TripleThreat wrote:HofstraBBall wrote:Think Fiz is showing why he was picked to lead this team. He can care less about ONE win or what the fans want. He has laser focusd on developing the culture and teaching these young players. Could care less about short term success. Has his eye on only long term goals. Something all claimed is what was needed and wanted around here. If no one can see that the reason we looked so good the first three quarters is because of what he is preaching, your not paying attention. Just look at how well the new first unit played and how much more energy the players that were moved to second unit had. Look at how he finally put Frank at the PG spot, after some thought starting him at 3 was a long term move. These are all parts of a bigger plan. All messages that will pay dividends when it counts. Guy is teaching. Fiz knows what he is doing.
To be fair to Hornacek and Fisher, Fizdale was not saddled with Melo and Phil Jackson. He's got a roster full of rookies, young guys and guys playing for their next contract. He's got a situation where Dolan is hands off and a GM on the team actually trained for the job.
If you reversed the timeline with Fizdale with Fisher or Hornacek, I don't think you'd see too much difference. Talent trumps all in the NBA.
Teams do better with more talent/fewer *******s. If anything, what helped Fizdale is his wife has actual status ( not just some random jump off ) and a career. She was smart enough to befriend the wives of critical people in Miami ( Wade and LBJ's better halves) and this put Fizdale into their social circle and made everything easier for him to deal with those star players.
This is not to say Fizdale is a bad coach.
It's just it's time to be fair to both Fisher and Hornacek here. If you put Fizdae into either of those situations, people here wouldn't be talking so glowingly.
Did you just say "to be fair to... Fisher"??? Derek Fisher??? Don't you have anything in the mirror that addresses "don't be stupid enough to bone some deranged ex-teammate's estranged wife publicly while coaching in the NBA"? Derek Fisher's main problem was being saddled with Derek Fisher. Although working with what turned out to be the league's almost worst, ridiculously overpaid rookie executive is a fair mention, although that is how one gets to be a booby prize in the Steve Kerr sweepstakes to begin with.
Fizdale has yoots up the wazoo, and everyone loves yoots. They're fresh and shiny. They scream potential and playing into the common vibe of those on here who dream of "ball the right way" "make others around you better" "both ends of the court" "I remember jacking off into my oatmeal watching DLee and Gallo playing together..." blah blah blah. It's a moot point, anyway. Phil was never going to hire anyone the likes of Fizdale anyway. JH was hired to fail.
I'm a Yankee fan. Almost everyone loves homegrown stories. Everyone loves Jeter/Judge. Nobody loves ARod/Giancarlo.