49^2, I had to edit this because it was a pretty good post, but with no line breaks it's unbearable!!!
Posted by 4949:Posted by TMS:
the real question is would you rather have a coach like LB & a roster that could succeed under him, or a roster like we have now & a coach they'll enjoy playing for... i guess the easier route was to choose the latter, but easier isn't always necessarily the better choice.
I am a Brown supporter, always was. So with that, i'd like to add, it depends on whether the team could have played better, under a more relaxed situation.
If they had a coach that just let them run, maybe it would have been a different story. Instead, this team didn't seem to be able to respond to the Brown discipline. So we'll see if Zeke let's them play loser. If so, we may get a lot more wins around this time.
The down side, if Nate is allowed to 'showboat' then it could have a negative affect on this team. It leaves open doors, that are vulnerable to different types of media in other cities.
One for sure, that I know of is Chicago. They are experts at expoiting the psychology of a player and it's local fans, who buy into the whole 'hype' thing. They did it when Jordan was there, still trying to do it today and will do it in the future.
If you don't think someting like that doesn't count, then you have a few things to learn. A lot of people don't take this knid of thing into consideration when considering the things that go into a player, a game, a season, a career. ATTITUDE is more important nowadays, then it has ever been.
Disciplin is going out the window, it's true. So when you view the negative and positive aspects of the NBA today, you have to take those kinds of things into consideration, to be able to evaluate the kind of player, team you are trying to convey to the fans.
I can tell you two things in this thought.
One, you can have a team that conducts itself professionally, who plays good hard defense and plays a good fundamental game, a focused game, not letting anyone into your psychology or you can have a showboating team that will try to get into peoples faces, do the war of words and try to win on that alone.
I prefer the professional aspect, because no one can attack it, when you win. What is my proof? The Magic Johnson Lakers, with Kareem and Worthy, a hard working, talanted, gifted Pat Riley disciplined group that went out to play good fundamental basketball, who won five championships. The same could be said of the Bird Celtics, who won three during those wars. The Houston Rockets, with Hakeem and company, who went out and played a good solid game, who won two championships. The San Antonio Spurs with Tim Duncan and company, who played a good solid game that they won with. The Ben Wallace Pistons could be another hard playing defensive team that finally won one.
Now for the others, The Bulls, of course they had Jordan and with that they could afford to have an attitude. Just ask Pippen? The Bad Boys of Detroit, had all kinds of attitude problems and basically had an outstanding guard, and terrific rebounder in Rodman and a very good 'outside' shooting center who took two championships.
So those were two cases that could get away with it.
Another team, the Shaq - Kobe Lakers could get away with it also. Kobe just so happened to be talanted enough to have an attitude and win with Shaq and company, but look what the attitude did to the team. Shaq left and we see who the real leader of the team was now, don't we? So my point is, you can win with a good solid team, that runs a good hard nosed routine that could get you back into contention or you can have all the attitude you would want, but you better have a Zeke-Rodman type group or a Jordan - Pippen type group or a Shaq - Kobe type group if you want to win it all.
So far, we have a chance to have a solid, well fundamentally sound team here that could eventually go knocking on the door again. If you choose to have the atttitude team, then you better have a few 'real' superstars to go along with it.
Otherwise this team will be writing it's character now for years to come.
all kool aid all the time.
(all, that's an inside joke)