I think managing the egos in the NBA would be tough. If Shaq told me he wanted to check into the game with 4 fouls in the 2nd quarter, I'd say "Go ahead, big fella".

I agree in-game decisions in the NFL would be the most challenging.

I don't think a whole lot of coaching goes on during an NHL game.

There is lots of strategy by a manager in a close National League baseball game.

It's a fun topic, irregardless.

The lesson of this playoffs is that coaching matters.

You think Pat Riley vs. Avery Johnson was the difference in the NBA Finals?

Oh, yeah, roscoe36. I don't have to look back at outtakes of Shaq. I remember it well. I was such a Piston fan that I did not like him, but I do realize what a power he was.

His favorite thing in those days was trying to tear down any rims that he could, and he was successful quite often in doing that. He delayed many a game while new bankboards were installed, and cost sponsors many a buck.

He was special and right from the start, he got special treatment. He ran over so many people they started stationing motorcycle cops around the floor .

In size, Dwight will not compete with Shaq, and I hope he does not get that big and cumbersome. He is, I believe, 7' 275, right now and I do not want him much bigger. Same for Darko. He is about 7 and a half inch, which is OK to increase a little, but I would not like to see him much over the 250 or 255 he is now.

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To me, far more impressive was the quickness of early Shaq.

Of course I do. Riley made that team worse on paper then beat us. Riley kept two teams out of the paint in 7-game series with Antoine Walker and Jason Williams in the starting lineup. Everybody's talking about the new rules BS, but the above is pretty remarkable. And that's not even counting how different our team was in the playoffs -- how we went from a defensive monster with a knack for crunch-time execution to a sieve and a crunch-time turnover factory. How we went from more than the sum of our parts to less, how last year's adversity was handled privately and productively and how this year's became a public %%%%%fest...

i don't think riley was the difference in the pistons series. i think flip was coaching handicapped. his best move that series would have been to give ben wallace limited minutes. riley simply didn't check ben so whoever was checking ben basically played zone. that destroyed rips curls, tay's and cb post up game and ben's confidence. late in games when riley didn't want us to score he would just foul ben and that's basically a turnover. also you couldn't defend wade under the new rules especially with the malcontent refusing to give effort on the zone defense.

Riley was the difference for the Heat period. In all 4 rounds.

He's a master motivator along the same lines of Phil Jackson. Motivating and teaching was something that Daddy Rich did well also.

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i'll say 6-10

I say 15-20 range.If this is the deepest draft in recent years so they say,whoever they are.We move up or we add 2 pieces for the future that can come in and impact or spend valuable time playing in the D-league. Adding for the future while trying to win now.As long as we don't take on full rebuild or drop too many steps backward.