1) He knows what his team is good at, and he knows what each of his players good at. He knows what other teams are good at, and he knows what other players are good at... 2) He has to show maximum confidence to his players, boost their confidence and make them play with high energy. 3) He has to find a good match for offense and defense. Let us go back to reality, I like Gregg Popovich as a coach. Why, check each individual player in Spurs' roster, most of them are not top talented players, why they can be on the top the west conference? --- Pop knows how to get the maximum from the players and make a good team. Let us compare with McHale. First, I respect him as a player. As a coach in this league, you have check yourself if there is anything wrong if your team has a winnable game, but lose at the end. For last night's game, Both TRob and Asik should on the court if we highly reply on Harden on the offense, to my surprise, even the hot-hand Parsons didn't touch the ball at the end of game. Dirk is the big star in Mavericks, but they still share the ball at the end so Mayo and VCarter can contribute... I don't think there is anything wrong with Harden, as a player, he played hard. But other players just gave the ball to Harden at the end of game, no one else even has indent to shoot. As a coach, you have change it. Otherwise, we will lose more and more games and end up losing bad...
This has been stated a million times over and over again, but I still agree with you. Of course the McOF's don't want to hear this at all!
