Thanks for proving my point, which was that in his first year I did not "never give him a chance." I specifically said that I'd like to give him time to prepare and some different pieces before I write him off as a coach. Yes, I did bitch about his substitution patters because they sucked, and have continued to suck in his career. Though as I've found out later it's not quite about rigid substitution patterns as it is about overly playing vets for some dumb reason. Criticizing one of his coaching methods does not equate to never giving him a chance. Yet they were better than Sloan's and still are frankly. That was the biggest problem with Sloan, and I was hardly alone in making that observation. His substitution patterns were absolutely rigid, and I don't believe that is a good coaching philosophy. Others may like that philosophy. The defense I heard of it many times was that it lets players get into a routine and know when they are ready to play. That's one side of it, but the other side is that you take out a player whose playing well based on nothing but the time on the clock, thus killing his momentum. I believe the latter side has more merit, and so do a ton of other NBA head coaches throughout history.
If that equates to "I know how to manage a team better than Sloan or Corbin" then I'd say your grasp of the English language sucks donkey *********. It's an opinion about one of many coaching philosophies. That's it.
