most of the coaches who land a top 5 job in the sport have more experience than one stint as an assistant.
I think once you dig into Roy’s story, he did pay his dues. He volunteered as a student while at Carolina to take stats and worked Coach Smith’s camps just to be around the program. He was a high school coach in a number of sports (and the AD) for a number of years before coming back to Carolina. And then, as you noted, when he came back to Carolina, he had to sell calendars and deliver tapes just to make it financially as an assistant coach.
You seem to have conveniently left out that he got a throwaway scholarship and was told that he might not ever play by a Hall of Fame coach. If there's a silver spoon in his mouth, he dug the silver and forged the spoon.
Most don’t have 12 years in the NBA either.
Personally I think the whole paid your dues conversation is pointless. Either you have the right guy or you don't regardless of how that person learned to be a coach. I was just pointing out that anyone who says that Roy didn't pay his dues is not worth listening to. I'm still waiting for the season to play out before I make up my mind on another year for Davis, not that anyone making the decision is listening to my opinion.
That's not really relevant to Hubert's coaching career. His playing career, sure, but not his coaching career.
absolutely. or experience playing under all of dean smith, pat riley, don nelson, rick carlisle, larry brown, etc. etc.
We’re less than a year removed from an ACC championship and Hubert being ACC COY.
last year was good but it was the only full carolina standard season HD has had in his 4 at the helm. and it left a bit to be desired with the relative disappointments in the acct and s16 loss, but you could excuse those in light of the dook sweep and reg season title if the good stuff was the norm and not the outlier.
2 out of 3 3/4.
Hey, in 2001 we were ACC regular season champs (in a conference that also had the eventual national champion as well as a team that would be the following year’s national champion) and Doherty was AP national coach of the year.
Sure, that year was pretty good on the surface. That wouldn’t be considered a bad season.
Sure, it definitely could. So, with that in mind, share with us things you've seen this year from HD and/or staff that would be in praise of them. Adjustments on offense, defense, mind-set, etc....anything.
I strongly believe that the best way to judge a season is in 2 parts...season and post-season.
you appear to be focusing on the good stuff at the end of 21/22 while ignoring the ugly beginning and part of the middle of that season. i thought we had to judge the entirety of a season?
Several second-half comebacks indicate effective coaching changes made at halftime.
The team finished 3rd in the ACC. That’s not “bad”.
What lead to those comebacks is the question. Was it HD/staff making timely adjustments that helped the team? Was it the other teams letting their foot off of the pedal? Was it other things? (Also, consistently starting out slow is a negative on the staff. So, the second-half comebacks also highlight negatives.) It's good to see them change up the lineup. However, it's still head-scratching that they are continuing to start (and even play) RJ alongside Cadeau, and now bring Ian off the bench. For HD's offense, the best lineup they could go with would be RJ, Ian, Drake, JWit, JWash/VAL. If they want to start Cadeau, RJ, and Seth, then they should not be running the offensive sets they are. I do recall a few good plays coming out of timeouts, along with a few bad plays - on both ends of the court.
He wasn't fired after 8-20.