Do NBA Coaches Even Matter?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- We are going to look at a Study done by the University of Chicago.
They came up with a methodology for finding coach effectiveness called RIFLE.
Randomization Inference for Leadership Effectiveness
RIFLE is a formula that tries to factor out chance and elements outside the control of a coach to measure how much influence leadership has on a teams record.
In the NBA a coaching change is shown to worsen a teams record for the immediate future. Again pretty obvious, if you’re changing coaches you’re either giving up on the season or focusing on rebuilding.
Overall this study's conclusion was that across all sports the success of a team is about 20-30% percent in control of the coach.
It seems to me that the first head to roll after a failed season is always the coach.
Here’s why. NBA coaching salaries don’t count toward the salary cap, so they are easy to let go.
A player is harder to let go because their contract counts toward your cap. You can release them but that doesn’t free up any cap space for you.
Coaches are paid significantly less than players.
Highest paid coach is greg popovich at 11 million dollars a year
That’s enough to pay reggie jackson or dwight powell
As a general manager cutting a coach is less costly and is going to be seen as a far bigger management move than trading Powell or Jackson.
I bring up the example of Frank Vogel.
I think Frank Vogel was unfairly fired from the Lakers.
I think the squad he was dealt in 2021-22 as a product of Rob Pelinkas management was not enough to achieve even a mediocre amount of success.
Ultimately Rob Pelinka the GM of the Lakers had to blame someone besides himself so he put it on Vogel.
Vogel was replaced with Darvin Hamm and they still suck.
Which again isn’t Darvin Hamm’s fault.
What is the responsibility of a coach and How much do they actually control?
For instance Tyron Lue coached the clippers in the 2021 playoff series against the jazz to play small ball and focus on perimeter shooting.
Knowing that the only defensive threat on that team was Rudy Gobert who was not a great perimeter defender. The Clippers shot them out of the game and won the series 4 games to 2
Coaches run practices
A coach needs to manage his staff and practices and ensure every member of the rotation is prepared for the next game.
One way that went wrong was in 2018 when in his first week of coaching Jim Boylen held a 2 and a half hour practice where the players did military pushups and wind sprints. Then he scheduled a practice on a Sunday the day after a back to back.
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I’ve thought about this before, it seems to me that a bad coach can mess up a team with good talent if they don’t know how to utilize them well, but a good coach has somewhat of a limited ceiling depending on what they have to work with. I think it’s tough for good/skilled players to surpass their coaching, as well as a coach can’t work miracles out of below average talent. Been loving the thought provoking questions/topics, thanks again man, keep ‘em coming.
I think that's the general consensus. Hire a guy and give him a few years to build a culture. If the team doesn't vibe with him or he stagnates move on to someone else. Thanks! I'm thinking about doing a video about general management for next week.
Here after Milwaukee went through 2 different coach fires in less than a year
this is how I found out Adrian Griffin was fired.
I was just thinking this the other day... Like even the "good" coaches sometimes run shit teams idk man
yeah the coach is just a piece of the puzzle. No matter how good the coach is, they can't save a bad team.
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always denied it until i saw mazulla vs spo in last years playoffs
Mazulla is still rules though
coaches do matter during the playoffs schemes, adjustments etc but no coach can a championship without a superstar player
yeah, true. there's definitely a skill to it and then also about creating good energy amongst the team.
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@@whatslaps exactly
this is a debate me and homie be having all the time and i think its kinda tough question to answer
you see someone like POP and wonder is that cuz of TIM and if it is why isnt the same success happening to other coaches like 76ers and nets, but then again you see coaches like Will hardy on the jazz and they playing with inspired ball
at the end of the day the coach is not just for adjustments and schemes but also for team morale and motivation and well needed leadership which i think sets coaches like Ty lue, Spo, Pop, kerr from any other coach cuz they provide something more than just schematics but morale and who to poke to get the team going. Let the team play with some heart and inspired ball and when the coach is able to do that with the Leader of the team the team looks better for it, making it seem like the coach was useless when it was all set up by him to start
my thoughts exactly. A good coach can make a good team great, but a good coach can't do nothing with a bad team.
2:49 idk man y’all look good last 10 games
haha, I know. That part of the video isn't aging well, but I'm cool with it.
theres no way nba coaches matter more than nfl coaches
no way. football coaches are masterminds.
Yes unless you bron
true. He's got the executive order
The Ham comment is aging well...
haha, I don't remember what I said. hope I wasn't too mean.
Lakers are good
true. maybe vogel did suck
Lmao Lebron waves off Darvin Ham all the time
I feel like he's been doing that since he left spoelstra. haha
Lakers still aren't good! Lmao bro saw the future
ask me the lottery numbers
@whatslaps I have been binge watching a bunch of your vids from like 2 years ago tonight. Goated content, my man! Keep it up good sir :)
La still sucks 😂
Clippers or Lakers?