With all due respect to the formidable future Luke Walton has in his profession, this perfect Golden State Warriors start just goes to show how little coaching actually matters.
Quality players in healthy states of mind and body dictate the results of the NBA, bottom line, regardless of how everyone stresses over every little decision the coaches make.
We tend to think of the head coach as the leader of a team by default.
Rarely is that true.
He sets the agenda. He makes decisions on timeout calls and bench substitutions. He most definitely has a heavy burden because there are so many details to address.
But the thing is, however well or poorly those details are tended to is secondary.
With the exception of Gregg Popovich, you can take the head coaches of all the NBA's contenders—David Blatt, Fred Hoiberg, Billy Donovan, Doc Rivers and Steve Kerr—shuffle them up and deal them out to different teams, and the results would not be dramatically different.
Yes, that statement rightly includes Kerr, as sharp as he is and as successful as he was last season in taking ove ...
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