hier mal was ein heatfan, der realgm-mod ist, über stan geschrieben hat:
His first season in Miami as a head coach, Pat Riley resigned the night before the 1st game, giving Stan the young team with literally no training camp of his own. He literally ripped up everything Pat did and started over from scratch. So, if you look past that 0-7 start or 5-15, you'll see just how effective that team was in his system: 42-35 or, more accurately, 37-25 (that's 49 win pace). That's with a team, mind you, that struggled with injuries all year (Wade and Butler both missed time and played hurt for stretches), featured a two rookies and a 2nd year player, and was really on 7-deep (Dwayne Wade/Eddie Jones/Caron Butler /Lamar Odom/Brian Grant/Udonis Haslem/Rafer Alston).
What's more, he's really knowledgeable in X's and O's. His schemes for the Heat were fantastic; he incorporated the triangle, some stuff I recognized from the old UCLA continuity offense, Hannum's double- and triple- screen sets, etc. He coaxed a great defensive team out of a 7-man squad that started 2 SGs, 2 SFs and a PF. He then coaxed an elite, top-5 defensive team out of a squad that featured Damon Jones, Rasual Butler, Christian Laettner, and Michael Doleac as regular rotation players. And he was one rib injury away from going to the Finals and maybe even winning them.
Wade also credits Stan with a lot of his growth as a player. If you look, at the beginning of 05-06, when the Heat were struggling, we were playing Wade off the ball a ton, having him come off baseline screens for catch-n-shoots, playing him in the post, etc, and he was pretty inconsistent with it. But Wade broke through from "ascendant" player to truly, consistently dominant force not by reverting back to an ISO-wing player, but by become consistent with those roles on offense.
IMO he's the best young coach in the game. And what's more, he's funny as hell, real condescending to the print media, really dry and sarcastic, and he's not afraid to play games in the media with the opposing team/fans in a playoff series.
wenn alles klappt bin ich sehr zufriedenn mit van gundy, ich denke er ist ein besserer coach als donovan und wird einige zeit bei uns bleiben, er weiß wie man ein junges team führt!
und jetzt nochmal ein ausschnitt aus einem dwight interview von gestern :
WW: “How in the world did the sticker on the back board not win the slam dunk contest? (when he competed in the contest during the 2007 NBA All-Star Weekend)
DH: “I don’t know…It was a great dunk and I was really hurt by the decision the judges made but you live and you learn. I will be in the dunk contest next year and I have some dunks where they’ll have to give it to me.”