Do you think that basketball...has been solved?Pundits would claim that "the game is simple"...just follow the fundamentals, and winning will transpire. Addi...
Kinda disagree with this idea. The real problem is that coaching is hard to evaluate from people who don’t have a coaching background themselves (and even then takes an absurd amount of time). Which makes it hard for GMs to really know how good a coach is, leading to coaching ability often being conflated with just results, or at least results relative to expectations of the roster. It also makes it easier to pin the failings of the team on the coach since the fanbase doesn’t know wtf they’re talking about and usually gravitate towards blaming the coaches for all their issues.
Yes, as he mentions, 3/4 coaches to win a title between 2019 and 2022 were fired by the end of the 2023 season, but he doesn’t address the fact that the fanbases and media were super critical of those coaches before their firing. He even implies that them winning a title somehow proves that they are/were top tier coaches, but that’s judging based on results too.
I don’t think there’s an issue of coaches not being allowed to coach and that’s why there’s less ball movement heavy offenses in the NBA. I think coaches are given all the leeway they need to implement the system of their choosing, and there’s less ball movement simply because there’s a bigger difference between the skill level of the guys at the top of the NBA and the average NBA player than there is in Europe. The stars in the NBA are just more efficient at isolating, posting up or spamming PnR than the top European guys, in part due to better spacing with the longer 3pt line, more favorable rules etc…
Should there be better ways to evaluate coaching? Yes.
Would a trend of longer commitment to an head coach lead to better systems and more efficient offenses ? Don’t think so.
Kinda disagree with this idea. The real problem is that coaching is hard to evaluate from people who don’t have a coaching background themselves (and even then takes an absurd amount of time). Which makes it hard for GMs to really know how good a coach is, leading to coaching ability often being conflated with just results, or at least results relative to expectations of the roster. It also makes it easier to pin the failings of the team on the coach since the fanbase doesn’t know wtf they’re talking about and usually gravitate towards blaming the coaches for all their issues.
Yes, as he mentions, 3/4 coaches to win a title between 2019 and 2022 were fired by the end of the 2023 season, but he doesn’t address the fact that the fanbases and media were super critical of those coaches before their firing. He even implies that them winning a title somehow proves that they are/were top tier coaches, but that’s judging based on results too.
I don’t think there’s an issue of coaches not being allowed to coach and that’s why there’s less ball movement heavy offenses in the NBA. I think coaches are given all the leeway they need to implement the system of their choosing, and there’s less ball movement simply because there’s a bigger difference between the skill level of the guys at the top of the NBA and the average NBA player than there is in Europe. The stars in the NBA are just more efficient at isolating, posting up or spamming PnR than the top European guys, in part due to better spacing with the longer 3pt line, more favorable rules etc…
Should there be better ways to evaluate coaching? Yes.
Would a trend of longer commitment to an head coach lead to better systems and more efficient offenses ? Don’t think so.