On April 25, Beijing time, there is a saying called "good fighters have no outstanding achievements", in the first round of the NBA playoffs, there was completely such a scene, the civilian basketball Heat, which lacked Butler and Rozier, the two starting superstars, actually miraculously defeated the Celtics, and set a new record with 23 three-pointers.
In Game 1, when the team lost to the Celtics by 20 points and was almost thrown out of garbage time, Spoelstra showed his ability to adjust and immediately came back in Game 2, so he had a new record, and after losing Game 1 of the series, Spoelstra led the team to a 10-3 record in Game 2.
Only when this coach leads the team, no matter what lineup his team is, even if you give him a few NBA homeless people, he can give you the effect of competing with the first in the league, and the style of play and strategy are different in each game, as long as the players execute it in place, it will always make the opponent unable to parry.
And such a top coach has to be said to be the coach that James and the Lakers need the most, and the weakest link of the Lakers in this series against the Nuggets so far is not any player, or the head coach. In the first game, it can be said that Lasse is too crotch-pulling in 6 out of 20, Zhan Mei is fine, but in the second game, not only Zhan Mei is no problem, Russell is also no problem, 8 of 16 also hit 7 three-pointers, he will not be so accurate when playing normally, the Big Three is no problem, role players are also performing, the worst player must be the head coach, this coach obviously has no strength, the on-the-spot should be changed by Ma Long, but if the adjustment is faster, the Lakers will not fall behind 0-2.
As a result, many believe that if Spoelstra could replace Ham, the Lakers could now be 2-0 ahead. Indeed, if Coach Spo really replaces Ham, we have no doubt that the current score is likely to be 2-0 for the Lakers, 1-1 at most, and the Nuggets don't have that many chances.
But the problem is that Coach Spoelstra is probably and the only one who will never join the head coach of the Lakers, because the biggest and only coaching crisis that Coach Spoy has encountered so far in his entire career was when he coached James, so the possibility of letting him in his prime and the elderly James work together again is almost zero.
The 54-year-old is now in the prime of life as a coach if he can replace the incompetent Hamm. The Lakers do have a good chance of going one step further and even helping James win his fifth crown. But the problem is that when Spo led the Heat, he was almost fired by James, and Emperor Zhan once forced the palace to let Riley take office, so he openly protested Spoelstra's arrangement during the game, and deliberately hit Spoelstra's shoulder during the timeout, completely not giving the coach face.
Emperor Zhan deliberately bumped Spo on the shoulder, just to let Riley out of the mountain, Spo himself admitted in the interview, at that time he felt that he had a high probability of getting out of class, but he wanted to thank Pat Riley, because when James forced the palace to change the coach, Riley himself refused to go out of the mountain, but firmly chose to support and support Spo. So in the follow-up, James saw that he couldn't control Riley's opinion, and immediately chose to leave the Heat in 2014 and returned to the Cavaliers, where he obviously has a greater say.
If Riley really listened to him at that time and obediently fired Spo, he might not have chosen to leave, so this is the only time Spo has been out of class in his entire career, in addition, due to the support and support of Riley behind him, in the past 16 years, he has never encountered any possibility of getting out of class, and even in the year when the Heat did not enter the playoffs, he did not worry about getting out of class.
This is a generation of famous marshals, no matter what cards are left in his hand, he can always win by surprise, he can be called a god with soldiers, Riley chose him and he was indeed the right bet, especially when he was at the peak of the Zhan Huang Palace, to replace a rookie coach who had only been a rookie for only 5 years, and it was really unbearable to replace it with someone else. But it is precisely because of this that you say that if you want Spo to coach the Lakers, then this possibility is indeed zero.
His biggest regret now is not to go to the Lakers to replace Ham and achieve James, but that he has never won the best coach award in 16 years, which is the so-called good fighter has no outstanding achievements.