Miami Heat: Coach Spo, Suns’ Williams, & Zaga’s Few On Kerr’s USA Staff
As the Miami Heat are and will be from a leadership standpoint over the next score of years, the Team USA Basketball program is now in good hands again.
After a reign that has included Gregg Popovich, Mike Krzyzewski, Larry Brown, Rudy Tomjanovich, and others, the new head men’s basketball coach for Team USA is none other than the Golden State Warriors’ own— Steve Kerr.
That’s not a bad choice, at all. Though Erik Spoelstra is the best doing it from this perspective, Kerr isn’t a bad choice and besides, he chose a really good crop of assistants to help him along.
Here is the report, per ESPN’s scoop-meister, Adrian Wojnarowski.
"USA Basketball is finalizing a decision to name Steve Kerr as the next national coach with an assistant coaching staff that will include Monty Williams, Erik Spoelstra and Mark Few, sources tell ESPN. A formal announcement is expected in the near future."
With the league seeing how well these coaches can do with top-level talent, they have all also succeeded in lesser circumstances.
The Miami Heat and Team USA now have two things in common, Bam and Coach Spo. With him and the rest of the staff, they are, surely, in great hands.
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That lets you know that whatever the international gauntlet may throw at this group, they will succeed.
On the flip side, you also can have the assurance that they will win when they are supposed to win. They are all rather affluent in that area as well.
That goes for the pro guys, especially, but for Mark Few of Gonzaga as well. Now, getting the premiere and top-end talent, he had to build that program to that point.
He has done so, still succeeds when his talent isn’t top-level, but definitely does when it is. Either way it goes, Team USA should definitely be a great place for the foreseeable years to come.
There is also something to be said for the Miami Heat aspect of things. Follow along here.
The national team will have a real Miami Heat flare for years to come as well. With Bam Adebayo likely being a leader and key member of it for, at least, two more Olympic cycles, he and Spo have that part covered there.
When you think about the fact that Spo coached the Select Team that helps them get ready for Olympic play this past go-around, there is also something there. There is also this.
You might eventually see another young Miami Heat star on that national team level, based on his showings thus far and an invitation to play with the Select guys. Tyler Herro could be another added piece of Miami Heat culture to the whole scenario, especially if he keeps going.
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Either way it goes, it’s looking good for USA Basketball. Great for Coach Spo though and for all those relationships he’ll be able to build— for potential Miami Heat free-agent acquisitions.