Re: OB - Why Do People Call Him an Excellent Coach?

[Sean <sgiovanello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not saying he is a bad coach.  With Antoine and PP, this team was a 
lock to make the playoffs and with the right matchups (no nets) to have 
a 50 50 chance of making the finals.  That being said, I never thought 
he was a great coach - just a good one.  I hated the offense he ran, but 
accepted it because we were winning.  This year, he says he did not want 
to run that offense - it was all Evil Antoine.   Yet, when he goes out 
to run they cant with any consistency or success.  They are playing the 
same style ball as last year 70% of the time, except with Mike James 
taking Antoines three (or at least a percent of them).

pmaurice wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sean" <sgiovanello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > Listening to media types, it seems everyone thinks OB is an excellent
> > coach.  Ordway stands by it.  Tanguay is saying not on the post game.
> > Ainge thinks it.  On and on, I keep hearing this.  Where does this come
> > from?
> >    
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> Remember the year he was given a mediocre point guard, a back-up forward /
> bruiser who's had a mediocre career, and a career back-up undersized
> shooting guard with a decent outside shot, to go along with Walker and
> Pierce? He coached them to the ECF. How about the year he had no point
> guard, a center with a chronic knee injury, and no forward / bruiser. He got
> them past a better team in the first round. He can coach. His teams have
> overachieved given the talent on the floor.
>
> Let's just keep saying to ourselves, "addition by subtraction.  It'll be all
> right in three to five years."
>
> Paul M.