How Can JJ be this Bad at Coaching?

Yeah, you would think a former point guard would have some concept of the game; when to pressure on defense, when to push tempo, when to calm down and run set plays for your main low post players etc. At the very least, noticing when the team is rattled and needs a timeout.

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How can someone who spent most of his adult life in one sport not be better at the fundamental elements that are required to be successful? I just don't get it.

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Because good players don't necessarily make good coaches....and he played for Dale Brown who from an X's and O's standpoint was just as bad as JJ... that's all he knows.

Well, his mentor had Shaq, Stanley Roberts, and Chris Jackson and didn't make it to the sweet 16. Furthermore, Brown had Shaq for THREE YEARS and never made it past the 2nd round of the NCAA's. The big glaring difference between JJ and Dale Brown...Brown was a master motivator and master communicator, which compensated significantly for his lack of coaching. JJ is NEITHER of the aforementioned two traits.

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How Can JJ be this Bad at Coaching?

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The Dale Brown coaching tree.

I'm convinced that this team would be far better with no coach.

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How Can JJ be this Bad at Coaching? by TigerFanNKatyHow can someone who spent most of his adult life in one sport not be better at the fundamental elements that are required to be successful? I just don't get it.

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I don't think it's the nuts an bolts of coaching that's the problem. Sure he left the Aussie kid in there in crunch time yesterday, that was poor coaching in that sense.

But I've seen CJJ do a chalk talk on defending the ball screen. He touched on all the points all coaches do. There are only so many ways to coach it and most coach it basically the same way. Johnny was no exception.

However, what you see on the court is way too often not what I saw in that chalk talk. Sometimes it was effort on the kids part or whatever but it just wasn't getting from the practice court to the games nearly consistently enough.

And therein IMHO lies the rub. Accountability, motivation, whatever you want to call it....I think that's CJJ's downfall.

And the fact that we are patting the kids on the back for finally displaying consistent effort and not quitting is as telling of that and IMHO as sad as anything.

You are SUPPOSED to play hard and not quit...ALL THE TIME...not just every now and then. You don't get a cookie for every now and then doing what you should always do.

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The big glaring difference between JJ and Dale Brown...Brown was a master motivator and master communicator, which compensated significantly for his lack of coaching. JJ is NEITHER of the aforementioned two traits.

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this is 100% correct. Dale could cover his x-and-o coaching deficiencies with motivation and demanding intensity from his players, especially on defense. Johnny doesn't do that.

Dale also had Ron Abernathy as an assistant and a pretty good Xs&Os guy.

Has to do with a bunch of different things. Maybe he's never grown since he was a player and won't adapt. Maybe his expectations are too low. Maybe there's no standard. Maybe he can't teach the game as well as he learned it. Maybe he wasn't taught properly. Maybe it was outdated. Who knows. There's a reason there are coaches that played the game at the higher levels and there are reasons you can have a coach that was a bench player on his high school team.

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