I apologize if this is a topic that has been done before but what do people think about Steve Kerr? Personally, I think he is someone who has been very lucky to have the success and results that he has had: 1) be a key bench guy on a team with the greatest player in NBA history in Jordan 2) be another key bench guy on a team with David Robinson and Tim Duncan 3) be given a plum job in management with the Suns despite that he had never proven himself to be more than a 3 point specialist off the bench 4) when that job doesn't really work out, he is able to "land on his feet" with an announcing gig 5) take over as a coach in his first season of a team that was already considered to be one of the best teams in the NBA (thank you Mark Jackson) There will be some of you that will deride this post and call me "Sour Grapes" but I have never liked him. I remember when he was an announcer, he was such a blatant Spurs homer that watching him announce games were unbearable. I'm sure that he doesn't think the Rockets would have won back to back championships if Jordan had played the full season for '94 and '95 (a prevalent opinion of a lot of Rocket haters). He reminds me of a combination of my ex-brother-in-law and Phil Jackson - two people that always wound up being in situations that made them smell like a rose (well not Phil's situation now but everything he had done before becoming Knicks President). I just do not like him. Period.
I thought he would flop given my general disdain for him individually and many of the points you made regarding his career.... that said he's been damn good. looks like he was meant for a coaching position.
Steve Kerr is a good guy and I'm happy for him. But he is soooo lucky SVG turned down the Warriors. He probably wouldn't be any more successful with the Knicks this year than Fisher.
Steve Kerr has been successful because he's not an idiot and he's not stubborn or arrogant. He surrounds himself with good assistants and he listens to them because he knows that they know more X's and O's than they do. Alvin Gentry is one of the top offensive assistants in the league, their defense coach is also one of the best. Those guys deserve a lot of the credit.
Agree, seems like a decent guy. Actually it would be weird if he was stubborn/arrogant etc, as he was always a role player in his career throughout his career. He's been extremely lucky to have 5 rings, and all that success after retirement.
Or that he has qualities that champion teams look for, therefore signs/hires him. He inherited a bottom half playoff team with 51 wins, not one of the greatest teams in history. He turned it into one by being competent, not lucky. How many coaches would bench David Lee and handle it seemingly so well?
His best move as coach was moving Green to replace Lee in the starting lineup. Lee sucks, Lee has always sucked
That does sound like nothing but sour grapes. He was a key bench guy because he has the highest 3 pt% ever. When you have a skill of that magnitude good teams want you. It wasn't just because he got lucky. He was fine as an announcer IMO. And he has taken the warriors to a completely different level. Nobody seems to want to give him credit for that, but they were no threat to win a title last season, and now they are the odds on favorite.
As a role player, which team trades for you/offers you a contract, especially back when free agency wasn't so open was as much pot luck where they ended up. His skill set had value to the teams who won the titles, good luck to him really.
Role player make the best coaches because they have to learn how to be successful in the NBA with their limitations. Great players generally make pretty poor coaches because they were great and they don't understand why players can't do what they did. DD
Guys that had long careers in the NBA despite having limited physical gifts generally make good coaches. Kerr definitely fits this description.
GS was the #6 seed each of the last two years. This year. they are the #1 seed, 10 games clear of the field with basically the same roster.
Kerr is a special case. There was one NBA open court episode where he said that both his parents were teachers, and he actually considered coaching bball rather than playing it, as early as his college days.
