What's In a Title
By GJ McRae
Would you consider a coach or player good or great depends on who you ask Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Jerry Sloan, Larry brown to name a few. Considering coaches and players good or great you are never great til you win a title Scottie pippen is great playing seventeen seasons winning six titles but better than Charles Barkley ?, as a player for twenty seasons and no title he would be great to some fans but good to others. Jerry Sloan won over a thousand games and counting Larry Brown similar over a thousand wins and counting he is great cause he has a title Sloan has been chasing a title for some time now, Mike brown coached the cavs for five seasons with a record of 272-138 an NBA finals appearance with the cavs brown was an assistant with the Spurs in 2003 capturing a title making him great. Born in Ohio coaching a Ohio great forming a basketball Camelot which some thought would bring a title to Cleveland, brown would be held responsible for the worst playoff display by any team looking like a wounded dog in headlights versus Boston the team gave up. A stunning regular season record we praised James but criticized brown coaching through the playoffs, one questions remains is brown great or good is James really great or just good how to we measure the two. We can't comparing him to players who won champions in there first few years is crazy James is not a two man player. A two man game produces champions Duncan/Parker , Bryant/Oneal/then gasol, what did he have to work with the chemistry never developed with Oneal or anyone for that matter. Coaches have million dollar chemistry sets to make and create brown lacked creativity and James the knowledge of making something work if he continues this route he could waste his youth as a good player and his old age trying to become a great player.
