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<blockquote data-quote="FiveStar" data-source="post: 1501964" data-attributes="member: 603998"><p>I don’t get this belief that it is impossible for Howard to be a good coach. Below is his resume. Yes, most of it is as a player (more on that later), but consider the coaches he’s been around in his career. Don Nelson, George Karl, Jeff Van Gundy, Pat Reilly. Guys who know their Xs and Os and have had pretty good success coaching at the highest levels of basketball. It’s not unfathomable to think he might have picked something up along the way.</p><p></p><p>He also played about 20 years in the league. You don’t get that far, without being a cerebral, high IQ player who really knows the game. As the athleticism vanishes you gotta make up for those lost steps somehow, and being multiple steps ahead mentally is usually how. Also consider that many times players and coaches refer to those long tenured vets as “like a coach” because they’ve seen so many different situations. It’s not like any of this is his first rodeo other than being a head coach (but it’s not like he was the first person to ever become a head coach with no head coaching experience). </p><p></p><p>I don’t even like Juwan Howard like that, but it’s not like he’s some nobody who couldn’t possibly have a clue what he’s doing. As much as people clamor for our former players to come back and coach our sports, if one of our old guys had a resume like his, people would be ecstatic and call him a genius hire for our program. To that point, you could make a solid argument that Howard is more qualified to be UM HC than Josh Whitman is to be our AD.</p><p></p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><th></th><th></th></tr><tr><th>As player:</th><th></th></tr><tr><th><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395_NBA_season" target="_blank">1994</a>–<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_NBA_season" target="_blank">2001</a></th><td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Wizards" target="_blank">Washington Bullets / Wizards</a></td></tr><tr><th><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_NBA_season" target="_blank">2001</a>–<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_NBA_season" target="_blank">2002</a></th><td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Mavericks" target="_blank">Dallas Mavericks</a></td></tr><tr><th><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_NBA_season" target="_blank">2002</a>–<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%9303_NBA_season" target="_blank">2003</a></th><td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Nuggets" target="_blank">Denver Nuggets</a></td></tr><tr><th><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304_NBA_season" target="_blank">2003–2004</a></th><td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Magic" target="_blank">Orlando Magic</a></td></tr><tr><th><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_NBA_season" target="_blank">2004</a>–<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_NBA_season" target="_blank">2007</a></th><td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Rockets" target="_blank">Houston Rockets</a></td></tr><tr><th><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_NBA_season" target="_blank">2007–2008</a></th><td>Dallas Mavericks</td></tr><tr><th><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309_NBA_season" target="_blank">2008</a></th><td>Denver Nuggets</td></tr><tr><th><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309_NBA_season" target="_blank">2008–2009</a></th><td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bobcats" target="_blank">Charlotte Bobcats</a></td></tr><tr><th><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310_NBA_season" target="_blank">2009–2010</a></th><td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Trail_Blazers" target="_blank">Portland Trail Blazers</a></td></tr><tr><th><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_NBA_season" target="_blank">2010</a>–<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_NBA_season" target="_blank">2013</a></th><td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Heat" target="_blank">Miami Heat</a></td></tr><tr><th><br /> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_NBA_season" target="_blank">2013</a>–<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_NBA_season" target="_blank">2019</a></th><td><br /> Miami Heat (assistant)</td></tr></table></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FiveStar, post: 1501964, member: 603998"] I don’t get this belief that it is impossible for Howard to be a good coach. Below is his resume. Yes, most of it is as a player (more on that later), but consider the coaches he’s been around in his career. Don Nelson, George Karl, Jeff Van Gundy, Pat Reilly. Guys who know their Xs and Os and have had pretty good success coaching at the highest levels of basketball. It’s not unfathomable to think he might have picked something up along the way. He also played about 20 years in the league. You don’t get that far, without being a cerebral, high IQ player who really knows the game. As the athleticism vanishes you gotta make up for those lost steps somehow, and being multiple steps ahead mentally is usually how. Also consider that many times players and coaches refer to those long tenured vets as “like a coach” because they’ve seen so many different situations. It’s not like any of this is his first rodeo other than being a head coach (but it’s not like he was the first person to ever become a head coach with no head coaching experience). I don’t even like Juwan Howard like that, but it’s not like he’s some nobody who couldn’t possibly have a clue what he’s doing. As much as people clamor for our former players to come back and coach our sports, if one of our old guys had a resume like his, people would be ecstatic and call him a genius hire for our program. To that point, you could make a solid argument that Howard is more qualified to be UM HC than Josh Whitman is to be our AD. [TABLE] [TR] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TH]As player:[/TH] [TH][/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395_NBA_season']1994[/URL]–[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_NBA_season']2001[/URL][/TH] [TD][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Wizards']Washington Bullets / Wizards[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_NBA_season']2001[/URL]–[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_NBA_season']2002[/URL][/TH] [TD][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Mavericks']Dallas Mavericks[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_NBA_season']2002[/URL]–[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%9303_NBA_season']2003[/URL][/TH] [TD][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Nuggets']Denver Nuggets[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304_NBA_season']2003–2004[/URL][/TH] [TD][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Magic']Orlando Magic[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_NBA_season']2004[/URL]–[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_NBA_season']2007[/URL][/TH] [TD][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Rockets']Houston Rockets[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_NBA_season']2007–2008[/URL][/TH] [TD]Dallas Mavericks[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309_NBA_season']2008[/URL][/TH] [TD]Denver Nuggets[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309_NBA_season']2008–2009[/URL][/TH] [TD][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bobcats']Charlotte Bobcats[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310_NBA_season']2009–2010[/URL][/TH] [TD][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Trail_Blazers']Portland Trail Blazers[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_NBA_season']2010[/URL]–[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_NBA_season']2013[/URL][/TH] [TD][URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Heat']Miami Heat[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH] [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_NBA_season']2013[/URL]–[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_NBA_season']2019[/URL][/TH] [TD] Miami Heat (assistant)[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/QUOTE]
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