
#187: Evaluating NBA Coaches (Coach of the Year)
Thinking Basketball
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The Oklahoma City Thunder's Defensive Concepts
Mike Brown won coach of the year in 2009. Then he had some sort of almost unceremonious exits in places. And then he goes to Steve Kerr's staff as an assistant. Cody, you look at these assistants and you're like, Hey, there's longtime NBA head coach Kenny Atkinson. If you're Steve Kerr, you're a rookie head coach, and you have a coach of theyear as one of your assistant coaches. He ends up coaching defensive teams that are better than they were on offense. I'm not necessarily saying that I'm pulling from Mark Dagnold here. But I think that's an interesting thing when you start thinking about very specific expectations that you
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