Quote:Theres the $64,000 question. 

 

The best coaches design around what they have, not vice versa. 

 

Only in the short term (as in when they first arrive and only have what's available to them that are leftovers from the previous regime.)  The first year is the chicken salad year.  You get by with what you have the best you can.

 

After that, you add players constantly that you expect to fit your system.

 

No coach makes wholesale changes or overhauls to what they have built over years and years of trial and error.  They make subtle wrinkles.  It's a gradual evolution to create a system.

 

That's the essence of quality.  Process management (continuously refine the process) and demanding quality inputs (purge, replace, and develop talent.)

 

No coach is "stuck" with its roster (if the GM and coach are working together as they should, if they aren't that franchise is doomed.)  Guys that don't fit are jettisoned and better players are put in their place.

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