Im confused…why not?

its one thing if the fact is he cant teach anyone anything, but say he was a good teacher in general, if he knows what a big man is supposed to do, why not have him teach the players.

post moves i hear are those skills that are just hard to pick up. Like pure pg skills. You can either do it within you first few years of entering the pros, or you cant. And if you cant, you probably will never learn. Sure you might develop a baby hook, but thats not the same of being labeled a post move guy. For example tyson chandler; the guy never had a post move when he came into the league, and even now when he is so effective, he still has no post move. Instead he uses his physical ability (and great looks from his pg) to get in position to dunk the ball. Aside from that he is just a rebounder and shot blocker.

Then we have guys like hawes and gray. They are the exact opposites, they lack hte athletic tools in order to be great, but they are skilled in the post. I honestly believe those guys, who have the skill but not the strength are the better projects. Most likely they can hit the gym and add enough weight to utilize thier moves accurately. And example is like like a pau gasol. Pau is probably one of the softest post players i have ever seen. But he has enough strength and athletic ability, though its not mindblowing, to get position, hold it, and then utilize his tremendous skill to get a bucket. On the other hand we have a bynum, who has the athletic ability to force his way into the post, but when he comes across the shaqs and the duncans and the howards, well then he is powerless.

Speaking of which, shaq was always so dominant because of his incredible size and strength, mixed with a nice array of post moves and his “im gonna dunk the ball after i get past you” attitude. He didnt go straight up for dunks, he would often give fakes and shakes, spins and spin fakes and then find the opening and dunk the ball. Howard Posses tremendous athletic ability, but also a good know how of post moves, its why he poses the best chance of being a dominant player other than lebron.

besides the fact that these guys are pro basketball players, who should already have mastered the fundamentals, it’s the process of using those fundamentals and executing them at the highest of levels.

That is what a big man coach can help – not by teaching tricks or gimmicks – but by instructing these kids on what exactly they should be doing and how quickly they should be doing it.

I’m not sure if Paxson posed the question to Vinny in his interview about his plan for developing the big men in the post, but he certainly should have. Assuming he did, what could Vinny possibly have said at that point in the game that wouldn’t just be a standard generalization?

He had no real knowledge of the individual players’ games besides what he saw from up in the suite in PHX and even then, TT and Noah are both extremely young. So an answer of “We’re going to take these kids and bring them to the next level and with Derrick/BG/Kirk’s skills they should be open a lot.”

A coach with a rigid philosophy that refuses to adapt will get fired eventually. Skiles had a good system in place. But he didn’t adapt when the team got younger and more athletic up front.

I think Flip Saunders is probably the best guy out there that can get any team to play a solid offensive game. He’s a bad in-game tactician, but at this point the Bulls need guidance, not a playoff general.

Arenas, Bibby, and White Chocolate all thrived as PG’s in it. Deng and Thomas could have a field day as cutters w/ Noah passing from the high post and BG sniping from behind the arc.

http://www.nba.com/video/channels/nba_tv/2009/01/07/nba_20090107_on_court.nba/index.html

(or that old fallback: the ‘dolt’ argument)