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Where did Sloan's senility go? New pills discovered?

He is a little more open to new things, but the main thing is he has BETTER players. PLAYERS are the ones who win and lose. You can blame him for using Mcbrick and other craps earlier, but that is the hand he was dealt at the time. Now he has better players, makes it much easier. As I said earlier though, he IS doing much better at trying new things this year and not sticking to the same ideas over and over.
 
One difference I have noted that is tangible is that Sloan is not sitting on his time-outs or subs while leads dwindle to nothing or while we get deeper in a hole. In past years one of my biggest gripes with Sloan is that he will let the team just keep playing and watch 12-15 point leads turn into 10 pt deficits before altering anything at all, then all the momentum and the team's confidence is gone and the games were often a lost cause at that point. Even when we have gone down by 18-20+ this season he has done things during those runs by the other team to try to disrupt it. In years past he would simply all-too-often let them "play through" it and just go deeper and deeper in the hole or blow the entire lead before he stepped in to actually, well, coach. Timely time-outs and subs can disrupt these kinds of runs (watch Pop coaching and you will see excellent use of time-out and subs to disrupt runs by the opposing team) and I have noticed in the few games I have been able to watch this year that he is more judicious about it than in years past. I think it shows he is adjusting and trying to imrpove as a coach and I take it as another good sign for the season.
 
LogGrad98 said:
One difference I have noted that is tangible is that Sloan is not sitting on his time-outs or subs while leads dwindle to nothing or while we get deeper in a hole.
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Even in the limited games I've seen, I've noticed Sloan calling timeouts when the defense/offense was not being run correctly, and we were losing a lead. He doesn't call them when there are no changes to make. Sometimes, the other team is shooting the shots you want them to take, but they are making them anyhow. A timeout doesn't fix that.

I haven't watched a lot of Popovich, but I really doubt he calls timeouts just to say "You guys are doing everything just like we planned, but we're having some bad luck, so I'm trying to change that luck with a timeout."
 
Sloan never was senile. A great coach, indeed. Where's that idiot now, moo goo gai pan or whatever, and his 'old man senility' garbage? Where are you now, idiot?
 
Scorpjazz said:
He is a little more open to new things, but the main thing is he has BETTER players. PLAYERS are the ones who win and lose.
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...better players? We got rid of all-star Boozer, 6th man candidate and dead eye shot Korver....and another starter in Brewer, and replaced them with guys no other teams wanted because they were considered scrubs! Sloan just gets them to buy into his fundamentally sound system that makes every player better and more productive. Of course, it helps to have probably the best point guard in the league!
 
carolinajazz said:
...better players? We got rid of all-star Boozer, 6th man candidate and dead eye shot Korver....and another starter in Brewer, and replaced them with guys no other teams wanted because they were considered scrubs! Sloan just gets them to buy into his fundamentally sound system that makes every player better and more productive. Of course, it helps to have probably the best point guard in the league!
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By that logic we should be a worse team now than we were with those other three.
 
carolinajazz said:
...better players? We got rid of all-star Boozer, 6th man candidate and dead eye shot Korver....and another starter in Brewer, and replaced them with guys no other teams wanted because they were considered scrubs! Sloan just gets them to buy into his fundamentally sound system that makes every player better and more productive. Of course, it helps to have probably the best point guard in the league!
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I think we have better subs and more versitile. One of sloans 'senility problems' is that John and Karl play 20 years straight. In that case, those guys (and Horny) are the one's to play down the stretch, regardless (for you PK fans Irregardless) So there was minimal option to do too much configuriing and re-configuring. Today, Deron is definately our best scorer and we have a point guard back up who is better than we've ever had. So Sloan DOES have an option to play DWill at the two for a stretch. These sort of examples are much more prevelant today than in years past.
 
One Brow said:
Even in the limited games I've seen, I've noticed Sloan calling timeouts when the defense/offense was not being run correctly, and we were losing a lead. He doesn't call them when there are no changes to make. Sometimes, the other team is shooting the shots you want them to take, but they are making them anyhow. A timeout doesn't fix that.

I haven't watched a lot of Popovich, but I really doubt he calls timeouts just to say "You guys are doing everything just like we planned, but we're having some bad luck, so I'm trying to change that luck with a timeout."
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Try reading the whole post before replying, jus' sayin'. Replying to the first sentence makes you look, well, like you didn't read what was written. Feel free to try again.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Try reading the whole post before replying, jus' sayin'. Replying to the first sentence makes you look, well, like you didn't read what was written. Feel free to try again.
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Although I quoted only one sentence, for brevity, anyone who read my post at a fourth-grade level would have noted that I referred to points you made throughout the post to which I replied. So, my williness and ability to read the entire post is not really in question.
 
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