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Re: Watching the Nets

At 07:42 PM 7/10/2003 -0400, Douglas342@xxxxxxx wrote: 
    KC Jones did much the same thing during the years of the Big Three, yet
he was known as a good coach.

Not quite, although it's a fair point. He was known as a good coach **for that specific team**. KC was not a very successful coach in subsequent jobs. And he still actually participated in the huddles. He just didn't have an ego that demanded everyone bow down to him as The Man and obey his every word.

  Some are X and O guys, others aren't.  For
example, doesn't Tex Winter choreograph much of the Laker offense?

Right and Harter probably does the Cs defense. I'm not objecting to using assistants -else why have them- or saying everyone has to be an X and O guy or even that X and O guys make the best head coaches (think Jimmy Rodgers). Simply agreeing with another post saying he wasn't a very good game coach, by noting how little he seemed to be involved during the game.
Kim


In a message dated 7/10/2003 9:58:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Dead on. One of the things I really noticed at Nets games the past couple
> of years was how Byron was pretty much never part of the huddle at time
> outs etc during the game. Always just his assistants working with the
> players, while Byron stalked around showing off his suit and chatting to
> the refs or people at the scorers' table. Which seems a step overboard on
> the delegation thing for a serious coach...