nate33 wrote:dlts20 wrote:nate33 wrote:No. EJ sucked as a coach. Gilbert Arenas was better than anybody on our current roster yet EJ only cracked 43 wins once and never cracked 45 wins. Butler was about as good as Bradley Beal too.
I was just speaking about offense. EJ is not a HC. He's basically an offensive coordinator. Guys like Witt are defensive coordinators. We need to find someone who can do both like the next Brad Stevens. Instead we held onto Witt too long and now have Ernie's son as our HC
See, I think EJ was overrated as an offensive coach. He was innovative, but his innovations weren't all that efficient. Ultimately, his system demanded a lot of skills from his bigs, and offensively skilled bigs are typically poor defenders (unless they're superstars). Basically, the very nature of his offensive system made it inevitable that the team wouldn't have good defensive personnel. A good offensive coach can make the offense work despite having to hide one or two defensive specialist type players who can do little else on offense except catch-and-shoot or rim roll.
All that said, I don't mean to imply that Brooks is doing a good job either. Unlike a guy like Brad Stevens or Rich Carlisle, Brooks does not seem to understand how to put his players in a position to succeed - to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Frankly, I liked the offense better under Wittman. Wittman's offense, at least when a stretch-four in place, worked okay. At least it put Gortat in pick-and-rolls where he is best; it put Wall in pick-and-rolls and making his skip passes to the corners, what he does best; and it had Ariza playing exclusively catch-and-shoot or attacking close-outs.
Eddie was not overrated as an offensive coach.
Antonio Daniels and DeShawn Stevenson where the starting guards and went to the playoffs. If anything Eddie was ahead of his time using Princeton type centers.
Eddie was an innovator and he was not afraid to give young guys a chance. He once played Pecherov, Blatche, and I believe JaVale McGee as his frontcourt. That was when each of them were 22 years old or less.
I think Eddie was tied to what Tom Penn or Pete Carrill or others invented as an offensive system. He didn't innovate that. One thing Eddie would do is change up on the fly. He had a knack for putting the right guy in the game at the right time, regardless of the offense.
Jordan's greatest attribute was he could beat you with an underdog team.
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