Heat3 wrote:MiamiLoyal926 wrote:Heat3 wrote:
I don’t know if that is the case but if it is then Spo is the problem and he needs to go. Heat can’t keep chasing mediocrity because he can’t improve as a coach and develop young players with patience and let them go through their growing pains. He asks others to sacrifice but is he willing to sacrifice some meaningless wins to do what is best for the team? I feel I’ve seen this too many times with him.
This team doesn’t need a coach that is only thinking of now rather than the future. Even Riley as coach knew when it was time to blow it up and did so twice after Zo and after Shaq. But he gives Spo leeway to coach as he sees fit. We’ve seen over the years it is at odds with how the team is built.
He’s been around a long time and is probably too old and stubborn to go through with the best process for this. He might be better off like Doc Rivers now and jump from team to team to coach veteran playoff teams.
If you are raising an entitled child who does not put in the work and just expects to be rewarded, what do you do? Especially if what they do produce and contribute to the household is half-a**ed?
I don’t know about you, but if my son is just collecting without giving, I am putting him through the wringer. Especially if I know he can give me more, but he is not and is coming in each day with an entitlement. A coach is not very different than a parent, especially when dealing with young drafted players. Those aren’t men yet, and you are their first real world experience after they left school… someone needs to give them the lessons on how to be an adult in an adult world. How to be a professional in a professional world.
Maybe it’s just me… but I would not raise an entitled child by giving them more of what they feel entitled to. They will need to work for it and earn it.
I don’t like this analogy. The players aren’t children and Spo isn’t their parent. They are professionals and colleagues. There are expectations from BOTH. It shouldn’t just be one sided. There is a lot to be desired from Spo when it comes to developing the drafted players. Even some guys like Whiteside and Duncan that the Heat dumped a lot of money into. As soon as they got paid they found themselves in Spo’s dog house. We’ll see how it progresses with the newer guys. Jaime is already on the same path. This sort of thing happens way to often here for it just be on the players.
Have you ever had to manage green employees straight out of college? Of course you would like for them to be pros and solid coworkers out the gate, but at the end of the day, they still lack real world experience and will have growing pains. That is why you usually hire them to entry level roles, do not give them a lot of responsibility at first, and as they prove themselves and rise to the occasion, you begin to expand their role.
That is also why many organizations assign mentors and colleagues to help onboard and get these entry level employees acclimated. When they don’t, management creates a prescriptive plan for areas of improvement. Why should that be any different in the NBA? Especially when you have players inking multi year contracts and thus the org has no choice but to see the player through their entire contract.
As such, you can take a nurturing approach like a parent or mentor/leader, or take a punitive approach like a boss. Either way, when a player does. Or have it in them to do it themselves, then you need to employ tactics and measures to nudge players in the right direction and/or hold players accountable to show up and put in the work every day. How do you suggest Spo go about it?
