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blood94

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Can some please explain to me how being a NBA coach is better (besides the $$$$) . I have always thought if you wanted to accomplish something in coaching it would be to take a roster of student athletes to a national championship. That is coaching. What does a NBA head coach do half the time, the players by the time they get to that level can basically do anything thing they want. they are ego maniacs all the time, (Lebron, Carmello, Rondo, Etc.). A nba coach just basically sits on the side lines and is just a face

Now as a college coach you can mold those young athletes to be better and better to chase that dream. I just feel that would be more of an enjoyment seeing that jubilation at the end of the season.

just my opinion have at me
 
blood94 said:
Can some please explain to me how being a NBA coach is better (besides the $$$$) . I have always thought if you wanted to accomplish something in coaching it would be to take a roster of student athletes to a national championship. That is coaching. What does a NBA head coach do half the time, the players by the time they get to that level can basically do anything thing they want. they are ego maniacs all the time, (Lebron, Carmello, Rondo, Etc.). A nba coach just basically sits on the side lines and is just a face

Now as a college coach you can mold those young athletes to be better and better to chase that dream. I just feel that would be more of an enjoyment seeing that jubilation at the end of the season.

just my opinion have at me
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Coaching professionals vs coaching amateurs.
 
Coaching does matter in the NBA. Perhaps it's not as pronounced, but it does matter. The biggest difference is the perception from the public -- in college, the coach is the star, and in the NBA, the players are the stars.

A coach in the NBA isn't "just a face". Even at the highest levels, drawing up plays, teaching defense, preparing strategies.. it all still matters, and that comes down to coaching.
 
No dealing with boosters, no recruiting - which I think it's pretty obvious Fred is not a big fan of, get to coach the best players in the world.
 
blood94 said:
Can some please explain to me how being a NBA coach is better (besides the $$$$)
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There's an argument that someone like Fred would net MORE money in his career at ISU than rolling the dice in the NBA

DandyCyclone said:
Coaching professionals vs coaching amateurs.
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Define professionals. If it's a guy that complains that Thibs practices him too hard I'd take an amateur.

CyJack13 said:
No dealing with boosters, no recruiting - which I think it's pretty obvious Fred is not a big fan of, get to coach the best players in the world.
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Personally I'd rather coach amateurs and win than "the best players in the world" and lose. The New York Knicks are among the "best".
 
Not having to recruit players, no NCAA bs to wade through, and more focus on actually calling the correct plays.
 
The notion that coaches don't matter in the NBA is completely wrong on every level. There's a reason Golden State won 67 games and is now the favorite to win the finals with the exact same roster they had last year when they didn't even get out of the first round. There's also a reason the Spurs beat the Miami Heat by the widest margin ever last year when Miami had 3 allstars including the best player in the league.

The coach can't make a bad team great, but a good coach makes a bad team mediocre, a mediocre team good, a good team great, and a great team the 2015 Golden State Warriors. And bad coaches work that same way except in reverse.

This is like comparing a college football vs NFL job
 
This is clearly an argument coming from someone who thinks college basketball is better than the NBA
 
We can sit here and make all the assumptions we want about which job is better, but it all comes down to what Fred wants.

I'll admit I haven't watched an NBA game in years, but love college basketball. But as a fan and spectator, I can't sit here and absolutely say that a college coaching job would be so much better than an NBA job. Each job has +'s and -'s.
 
the NBA game is better than the NCAA game. Coaches do matter. Look at the team that is going to win the NBA championship, the Warriors. Brand new coach took them to this level.
 
YG4hunnid said:
The notion that coaches don't matter in the NBA is completely wrong on every level. There's a reason Golden State won 67 games and is now the favorite to win the finals with the exact same roster they had last year when they didn't even get out of the first round. There's also a reason the Spurs beat the Miami Heat by the widest margin ever last year when Miami had 3 allstars including the best player in the league.

The coach can't make a bad team great, but a good coach makes a bad team mediocre, a mediocre team good, a good team great, and a great team the 2015 Golden State Warriors. And bad coaches work that same way except in reverse.

This is like comparing a college football vs NFL job
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You know the Bulls just fired a good coach, right?
 
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Obviously coaching matters... but no amount of coaching will overcome the star power some of these NBA teams have.

Any team with LeBron is immediately a title contender.
 
djcubby said:
We can sit here and make all the assumptions we want about which job is better, but it all comes down to what Fred wants.

I'll admit I haven't watched an NBA game in years, but love college basketball. But as a fan and spectator, I can't sit here and absolutely say that a college coaching job would be so much better than an NBA job. Each job has +'s and -'s.
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Right, the allure of the league matters to those who have the possibility of coaching there...like Fred.

But the debate is valid. The NBA isn't automatically better because it's the highest level of professional basketball.
 
weR138 said:
You know the Bulls just fired a good coach, right?
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Thibs is a great DEFENSIVE coach I'll give him that but honestly he's mediocre at best as an offensive mind and he ignores all of the injury-probability data that I'm sure their analytics department invested a lot of money in. He got fired because he didn't get along with the front office not because he was a bad coach. He'll get hired somewhere else.
 
YG4hunnid said:
Thibs is a great DEFENSIVE coach I'll give him that but honestly he's mediocre at best as an offensive mind and he ignores all of the injury-probability data that I'm sure their analytics department invested a lot of money in. He got fired because he didn't get along with the front office not because he was a bad coach. He'll get hired somewhere else.
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Interesting, sounds like the next Bulls coach will be a yes-man.

It's remarkable that such a mediocre at best coach could be the COY in the great NBA.
 
YG4hunnid said:
Those darn NBA teams with their better players higher ratings and advanced analytics need to get off my lawn! Dickie V baybbeee
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Gonna have to ask for some numbers on this one; NCAA tournament vs. NBA playoffs, please.
 
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