Is Erik Spoelstra really a good coach?
By Mdupuy1
@Mdupuy1 (10)
United States
April 23, 2013 7:21pm CST
I'm asking this question because it seems like he's more lucky to be coaching Lebron James than anything else. The NBA gave Mike Brown coach of the year when he had Lebron in his roster. Now people are corning Erik Spoelstra as a potential candidate for Coach of the year and I don't really see what he's good at. I feel like I can coach a team if I had Lebron James on it.
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@jambi462 (4576)
• United States
26 Apr 13
Yeah I don't think that Mike Brown or Erik Spoelstra are good coaches. I would say that Mike Brown is definitely a better coach than Spoelstra because the Cavaliers back in the day really only had Lebron on their team. Spoelstra has Lebron, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh at his disposal. Now there team also has other great players like Rashard Lewis and Ray Allen.
I don't think that Erik Spoelstra is a good coach and I think that pretty much anyone that knows even a little bit about basketball could be good coach if they had players like the Miami Heat had.
@Mdupuy1 (10)
• United States
26 Apr 13
Thank you for adding to my point jambi426, Mike Brown was on the verge of doing the same thing with a younger Lebron who had NO TEAM AROUND HIM. It makes sense because Mike Brown is credited with defensive strategies that aren't common in the NBA; he was able to stop most teams enough from scoring so that Lebron could dominate. Spoelstra has one of the easiest jobs in the planted IMO. Even I can tell 3 Olympic Basketball Players to win me a National Championship!
@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
25 Apr 13
He has the good fortune of coaching a team with some of the best talent available. In his favour you have to admit that he hasn't screwed them up. He has some qualities that work with this team whether he could do well with a different team is a matter of debate. Somehow I doubt it. What I do like about him is that he has no trouble letting the players get the credit. I don't think our dissing him as an NBA coach would bother him in the least.
@Mdupuy1 (10)
• United States
26 Apr 13
That is true; you can look at D'Antoni in Los Angeles and know that having star players doesn't guarantee absolute success. I wasn't dissing him I just don't see anything he implements better than other coaches who get the same recognition. I suppose he is better than some at managing players. I just don't see anything special in the way he coaches. Popovich, Doc Rivers, Tom Tibado, these are all coaches I see implement revolutionary coaching tactics.
