The role of the NBA head coach is actually very clear. Their number one task is to appease the superstars, maintain stability in the dressing room, and keep the team from losing without a bottom line.
To achieve this, coaches must either coax their stars with plenty of chicken soup for the soul and let the stars lead the team to win, or use subtle tactical arrangements to stimulate the ability and fighting spirit of ordinary players, and use joint efforts to play a good regular season performance.
In the final analysis, it is necessary to suppress the contradictions within the team with a stable victory, and it is best to have a chance to impact the championship. Throughout NBA history, there have been tacticians, chicken soup masters, and a bunch of fleeting mediocrity.
can make chicken soup and tactical deployment at the same time, and the basket feels that there is only one person in the NBA at present, Heat coach Spoelstra. So he received the best recognition today. According to reports, Coach Spo signed a contract extension with the Heat, getting an early contract extension that is expected to be eight years and $120 million.
Coach Spo's current contract has not expired, and according to previous reports, his annual salary this season is $8.5 million, which no one really thinks is expensive. No one has any objection to the eight-year $120 million contract extension in advance today, and it is a voice of praise and recognition.
But it may be hard for you to imagine that Coach Spo, who now seems to be very successful, was also a relational in the past. As many people know, Coach Spo started out as a video editor for the Heat, spending a lot of time watching the game carefully and editing out the material he needed.
But in fact, not too many people know that such a painstaking drudgery was only obtained by Spo's father after leaving the door. Maybe it's because of his personality, or maybe it's the experience of "going through the back door", Coach Spo has always been unconfident in his heart, he is afraid that he will not do well enough and be pointed at by others.
After two years as a video editor, Spo maintained a meticulous work attitude, and gradually won Riley's appreciation, which gave him a chance to rise.
After being promoted to assistant coach, Spo still didn't dare to relax, often sleeping in the team's locker room, staying up late to sort out each opponent's game report, just to be able to hand it over to Riley in the morning. Spo, who has worked hard, must have made extraordinary progress, and after Riley stepped down from management, he naturally stood on the front desk and became the coach of the Heat in 2008.
Who would have thought that this station would be 16 years, and today I know that it will be another 8 more years. Statistically, Spo has played against 108 different coaches in his coaching career so far, and since he took office, there have been 167 coaching changes in the NBA, and he himself has remained impressed.
Of course, the difference between the assistant coach and the coach is still very big, and the pressure is also very different, and Coach Spo, who has a deep accumulation, did not take over smoothly as soon as he came up.
In the first season, Spo's performance was passable, but in the second year, he was complained by the star Wade because he was too slow to adapt on the spot. Fortunately, Spo's adjustment was fast enough, and Riley also trusted his closed disciple very much, and even put together a triumvirate of James, Wade and Bosh for him, and directly sent him a "full level".
At the time, there were rumors that Spo was nothing more than a puppet and that Riley would be ready to step up when the Heat were in trouble. And when the famous "shoulder knock" occurred, it was widely believed that Spo would be abandoned by the Heat.
But Riley supported Spo, who also lived up to expectations, really calmed the stars under his command, commanded the Heat to win two consecutive championships, and stabilized his position.
But it didn't take long for the days of boiling chicken soup, James left, Bosh and Wade retired due to injury, and the Heat became a very "civilian" team again, no longer with the league's top five superstars, and the time to test Spo was again.
This time, Spo didn't need Riley to back him up, the championship coach's resume was enough to convince the public, and years of experience as a head coach made him comfortable with the thorns.
In order to improve his combat effectiveness, Coach Spo created the well-known "three-hour training method", that is, one and a half hours of free training for players, and the remaining hour and a half to frantically squeeze the players' physical fitness and pursue the limit of physical fitness. In addition, Coach Spo strictly controls the body fat percentage of his players, which must never exceed 6%.
In addition to high pressure, Coach Spo is not without warmth, he himself is not from a high background, so he is willing to give second-round picks and even draft picks a chance, so that those players who are not talented can play to the extreme of their energy.
Last year, the Heat team had a well-known "Big Four Draft", although they failed to defeat the Nuggets and win the championship, they all played their value, such as Vincent went to the Lakers to get a big contract, and Strus was poached by the Cavaliers. Even this season, the undrafted Drew Smith was played by Coach Spo before he was reimbursed for a serious injury season, and the older rookie Harkes became the team's main rotation.
Raising the bar and making good use of people, that's why Coach Spo was able to lead the Heat to the Finals last season with the 8th place in the East, creating the miracle of the Black Eight in NBA history for the second time in the Finals.
No wonder some people ridiculed, saying that Spo can bring the mediocre Heat so well, if he goes to lead the Pistons with a talented lineup and can make "eight dishes and one soup" on the spot, there will definitely not be an embarrassing situation of 28 consecutive defeats.
Coach Spo's story can actually illustrate a problem: many people hate the relationship and feel that the relationship has encroached on the position of the hard-working person, but what if the relationship is more hard than you imagined, more involved than you?
Stepping stones are important, but what is more important is whether the next move is to adapt to the needs of the team and prove that you can match the intensity of the position.
Riley can do it once in 2011, but not for the rest of his life. The existing respect and reputation are made by Spo little by little. Wade is gone, James is gone, Bosh is gone, and Butler will be left in the future. But Coach Spo, at least another 8 years to do, he's worth it.