My problem with this is it sells the players short by catering to their weaknesses and underestimating their capacity to evolve. Every coach Ewing ever had tried to get him to pass better out of the post, till his last days in the league. But less should be asked of Eddy Curry? Every other coach before brown also asked Billips to check his shot selection, as did Larry, but less should be asked of Steph?
Come on now. Catering to their weaknesses? You simply do not emphasize weaknesses as a coach, rule number 1. You maximize strengths.
We should not ask the same from Curry as from Ewing. Just more than he has given thus far. To ask for the same is absurd. We should ask for less until he is in the arena where we can ask for more. And while they did try to make Ewing pass out of the post, no one ever asked him to stop doing what he did best...shoot..even though everyone wished he played around the basket more.
Brown's "system" is simple and fundamental. He doesn't have a playbook like a telephone book, he's not tricky with the defense, he just wants guys to move the ball for high percentage possessions and to play passionate defense. That's it. Fundamental basketball.
There was a system this year? I certainly did not see one. And seriously, where do you get your information about Brown's playbook? All the rest of what you described is what every coach asks for.
It's amazing, really, that Brown came here with a reputation as a guy who wins EVERYWHERE, even in the low days of the Clippers and NJ, but now he's talked about as a guy who's so bad he'll never win anywhere. Not necessarily by you, newyorknewyork, but by some here.
Not the point. The point is he has done terribly thus far, things look bad for the future, and right now he should have been the solution, but he is definitely a big, new part of the problem.
And things change. Great coaches get old too. Even great coaches have spectacular failures. LB's past success is no guarantee of anything, and it certainly does not negate observances of LB's ineptitude this year.
Now if some people want to argue that our players were justified in quitting on him that's a separate argument, but to suggest his "playing the right way" can't work here, in spite of success at every other stop over 30 years, only proves how fundamentally flawed this team is. Throwing away the playbook and letting Steph have at it with "no set plays", and letting Eddy offensive-foul-out with reckless abandon really wasn't going to mask all of that.
It's as if only LB's system whatever it is, is the "right way". The right way is different for each team. Maybe LB needs to learn that.
Your observance of LB"s record ignores his curve where his teams peak then eventually turn on him and have increasingly worse performances. Everywhere he's been that has happened, except Kansas, and that is because he got out of Dodge.
oohah
[Edited by - oohah on 05-12-2006 04:11 AM]
5/11/2006 3:52 PM
