What "no hero ball" philosophy? I'm being dead serious. Doc allows PP to keep shooting NO MATTER WHAT, same for KG, and he let's RR do w/e he wants to. Then don't get me started on the hero ball end of quarters and games. He also wanted Crawford to shoot all the time and same for LeBo. That's why we need a good offensive coach b/c our offense is a mess... I wonder sometimes if we actually run an offense.
Now, If you said he has "no hero ball" on defense then I'd agree, he is big on team defense.
Want to hear something funny, ImShak. About 6-7 years ago until about 2010, most people complaining about Doc on this site said he was an awful defensive coach who could only coach offensive ball. Now here you are alling Doc a defensive coach without a clue as to how to run an offense.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the system Doc runs is pretty much what he ran 6-8 years ago but the players went from good offensively and horrible defensively(pre Big 3), to dominant defensively(2008-2010) and okay offensively to awful offensively and just very good to great defensively(2011 to present).
I think what we have seen on the court from the team over the years has much much less to do with Doc's coaching and almost everything to do with the healthy players he was given to play.
I think those people 6-8 years ago were right. I give Doc credit for maintaining a top rated defense since Thibodeau left, but we all know Thibs was the mastermind of that 08 defense. On the teams prior to the big three where Doc had found success his team were middle of the road defensively and pretty good offensively. What it looks like is thast Doc has incorporated Thibodeau's defense into his own coaching. It's fair to say Doc is a good defensive coach now, but I don't think that's always been true.
As for the Hero ball, I think Doc has shown he's all for it when it's the right guy shooting. Certain guys have tighter leashes then others. Garnett and Pierce have free reign for example because Doc trusts them to take the right shots, make the right decisions and play within themselves (i.e. take shots they can make).
Disagree with this. Doc;s system before Thibs was pretty much the same blitz the high pick and roll and rotate accordingly, fall back to stop the transition offense, run three point shooters off the three point line and play the open spaces on the weak side looking for the steal or block from that side. He has since Thibs left, instituted a zone as well as a zone and rotating one.
No Doc has run this system since he started coaching. Its Riley's New York Knick defensive system that the Van Gundys and Thibs also use. All are disciples of that system with minor changes here and there. I don't think Thibs brought a system in as he helped refine and coach the defensive system while simultaneously being given excellent young healthy defensive talent(Perkins, Rondo, Powe, TAllen) and excellent veteran talent that suddenly rejuvenated their careers and decided playing in the system and getting a title was more important than scoring lots of points.