chance to mention my coaching career. Yay. I won 3 straight state title. The year before I won I was berated for not knowing basketball. I was an idiot for not knowing who to play and had horrible rotations. Everyone was a coach. When they asked me why I was so stupid I answered the same way everytime. "There is a method too my madness". When they asked me again I would say " I need to understand my team and learn to coach better".
The truth is that the coach's see the same things you see. They also see 5 million things that you don't see. LB knows who is and who is not producing. If he didn't we would be coaching and he would be talking on this website. The second year I won the title with a set rotation. The next two years I won with a set rotation. Everyone thought that I won because I finally started to listen to what they were saying. I "finally got it" The reality is that I won the next three years because of the lessons I tought the freshman and sophomores the first year.
LB has been here 18 games. He is considered the best or second best in the league. Who are you getting that is better. It's frustrating and I know we are all reactive and respond to every win and loss but give the guy the benefit of the doubt. Championships are a process. LB is not coaching so that you can brag about being the 8th seed. He is coaching and teaching for the future. Unfortunately that means the young guys will have a much shorter leash than the vets because they are our future and have to learn. In the meantime accept the inconsistency and the losses and give it time.
It's a very nice post, Bip!, but I will play Devil's Advocate, I think LB is over the hill, he has no idea what he is doing with this roster, and He doesn't really like most of the players since they really don't fit his style of player, so what you are seeing is a Top NBA Coach just going through the motions and not really caring too much about what anybody wants or how they feel. I really don't want to believe this, okay!.
I want this team to succeed as much as eveyone else on this forum, but you have to at least look at this team without the Rose colored glasses, this team is flawed, and this great NBA coach wants everyone to believe he has things under control when he says just the opposite to the newspapers, he hems and haws about the starting lineups, the players, and every thing else. You gotta admit it's scary to see what this team does, it goes one step forward, then two steps back, it can't find a rhythm or rhyme to what it's identity is or what direction they are going, we see flashes, but are told it's in progress, well, come on let's some real consistency, some real forward motion, that's all I am talking about, wouldn't you want that as well?.
The team is big time flawed. This is not larrys fault, its isiahs! Larry's game starts with his backcourt and we are unsettled there. Lots of talent, just not the right kind. Its to expensive to make wholesale moves from the summer thru Dec 15 so what does larry do, tinkers with the roster.
We have no perimeter shooting SF.
We Our power forwards are plenty, but they pretty much suck! So What does larry the loser do? Establishes the soft 8 pick as a legit ROY candidate and playing him 30 min?
Larry has not had his centers all season. they eiher hurt, or out of shape thus far.
His to most talented players are big time talent but basically street baller mentality in Craw and steph. Add to that a dunking midget who can't play point!
so what does he do? Play the vets. Once the vets see they suck, they don't have a problem playing rookies. Playing rookies is not a larry thing, but he is building. He is playing everyone in fact. vets are getting a chance, rookies are showing the stuff, and since the roster is wacked, why the hell not? got 6 kids 22 or under!
And we just two games from first place!
12/9/2005 5:31 AM