That has to be the most over-used and overrated term ever in the history of sports!
Avery Johnson was fired by the Dallas Mavericks yesterday. I thought he was considered a player’s coach? Wasn’t he just named coach of the year two years ago?
I recall Tony Dungy being fired by the Tampa Bay Bucs and he was regarded as a player’s coach.
Byron Scott, wins coach of the year in the NBA this past season. Here’s a guy who was fired by the New Jersey Nets a few years ago all along taking them to the Finals two years in a row! The New York Times’ Harvey Araton on Scott and fate.
“That’s our business, what have you done for me lately?” Scott said Thursday in a telephone interview after working his team out before the start of the next round, Saturday against the defending champion San Antonio Spurs. “I know that firsthand.”
Listen to Scott while he was out of coaching.
“To be honest, that was an enjoyable time for me, reconnecting with my family,” he said. “My wife and I were at the Y every day, going to lunch. It was a chance to sit back, a time to reflect, to decide whether I even wanted to get back into coaching, because I never imagined that it would so different than when I played. But it is. There was a lot more respect for the coaches than there is now.”
As a coach, we have the power to change that, the respect issue I am talking about.
Where does it all start?
Time to get back the respect.
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