Posted by SeatsBlue:
Posted by crzymdups:
the bottom line is Larry is a traditionally horrible offensive coach. he's a defense first guy and has never coached good offensive teams. that's one of the reasons I thought he would be such a horrible fit here.
So Zeke acquired one dimensional players is that what you are saying? Are you saying there is only 1 coach who could coach this team? Weren't the Pistons better offensively under Flip but failed in terms of overall success vs Larry. If Larry is so bad offesnively why did he win on every level? Is Pop, Carlisle, Skiles, Dunleavy, Van Gundy, Riley bad coaches because they are cut from a defensive cloth?
I didn't say any of that. I said Larry is a horrible offensive coach. Find me a team of his that was great offensively and I'll take a look, but his Pistons jumped from being mediocre offensively to being the best offensive team in the league, his Pacers were bad offensively then Larry Bird came in and they got much better, his Sixers teams were awful offensively, the Knicks were one of the worst offensive teams in the league, despite having a roster loaded with firepower. I can pretty much guarantee you the Knicks will experience a huge jump in their offensive ranking, too.
That doesn't mean only one coach can coach this team - but it certainly means Larry Brown couldn't. His offense is too complicated with all the wrong things, he hates the 3p fg and almost every team in the playoffs last year except the Clippers, I believe, made more 3pfg than their opponent on average. He's bad on offense, and since he doesn't believe the zone defense is "right" and all the playoff teams used the zone, including the two finalists, I'd say that aspect of the game has passed him by too.
As for the Pistons doing better under Brown - that's mainly due to whether Dwyane Wade was healthy or not, and before Wade the Nets.