Anji wrote:THis team don't need any Vets. They need coach, guy like Skiles.............. he had very little vets with those young bulls and Bucks. They need a guy like Nate McMillan(?) in Portland, he got those young players to just play every year. And even though you need to be a 45 win team to make the playoffs out west, he's built that 20somthing team up to that point.Are coach has enough to win 40 games or a 8th seed, he better do it!!!!
I might agree without hesitation if I had not been a HS coach for so many years. Team leaders, even at the professional level are important-sometimes more important if you have some prima donnas on your team. Do not discount the value of a guy who can be a coach on the court or keep people in line in the locker room. Do you really think that Magic, Jordan, Bird, etc. did not play a role in managing the egos of certain players.
MDA might just be a coach who needs a strong leader- even if it means that this player leader is a guy who will go to a see him in private and try to talk to him about issues that may be keeping the team from performing to their abilities, both individually and collectively.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities- C.N. Bovee
