SinceGatlingWasARookie wrote:PCProductions wrote:JordansBulls wrote:The person to feel bad in all of this is Mark Jackson. He was the coach for a few years and then they replace him with Kerr and they win 67 and 73 in back to back seasons. Must be tough commentating for him seeing this.
Jackson is the one who should feel bad for having visibly held this team back for at least the 2014 season. There has never been such an evident example of coaching impact in NBA history.
My feeling is that the Warriors don't get to this level without Mark Jackson. Mark Jackson oversaw the change of the team from a chaotic ununited dispirited team that did not play defense into a united happy team that takes pride in defense and winning.
Jackson was a great point guard without great speed and I give Jackson some credit for the development of Steph Curry as a point guard and in the team's use of picks to help Curry Just as the Pacers used to help Jackson and Reggie Miller get free.
But Jackson wanted a point guard dominant offense and the team was right to move on to Kerr who switched the team from Knicks, Pacers, Jazz style to aPhil Jackson Bulls - Pop Spurs style. The Ball movement non point guard dominant style was needed to stop teams from shutting down the Warriors when they shut down Curry.
The emergence of Draymond Green as a play-maker made double teaming Curry ineffective.
Hiring and firing Jackson and hiring Kerr all seemed perfect to me after the fact. Ownership and management has come out looking very good.
Jackson should get another chance to coach. Jackson may have learned from his mistakes. Even if Jackson has not learned from his mistakes any coach who can get guys to give a good defensive effort is a good hire for a dispirited team.
Jackson had a team stacked with good defensive players, and a team that was stacked in general - and had been through out his tenure, the Warriors were underrated. Jackson did not make the Warriors a good defense, and he certainly didn't make Curry a better player (what does Jackson being a PG have to do with anything? Every coach played a position, it doesn't mean they are better at developing players who played that said position, there's no proof of that at all).
Mark Jackson is a dreadful, dreadful, coach - literally one of the worst coaches in the league when he was there, if not the worst, he sure as hell doesn't deserve another chance, he'll only get one because bad coaches tend to find jobs in the NBA.
I've never seen someone get so much credit for letting Stephen Curry shoot before. Stephen Curry's emergence was inevitable, if you look at his history, the writing was on the wall that he was eventually going to explode and that there were just a few factors that held him back (his ankles and Monte Ellis). The league is a point guard oriented offense and that pre dates Mark Jackson.
If a coaches' only skill is getting other players pumped up, then they are cheer leaders not coaches. Morale boosting is nice, but the coach has to do a lot more than that, and Mark Jackson can't even do basic stuff.
the bulls one was pretty incredible too
