Eric Spo

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Id rather this topic be on him alone and what you think of his job whether he'll be there next year or not

I say no


Anybody wonder why James Jones never got a chance to play?

[sportyguyfl31]

Re: Eric Spo

I think Spo is going to be the scapegoat here.

Lebron didnt play because of Lebron...and Pat Riley will see himself as the key that then can unlock the enigma.

OHHHH..James Jones LOL..nevermind lol about Lebron...but I do think Riley is going to be umm.."involved"

[Drewski]

Riley coaching the Heat next season seems like a dangerous prospect for both the players and Ol Man Riles. I don't expect Lebron and Riley to be able to co-exist in that setting and while Riley could fight that battle I think he'd just Sloan it up and hit the sunset and let Lebron have what he wants.

Spo has room and time to grow. Unfortunately for him, Miami doesn't. We will see what happens

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[BleacherBum2310]

Re: Eric Spo

I think Spo will be fine. I just don't think Riley wants to be Coaching at the moment.

and I believe Jones was hurt and that's why he didn't get any playing time in the finals.

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Re: Eric Spo

Is he hurt?

It was like Eddie House's first bucket in months.. he just ignored the shooters and kept force feeding wade and bron

Wade was turned into the PG which was a bad idea

I also think that his defensive rotations and non adjustments to them really helped them seal a loss to lead they had

[ex carrabba fan]

Re: Eric Spo

Spo will be the scapegoat should they opt to sacrifice someone, but what gets lost is that they made it pretty darn far in their first year. Lol

Sure he didn't make adjustments defensively later in the series, but hell neither did LA or OKC either. Let's give credit where credit's due. Mavs offense coming in was absurd. They were torching anyone in their path with no regard.

Dallas' offense was honestly stifled for 2.75 games and if LeBron and Wade didn't choke game 2 away, we would all be singing a different tune right now since they would have been up 3-0

There are no excuses here, LeBron playing passive is the glaring problem here, not Spo. Spo deserves his criticism but when your star player decides he doesn't want to be the star anymore, what the hell can you do? How many different coaches is it gonna take for LeBron to realize players win championships?

Maybe once they get a rotation that can go past 7 players, we can truly judge him as a coach.

[videobastard]

Re: Eric Spo

Spo is done. He does not have a ghost of a chance being the head coach for next season. Spo's flaws were covered up by the teams success in the celtics and bulls series. But in the nba finals his flaws were part of the reason the heat lost the series. Lebron and spo get most of the blame.

Pat riley would of made the proper adjustments to win games 2 and 4 of this years nba finals that the heat lost.

During the mavs runs, the heat needed a coach to say to wade and james get to the free throw line g** damn it. A coach that would say stop jacking 3 pointers. Stop going for the homeruns and get base hits. A coach that could motivate a lebron james and set plays for him as well as others to take some of the pressure of them.

Spo continued to run the same sets even when there was no success. Grinding can only do so much you need to put your players in the position to score or get fouled.

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Re: Eric Spo

Spo will be the scapegoat should they opt to sacrifice someone, but what gets lost is that they made it pretty darn far in their first year. Lol

Sure he didn't make adjustments defensively later in the series, but hell neither did LA or OKC either. Let's give credit where credit's due. Mavs offense coming in was absurd. They were torching anyone in their path with no regard.

Dallas' offense was honestly stifled for 2.75 games and if LeBron and Wade didn't choke game 2 away, we would all be singing a different tune right now since they would have been up 3-0

There are no excuses here, LeBron playing passive is the glaring problem here, not Spo. Spo deserves his criticism but when your star player decides he doesn't want to be the star anymore, what the hell can you do? How many different coaches is it gonna take for LeBron to realize players win championships?

Maybe once they get a rotation that can go past 7 players, we can truly judge him as a coach.

While I agree ec... thats the thing that may get him canned... if you cant get through to this guy you're now Mike Brown status which means you dont have enough juice to handle the job

[SPTO]

Re: Eric Spo

There's definitely going to be a scapegoat in all this and Spo could be the guy to be forced to leave which is a shame because I think he has the makings of being a pretty good coach. The problem is that no young/inexperienced coach is ever going to succeed with the set up of having Lebron calling all the shots. We saw what happened in Cleveland with Mike Brown and it does seem like the coach (Spo) doesn't matter a damn in Miami as long as egos are stroked.

What Miami needs is a veteran coach with a track record who won't be afraid to put his foot down but what they've got there would be better suited for a younger guy like Spo because the older coach would get burned out very quickly.

I don't think Riley really wants to go back into coaching any time soon and any other name with a pedigree probably wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole. So I think Spo will stay on as he should.

[ex carrabba fan]

Re: Eric Spo

Is this thread for possible replacements as well?

Phil Jackson? Since there's gonna be a lockout, Jackson will get an extended rest before jumping back in.

Lol

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Re: Eric Spo

Riley may not come back but Spo may not either... if anything some of his succes was because of those guys playing hero ball if we're honest here

Thats why he had no problem deferring to that in the end

[23]

Re: Eric Spo

Is this thread for possible replacements as well?

Phil Jackson? Since there's gonna be a lockout, Jackson will get an extended rest before jumping back in.

Lol

As much as Phil has done that in the past, i dont think he does it

[Drewski]

Spo will be the scapegoat should they opt to sacrifice someone, but what gets lost is that they made it pretty darn far in their first year. Lol

Sure he didn't make adjustments defensively later in the series, but hell neither did LA or OKC either. Let's give credit where credit's due. Mavs offense coming in was absurd. They were torching anyone in their path with no regard.

Dallas' offense was honestly stifled for 2.75 games and if LeBron and Wade didn't choke game 2 away, we would all be singing a different tune right now since they would have been up 3-0

There are no excuses here, LeBron playing passive is the glaring problem here, not Spo. Spo deserves his criticism but when your star player decides he doesn't want to be the star anymore, what the hell can you do? How many different coaches is it gonna take for LeBron to realize players win championships?

Maybe once they get a rotation that can go past 7 players, we can truly judge him as a coach.

I agree with all of that, especially the rotation bit. Yeah he had a couple shiny hot wheels but the drop in talent is dramatic after Lebosh Wade. He tried a lot of different looks through the regular season and I get the feeling he never found the right mix that achieved his vision. Bibby may have made it even harder to figure out what the Hell he wanted to get out of the pg spot. Chalmers played well through the series and was draining from long range.

I don't think Wade playing the pg role is a problem, but that offense seems too stagnant with Bron at times. The Heats offense was running WAY smoother when Lebron was on the bench yesterday and I'm thoroughly surprised no one has pointed that out yet. Of course they're better talent wise with Bron but I think that offense needs Lebron to evolve, and by evolve I don't mean increase his jump shoot shooting percentage.

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Re: Eric Spo

yeah people mentioned his low +/-, but he was dogging it

Wade at PG was bad at the time he tried it because of the sitation

and all he did was come down, lose the ball, jack up a bad 3, or take a lofty shot that wasnt going in... non PG like at all

[videobastard]

Re: Eric Spo

Id i had to put a percentage on it i would go lebron 40% spo 30% of the blame. The rest going to the mavs.