The Miami Heat are preparing to go into their biggest season in quite some time. While they did make a run to the NBA Finals in the season before this latest one, the Bubble Year, that was unexpected.
While it did, indeed, finish big, it didn’t or they didn’t enter the season thinking it would be that way. With their newest additions, mainly Kyle Lowry, they should know their full potential heading into this season.
If they don’t, Coach Erik Spoelstra will be sure to remind them early and often. An avid lover of the tempo that Lowry plays with, Spoelstra should be quick, himself, to pick up on the best ways to get the best out of Lowry.
That’s one of the things that sets Spo apart. That would be his ability to adapt, adjust, and maneuver to the talent that he has at his disposal.
Miami Heat: Steve Kerr Sits Ahead Of Erik Spoelstra For Team USA Job
That’s one of the great qualitites about him that would have made him a super candidate for the Team USA coaching role. However, that may not be in the cards for the Miami Heat’s head man.
According to NBA Reporter Marc Stein:
"Golden States’s Steve Kerr has emerged as a favorite to succeed San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich as head coach for the USA Basketball senior men’s national team, league sources say."
Along with that part of the report, there were a few other intricacies and details of note highlighted in Steins reporting.
He did note that Miami Heat head man, “Erik Spoelstra is another natural candidate for the position”, per his sources.
However and with the “vagaries”, obviously meaning “vague” but probably to describe the volatile and fluctuating nature of international play (perhaps), they have a “key requirement” of “prior international experience”. Interesting.
While that is all fine and dandy, winning at that level is about being able to take the best talent in the world, the stars, superstars, and megastars, and helping them to figure out how to be stars in their role for the greater success of a team.
Miami Heat: Steve Kerr One Of The Few That Is As or More Qualified
There is but only one man with as much recent successful experience in that area as Spoelstra (The Big 3). Guess who though, as it just so happens to be Kerr (KD & Splash Brothers Era).
However, when you look at the overall experience factor, not only does Spo have him by seven years of head coaching experience but he also has 11 other prior years of high-level NBA coaching experience that Kerr doesn’t have.
It’s neither here nor there, as the decision might already be made, but Spo could make a case for there being more or as much value in having that much more overall high-level experience. Who’s to say Spo even wants the gig though?
Who knows? He would have to entertain the offer if it came though, right?
Either way, Kerr looks to be the man in line for it… right now. However, If Spo wants it at some point, you have to assume he’s next in line, right?