Spo's persistence "No matter how old the player is, he can progress through training".
Foreword] Judging from Spo's speech, his lineup experiment will continue to unfold vigorously, so I suggest you calm down.
Generally, at NBA game-day press conferences, head coaches are Xi to simply answer questions, especially in the hours leading up to the game, when they focus more on the issues at hand.
But Heat coach Spo seems to have a maverick point of view, and two topics he likes to talk about often stand out from the rest of the coaches: "old players" and "new skills."
While many teams in the league found that their roster development was stagnant and the style of play of the players in the team began to keep up, so they wanted to turn things around by "renewing" the roster, Spo took the opposite solution - continue to tap into the potential of the players.
In his opinion, no matter how old a player is, a player will only stop improving when the team stops developing the player, or the player is unwilling or unwilling to be developed according to the team's plan.
In a courtside interview on the road in Toronto, he talked about a situation where veterans who looked to have stalled in their careers were only rejuvenated by the Heat, as exemplified by Wade late in his career.
He also refuted a view from the outside world in the past six months: because the Heat's selection of Harkes this year is an older rookie, it is difficult to expect how much room for improvement Hakes can have in the future.
"We've been talking about it [on this] for a long time and we've been working on the development of players from top to bottom, regardless of their age," Spo stressed. ”
Some on the outside believe that the Heat have a proud (arrogant, contemptuous) appearance in the league because of their team culture. To this, Spoo retorted that it was not a fluttering sense of superiority over his own team culture.
There is a misconception that players can only improve when they are young or in the first three years of their careers, which is a narrow notion. We believe that veteran players can continue to get better if they have a growth mindset and are humbly willing to improve. ”
A lot of things happened during Spo's coaching process also confirmed his own statement: McGledder, Winslow and Nunn left the team because they didn't agree with the specific plan developed by the coaching staff, and Butler was expected by Spo to one day be able to play the regular No. 5 position, so Spo designed a set of tactics for him to play the center position, and Richardson's lot of playing time in the fourth quarter of the game this season also came from Spo's expectations.
At the same time, the Heat have been Xi for years to develop older rookies and make them make greater progress, from Norris Kerr, Ercha, Dunroe to now Harkes.
Speaking about Hakes, Spo said: "I think the fact that he played four years of college is definitely going to be seen by a lot of people as a negative thing and even humiliating, but we don't think that because he's a player with the winning qualities. Something you can't deny is that he's played a lot of important games, a lot of tournaments and he has to play well or his UCLA varsity team won't win. ”
As a rookie, you learn how Xi have an impact on a win, and Xi you learn how to do something that doesn't necessarily lead directly to a win, but is still useful. That's what we value. We feel very fortunate that we were able to get him in the draft and we will continue to develop him. Who knows?We'll see if his ceiling is at**.
In fact, it doesn't matter to Spo whether he can see the ceiling of a player, because he simply doesn't accept the "ability ceiling". Perhaps, in his coaching experience, there is nothing more satisfying than seeing the "new tricks" of the Heat's veteran players.
"I think the players understand that when they come to us, it's the expectation, it's the standard, no matter how old you are [you should be hungry to keep improving)," Spo said. I always remember that Dwayne (Wade) was still trying new things in the last year of his career. I think that kept him interested in the game.
So it's different every year. This is the ultimate satisfaction when you keep working hard and improving, rather than conservatively following objective laws or simply succumbing to the notion that you are the ultimate self after a certain number of years. Or if you don't want to get yourself into trouble, sometimes you have to take a step back to take two steps forward.