Who would you replace Spo with?

[SweetTouch]

Interesting stat

@WindhorstESPN: Heat lead NBA in FG% after Spoelstra timeouts at 47%. Mike Brown's Lakers are 2nd, Gregg Popovich's Spurs 3rd, Doc Rivers' Cs 4th

Fat Windy always has interesting stats. I prefer him over Ira who just answers dumb questions

[HIF]

We have two players who are "Way better than not terrible" and your "elite" defender. You fail to understand the concept of basketball being a team game.

Good point Bosh is clearly a terrible player and is in now way a lot better than that.

Also Joel is a much better defender than your boy is as a coach. I guess you don't understand the concept of defense.

Bosh hasn't been playing way better than not terrible since before the all Star game but if you fail to see the difference between "way better than not terrible" and "terrible" I understand another of your problems.

I love your defense of Joel. I respect that. It's a shame that you have to hate so much on several other players and Spo though.

[HIF]

Walls and walls of blah blah Spo hate and then in answer to the question delivers one name as replacement : Phil Jackson

Hilarious man, you must have wasted hours of your life hating on spo in thread after thread but the only replacement you come up with is Phil Jackson.

Of course historically PJ is one of the greatest coaches ever so it was a pretty safe option. especially considering that he has retired.

Then again you could also see the signs of burn out with PJ, I wouldn't be a fan of bringing him in as I don't think he has what's needed anymore. you might as well say Red Auerbach or John Kundla.

I think PJ would be as much use as other ex-greats like Jerry Sloan, Lenny Wilkens, Larry Brown ... If we're going down that route than Pat Riley is the only possible and he's burnt out too.

If that's the best you can come up with, then stop the hating. I'd have thought you could have given 50 or 60 realistic options.

IMO Pops is worth taking but why would he when he has a much better team and situation.

[RexBoyWonder]

George Karl >> Spo.

[Run DLC]

Spo isn't a bad head coach, but he isn't a good one either. He knows that we have a very small team, but he doesn't seem concern enough to find a way to help fix our team's inability to consistently rebounds the ball.

[pirate_pr]

Nate McMillan i have said it ever since McMillan was out from Portland. If Thibs was free next season if Chicago does not give him what he wants i would go with him. Riley would not bring Phil Jackson imo since that will shadow his image but anything is possible NEVER SAY NEVER.

[Big Dee Chi-Born]

Mr. Pimpwerx, please don't ever say that Spo is a better coach than Thibs or that he out coached him in any sense of the word as it pertains to last year's playoffs. Yeah the Heat won, but it wasnt because of Spo's coaching.

Last night was a pure display of what coaching a TEAM is all about! I can guarantee you, that Spo wouldn't have the heart to sit Dwyane Wade if he was stinking up the gym. I can gaurantee you that Spo wouldnt wouldnt sit Bosh or even Haslem for that matter in the 4th qtr if the bench was out playing them! The Haslem/Bosh combination hasn't worked in two years, yet Spo says that's something he's been wanting to do for awhile now???? Seriously??? Is this man blind or something?

The Heat's offense is thee absolute worst thing to watch in basketball! I have never seen a team run the pick n roll or pick n pop and never gain an angle or advantage. Never! The Heat run it and the ball ends up right back outside the three point line! Where are the counters if the initial attack is stopped? I watched Thibs run Kyle Kover off curls over and over and had our defense scrambling all over the court trying to stop a jumpshooter! But we can't cause the same havoc with Wade and LeBron??? Bump that... We should be able to cause that kind of havoc with Mike Miller or JJ, but all we do with our shooters is stand them behind the three point line! People in the Heat world thought it was sour grapes when Shawn Marion criticized Spo's boring offense, but it's all on full display now.

This "Pace n Space" stuff is stupid! The Bulls just showed us how easy it is to carve up the paint with quick passes and three guys in the lane! Joel Anthony and Turiaf should average 4 dunks a game with Wade, LeBron and Bosh on the floor. And the fact that the Bulls don't just put their bigs as far away from the basket as humanly possible is why they can get so many offensive rebounds. And guess what? That's by design too and that my friend is good elite coaching!

And what really takes the cake for me: all year long this man would play Chalmers the entire 1st and 3rd qtrs and wouldn't bring Norris Cole into the game until the 1 minute marks of the qtr! And people wonder why this man's game struggled??? He's cold now! That's almost 30 minutes of sitting real time and just when he starts running a lil bit the qtr is over and he has to stand around some more!!! But now with this make shift BS lineup you've concocted it's ok to pull Mario out early and often? SMDH

I wont even touch the defense or the fact that he hasn't had the heart to try to develop Eddie Curry's post game in the an actual game. And not just one or two games here and there... The limited thinking of this man is just bafflling.

Spo is a hard worker but he's not a head coach. Just like Joel Anthony is a hard worker and he'll never be a true starter and will never be a KG type. Its not in Spo to lead men. It's not...

[WD]

Mr. Pimpwerx, please don't ever say that Spo is a better coach than Thibs or that he out coached him in any sense of the word as it pertains to last year's playoffs. Yeah the Heat won, but it wasnt because of Spo's coaching.

Last night was a pure display of what coaching a TEAM is all about! I can guarantee you, that Spo wouldn't have the heart to sit Dwyane Wade if he was stinking up the gym. I can gaurantee you that Spo wouldnt wouldnt sit Bosh or even Haslem for that matter in the 4th qtr if the bench was out playing them! The Haslem/Bosh combination hasn't worked in two years, yet Spo says that's something he's been wanting to do for awhile now???? Seriously??? Is this man blind or something?

The Heat's offense is thee absolute worst thing to watch in basketball! I have never seen a team run the pick n roll or pick n pop and never gain an angle or advantage. Never! The Heat run it and the ball ends up right back outside the three point line! Where are the counters if the initial attack is stopped? I watched Thibs run Kyle Kover off curls over and over and had our defense scrambling all over the court trying to stop a jumpshooter! But we can't cause the same havoc with Wade and LeBron??? Bump that... We should be able to cause that kind of havoc with Mike Miller or JJ, but all we do with our shooters is stand them behind the three point line! People in the Heat world thought it was sour grapes when Shawn Marion criticized Spo's boring offense, but it's all on full display now.

This "Pace n Space" stuff is stupid! The Bulls just showed us how easy it is to carve up the paint with quick passes and three guys in the lane! Joel Anthony and Turiaf should average 4 dunks a game with Wade, LeBron and Bosh on the floor. And the fact that the Bulls don't just put their bigs as far away from the basket as humanly possible is why they can get so many offensive rebounds. And guess what? That's by design too and that my friend is good elite coaching!

And what really takes the cake for me: all year long this man would play Chalmers the entire 1st and 3rd qtrs and wouldn't bring Norris Cole into the game until the 1 minute marks of the qtr! And people wonder why this man's game struggled??? He's cold now! That's almost 30 minutes of sitting real time and just when he starts running a lil bit the qtr is over and he has to stand around some more!!! But now with this make shift BS lineup you've concocted it's ok to pull Mario out early and often? SMDH

I wont even touch the defense or the fact that he hasn't had the heart to try to develop Eddie Curry's post game in the an actual game. And not just one or two games here and there... The limited thinking of this man is just bafflling.

Spo is a hard worker but he's not a head coach. Just like Joel Anthony is a hard worker and he'll never be a true starter and will never be a KG type. Its not in Spo to lead men. It's not...

1st, I haven't heard "BUMP THAT" in years and 2nd, Shawn Marion came back to kick our azz(playing his game) jut like Masburn did back in the day.

[Flash4thewin]

Whats been clear since year one of Spo is that hes constantly trying to fit a square peg in a circular hole. Our "Brilliant" coach staff cant grasp the concept of playing to your strengths, instead its lets force you to fit an old system. We go all out and get the best tallent in the world yet when it comes to coaching we dont just go on the cheap we go on the cheap and stubborn. Watch if SPO blows this golden opportunity again not even a college team will want to hire him.

[Altered_Beast]

Mr. Pimpwerx, please don't ever say that Spo is a better coach than Thibs or that he out coached him in any sense of the word as it pertains to last year's playoffs. Yeah the Heat won, but it wasnt because of Spo's coaching.

Last night was a pure display of what coaching a TEAM is all about! I can guarantee you, that Spo wouldn't have the heart to sit Dwyane Wade if he was stinking up the gym. I can gaurantee you that Spo wouldnt wouldnt sit Bosh or even Haslem for that matter in the 4th qtr if the bench was out playing them! The Haslem/Bosh combination hasn't worked in two years, yet Spo says that's something he's been wanting to do for awhile now???? Seriously??? Is this man blind or something?

The Heat's offense is thee absolute worst thing to watch in basketball! I have never seen a team run the pick n roll or pick n pop and never gain an angle or advantage. Never! The Heat run it and the ball ends up right back outside the three point line! Where are the counters if the initial attack is stopped? I watched Thibs run Kyle Kover off curls over and over and had our defense scrambling all over the court trying to stop a jumpshooter! But we can't cause the same havoc with Wade and LeBron??? Bump that... We should be able to cause that kind of havoc with Mike Miller or JJ, but all we do with our shooters is stand them behind the three point line! People in the Heat world thought it was sour grapes when Shawn Marion criticized Spo's boring offense, but it's all on full display now.

This "Pace n Space" stuff is stupid! The Bulls just showed us how easy it is to carve up the paint with quick passes and three guys in the lane! Joel Anthony and Turiaf should average 4 dunks a game with Wade, LeBron and Bosh on the floor. And the fact that the Bulls don't just put their bigs as far away from the basket as humanly possible is why they can get so many offensive rebounds. And guess what? That's by design too and that my friend is good elite coaching!

And what really takes the cake for me: all year long this man would play Chalmers the entire 1st and 3rd qtrs and wouldn't bring Norris Cole into the game until the 1 minute marks of the qtr! And people wonder why this man's game struggled??? He's cold now! That's almost 30 minutes of sitting real time and just when he starts running a lil bit the qtr is over and he has to stand around some more!!! But now with this make shift BS lineup you've concocted it's ok to pull Mario out early and often? SMDH

I wont even touch the defense or the fact that he hasn't had the heart to try to develop Eddie Curry's post game in the an actual game. And not just one or two games here and there... The limited thinking of this man is just bafflling.

Spo is a hard worker but he's not a head coach. Just like Joel Anthony is a hard worker and he'll never be a true starter and will never be a KG type. Its not in Spo to lead men. It's not...

+1
probably the best post ive read since someone posted "fire spo"

[Tim_Hardaway]

Mr. Pimpwerx, please don't ever say that Spo is a better coach than Thibs or that he out coached him in any sense of the word as it pertains to last year's playoffs. Yeah the Heat won, but it wasnt because of Spo's coaching.

Last night was a pure display of what coaching a TEAM is all about! I can guarantee you, that Spo wouldn't have the heart to sit Dwyane Wade if he was stinking up the gym. I can gaurantee you that Spo wouldnt wouldnt sit Bosh or even Haslem for that matter in the 4th qtr if the bench was out playing them! The Haslem/Bosh combination hasn't worked in two years, yet Spo says that's something he's been wanting to do for awhile now???? Seriously??? Is this man blind or something?

The Heat's offense is thee absolute worst thing to watch in basketball! I have never seen a team run the pick n roll or pick n pop and never gain an angle or advantage. Never! The Heat run it and the ball ends up right back outside the three point line! Where are the counters if the initial attack is stopped? I watched Thibs run Kyle Kover off curls over and over and had our defense scrambling all over the court trying to stop a jumpshooter! But we can't cause the same havoc with Wade and LeBron??? Bump that... We should be able to cause that kind of havoc with Mike Miller or JJ, but all we do with our shooters is stand them behind the three point line! People in the Heat world thought it was sour grapes when Shawn Marion criticized Spo's boring offense, but it's all on full display now.

This "Pace n Space" stuff is stupid! The Bulls just showed us how easy it is to carve up the paint with quick passes and three guys in the lane! Joel Anthony and Turiaf should average 4 dunks a game with Wade, LeBron and Bosh on the floor. And the fact that the Bulls don't just put their bigs as far away from the basket as humanly possible is why they can get so many offensive rebounds. And guess what? That's by design too and that my friend is good elite coaching!

And what really takes the cake for me: all year long this man would play Chalmers the entire 1st and 3rd qtrs and wouldn't bring Norris Cole into the game until the 1 minute marks of the qtr! And people wonder why this man's game struggled??? He's cold now! That's almost 30 minutes of sitting real time and just when he starts running a lil bit the qtr is over and he has to stand around some more!!! But now with this make shift BS lineup you've concocted it's ok to pull Mario out early and often? SMDH

I wont even touch the defense or the fact that he hasn't had the heart to try to develop Eddie Curry's post game in the an actual game. And not just one or two games here and there... The limited thinking of this man is just bafflling.

Spo is a hard worker but he's not a head coach. Just like Joel Anthony is a hard worker and he'll never be a true starter and will never be a KG type. Its not in Spo to lead men. It's not...

Great post!

[_jin]

At first I thought you guys were like all other fans (look at the other teams forums, Spurs fans want to fire Pop, 76ers fans wants to fire Doug, basically outside of CHI and DEN all fanbases are mad at their coaches), but now I understand.
I didn't think there was an offensive coach as bad as Vinny Del Negro but I think Spo might just be it. And his defensive schemes, while good, are very risky when things are not clicking and all players not focused.

[ssenbonzakura]

The defense I believe will get better in the playoffs when we can game-plan for teams. The offense on the other hand......well we don't have one. Hope the big 3 are up for a lot of minutes with good efficiency, cos that's what it'll take. There is absolutely no way a team of this caliber should have to go minutes without scoring.