What are your criticisms of Corbin, or do you ascribe to the relentlessly positive school?
--Complete lack of inbounding plays. Then again, he doesn't have a Mailman or AK47 to throw the ball in.
--What Billyshelby has been saying about Corbin seeing the big picture (run more, shoot 3's, etc.) but not knowing how exactly to implement it. This may very well end up being valid criticism. Before last night, I saw players who weren't meshing and failing to take what the defense gives. They seemed to jell a bit last night though. I'll give the offense until game 25 or so to pass judgement on Corbin. He has definitely improved defensive rotations and the overall mindset this season. Help and help the helpers have been doing pretty damn good jobs on the wings.
--I'm not beating him up over not subbing in Favors at the end of the NOH game. Some coaches subscribe to two things here-- 1) rotations matter to player confidence, & 2) Stick with the players who are already warm and in the flow of the game.
We don't have the best players, but you can see you the quality of a coach when he has scrubs/mediocre players on the floor, like Boston did today at times.
Who? Barbosa and Green? Barbosa has always been able to score in bunches. He's a former 6th man of the year and career 39% 3 point shooter with a great drive. Noone knows who Green is at this point, and that Wilcox guy looked pretty athletic to me.
Corbin did a pretty decent job covering their main players and forced them to beat him with "scrubs" like Brandon Bass & Barbosa. Bass hit his typical open jumpers at a 50% clip. Big whoop. Meanwhile, Jefferson made Garnet look stupid on one end and Millsap (and Hayward) went right at him on the other. Corbin also coached Jason Terry completely out of the game. Rondo with six points in 25 minutes.
Their defense was disciplined, and they ran and executed plays even without Rondo in the game.
The Jazz defense was disciplined last night. 1 point game in crunch time in Boston Garden is very much a success for this team.
Another example is your favorite coach G. Popovich. He makes scrubs look like fantastic players.
Yeah, and so does every other coach with the luxury of two All Stars who've been playing together forever. Calbert Cheney, ****brain Shandon... Donyel Marshal couldn't shoot worth a damn until Sloan's system turned him into a 50% shooter. Hell, even Scott Padget almost looked like an NBA player under Sloan with S&M.
Corbin's team looks like it isn't quite sure what the coach is trying to say or what they should do. You might be able to do that with LeBron James on your team. So if you think that Ty is a-okay, then I'll have to disagree. When his team looks disciplined, his rotations crisp and dynamic, and he wins games by superb play calling and substitutions, then I will be the first to laud him to the heavens. Until then, I'll continue to see his mediocrity every game.
So what the hell is he supposed to do? Kevin O'Connor has stuck him between a rock and a hard place. This is a go-nowhere team playing Al-centric post dominance so Corbin tries implement knew schemes. You think those are going to be crisp and disciplined right out the box, with 3 key new players, and a bunch of young guys who have never really known what minutes they will be getting?
Until O'Connor makes a few trades we will not be able to evaluate how successful Corbin is in wringing the most out of what he has. There's too much static and way too many unknowns on the offensive side at this point.
