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Originally Posted by motorcrosser
Why would a professional, millionaire player need a coach to tell him to shoot the puck a bit quicker? Is there no accountability to the player to improve things himself?
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I feel like the arguments brought up by those who deflect the blame from the coach, and on to the players completely dismiss the purpose of the coaching staff. There's a reason that head coaches get paid big bucks, and obviously have such a high turnover if a team isn't being successful. They do have an influential impact on the performance capability of a roster.
Within this own franchise, the two most recent
successful playoff runs came from coaches that got the team to perform well above the sum of it's parts. If coaching has a little of impact as those say it does, then those rosters themselves were the main reason they did as good as they did rather than the coach being the biggest impact. There's a reason why certain head coaches are critically acclaimed and keep getting hired by multiple teams, while others never head coach again. They are an important piece of a teams potential.