The Miami Heat are preparing to tip-off a new season shortly and that means that they are surely knee-deep in preparation for what is to be one of the most exciting and aniticpated seasons in a while. That goes from the top on downward.
That includes the chief decision makers, the players, and the coaches. Well, one particular part of one of those entities just saw his future get a bit more interesting, potentially.
Here is the report in question. It shouldn’t be that hard to figure out who the particular person in question is after seeing the evidence.
USA Basketball replacing Gregg Popovich as coach https://t.co/NxPtucNn8c
— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) September 16, 2021
Erik Spoelstra’s antennae should should be all the way up at this news. Coaching the USA Select team this past summer, the team of NBA players in charge of helping the real Team USA get ready for Olympic play, Spoelstra already has the chops and the knowledge of what he’d be getting into.
The Miami Heat’s head man, Erik Spoelstra, already has ties to the Team USA program. Shouldn’t he, logically, be the next one up, based on his resume?
When it comes to coaching a collection of the world’s greatest players and with the pressure of winning being at an all-time high, who’s, realistically and quite literally, better suited for the gig? If the answer isn’t “nobody”, then there must be some kind of amnesia present.
What current coach or Team USA eligible coach has coached a team with more collective top-end talent than that of the Big 3 Era? Name a single solitary team that has been under more simultaneous scrutiny and pressure to win it all, with just a modicum of lapse being considered complete failure?
Who, among these coaches, has taken that team and suceeded, by all accounts, in the situation? Only Erik Spoelstra, to be fair.
You can say Steve Kerr did it, but they weren’t as hated or hoped upon to mess it up as the Big 3 Miami Heat were, to be totally honest. That also brings the next thing up.
He wouldn’t be a terrible candidate. Neither would Monty Williams, as he is a good coach and has a huge fan in Gregg Popovich too.
There are probably a few more guys on that list too, however few and that’s if any, are more suited to take the role than Spo is. Now, that’s also only if he wants it, but why wouldn’t he?
Spo probably has quite a bit of Pop’s respect too, so he probably wouldn’t mind either of the three named guys, one would imagine. However, based on all that has been stated here and just looking at it all from a what’s the most appropriate perspective, Spo has always been the next guy, right?