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John Stockton for Coach

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Absolutely love Stockton. Brains, strategist, competitor. I believe he'd be a bad NBA head coach because he is introverted and extremely private and dealing with the press would be a huge drain on him. As a player he hated public relations stuff, preferring to hang up the sneakers and go home and play with his kids. And he was highly perplexed by the new generation of player. He is as old school as Sloan, and Sloan was old school 15 years ago. My prediction is that he'll coach at Gonzaga (although their HC is pretty young) or some other mid-level college. Those of you who haven't read his autobiography might want to leaf through it, it gave a lot of insight into these issues.
 
I remember before Larry died, that there were a few journalists who said something to the effect that when Jerry retired that the job was stocktons if he wanted it. Must not have wanted it then. I would totally be happy with Stockton as coach.
 
I missed the part where John Stockton was really Phil Jackson.
Everybody needs to chillax, man. We don't need to always be doing this "hire from within" jack.
 
UGLI baby said:
If they handed out usernames in Alphabetical order according to how good you were at evaluating future coaches, your username would be zman1527.
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Brilliant retort, just brilliant. I asked for some evaluation of Stockton as a coach beyond "he was my favorite Jazz player", and all you can come up with is a cutsey personaly attack? Nice work.
 
zman1527 said:
There you go again, confusing playing with coaching. Hey, I hear that Bill Russel is available too.
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You couldn't have picked a worse example. Bill Russell coached over 600 games, including some when he was still in the league, won more than half of them and won two NBA Championships.

I understand that being a good player does not guarantee that you'll be a good coach, and I wouldn't be shocked if the correlation was somewhat negative at high levels, but you picked a very very poor example.
 
Players and coaches see the game from different perspectives. Some players just happen to see the game from multiple perspectives and they become good coaches. If I could compare it in my terms, it's like comparing a first-person shooter to an advanced strategy game. You have to see the whole playing field and be able to read and react very quickly if you're going to be a good coach in this league. Some people naturally have that sort of instinct for the game, others learn with experience, and some never really fit the mold.
 
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