Good article on Juwan’s coaching ability from Heat beat writer
https://www.fivereasonssports.com/voices/heat-cant-afford-to-lose-juwan-howard-twice/
Thought this article was worth sharing with the board. Heat beat writer Greg Sylvander shares Juwan’s exceptional ability to relate to and develop players as well as his positive effect on the organization as a whole. He goes as far as saying that Juwan should be successor to Spoelstra as HC.
Five reasons sports sure wants to get Michigan fanbase clicks, huh?
to be fair this article was from a month ago
This was a reaction to Juwan being a candidate for the Lakers job.
Does it highlight his head coaching accomplishments, ability to recruit good players and his offensive schemes that are ahead of the game?
Wow. How is it possible to dislike Juwan Howard this much.
Nothing about this situation is ideal. We get it. It is a very legitimate argument to make that Manuel should have been more proactive about contacting other candidates after he knew Beilein was interviewing, but this is over the top.
I don’t dislike him, I don’t like the lack of experience in pretty much everything at the college level and everyone is easily to dismiss actual D1 head coaches that have experience.
So whom do you want us to hire?
I get the Juwan thing, but complete unproven commodity. I’d be alright with Cooley or Yacklich at least they have ncaa experience.
Why hasn’t Lavell Jordan been brought up more often? He was the first one I thought of in this search.
Why is Juwan (who's been an NBA assistant six years) unproven but Yaklich isn't?
Cooley and Jordan do have head coaching track records, but they're not terribly impressive, Jordan's especially. Do you want to hire a guy who has a losing career record?
NBA is a players league. It's very, very different for a coach compared to NCAA which is a coach/teachers league.
Juwan certainly might be good, but Yak's experience and track record in the NCAA is a better signal about his likelihood to succeed as a college HC than Juwan's experience.
Jordan is the Brady Hoke hire.
Edit: Oops
Howard has more experience than Yaklich
Jordan is 48-55 as a head coach. What about that makes you want him?
Agree. If Jordan was blowing it up as a HC things would be different. If indeed its Howard, he needs to surround himself with a great staff and try to retain some existing pieces.
If he were blowing up, we would have hired him last week. Jordan struggling at Butler is what opened this wide open.
His experience isn't as relevant as Yak's though.
Coaches with college experience who have been "dismissed" as good candidates for U of M job:
Ed Cooley
Lavell Jordan
Porter Moser
Coaches with college experience who have NOT been "dismissed" as good candidates for U of M job:
Brad Stevens
Billy Donovan
Chris Beard
Nate Oates
See if you can find a difference between the two groups
You might wanna Google Porter Moser before embarrassing yourself further.
What exciting tidbits will a Google search reveal about him? I know he's barely over .500 in his career.
I think that 4roses was trying to make a point about race. The "google that" response was jbrandi's attempt at saying Porter Moser is a white guy who looks like Ed Harris.
Actually I was not trying to make a point about race, though I can see why some may think that was the case. I was responding to the UM_Ftown claim that "everyone is easily to dismiss actual D1 head coaches that have experience". To be more clear, people are only easily dismissing D1 head coaches with poor experience (Cooley, Jordan, Moser). Coaches who have good experience as D1 head coaches (the second list) are not being easily dismissed.
Yes. The second has three who have coached(HC) in title games. None in the first list have done that.
You are a real man of genius.
Well that's just downright racist.
I'm amazed at the lack of vision some of the fan base expects the AD to have. If in three years, Howard was coaching successfully either in college or the NBA and Michigan was struggling to make the NIT, this same faction would be talking about what a terrible job Warde did with the hire.
Who did this?
Matt St Jean
Olivier Saint-Jean.
Olivia Newton-John
Fig Newtons
(that’s how this works, right)
Blast from the past
Whoever did it was pretty lazy - they forgot to update the body of the article. It still says he's a Miami assistant.
So who is going to coach the offense?
If Howard comes, this is the (literally) million dollar question. Or at least, something like it. His offensive preference is totally unknown. And it will be a huge factor in what the team will be next year and in the years going forward.
I expect good defense. I am optimistic, though not sold, on good recruiting. Can Michigan make baskets?
Good defense if Yacklich stays.
How would recruiting be optimistic if he’s literally never done it?
I’m still not seeing how Juwan would be a good hire.
recruiting optimism = ability to sell
compelling story? check
noted players coach (article above)? check
engaging personality? check
only thing he cant easily point to is his x and o. he can reference player development by point to bam and whiteside's development at the heat
able to make direct eye contact with nearly all recruits without tilting his head upwards? check
Juwan was the most charismatic player out of all fab five members. He'll easily reach JB's level of recruiting.
That is a close call. I think an argument could be made for four of the five members taking that title.
Charisma is not the strongest seller for a recruiter. See: Nick Saban. Satan has the charisma of a pothole.
Success on the field/court and a track record of putting college players in the pros is what sells (also money sells but that's probably not an option). Juwan's NBA experience will probably carry early recruiting decently well since the next best thing to actually putting guys in the pros is knowing what it takes to be a pro. And then if he has on-court success, he should recruit at a very high level.
JB was a good recruiter his last 7-8 years. He did about as well as he could have cleanly by getting a steady stream of four stars.
We will likely play a much different style of basketball than we did under Beilein. Teske and Castleton will be used in a far different way than expected and will very likely be played at the same time. Post entry passes will likely be a regular feature of our offense. We won't have 6'4 power forwards and will actually attempt to get offensive rebounds. We will likely go to the free throw line much more often than we did, (and hopefully Howard can actually teach our players how to shoot them). I do expect our offense to be still be very deliberate and calculated, much like Howard played.
Even more so than our offense, I could see an adjustment period with our shorts. I don't think Juwan is going to be onboard with these dick-huggers the team has been rocking. He may very well take it as a personal affront and could actually demand some uniform autonomy as part of his deal.
I don't think any of those things are sure to be true. I'm sure we'll post up more than we did before, because posting up once is more than never posting up, but Juwan has been an assistant in the NBA for several years now and the NBA has abandoned the post up more than college. Miami almost never posts up. They use their Cs purely as roll guys, similar to Teske.
Howard is not the Heat's head coach. Unless he just farms the offense out to an assistant, I think you will certainly see our offense gravitate more toward the interior because that is what Howard knows. Frankly, how else were we going to score next year? Simpson hook? Simpson from deep? Teske from deep?
I'm saying that I'm sure he knows more than that. He's spent the last several years being an assistant/player coach under Spoelstra. Surely he knows more than posting up by now. Plus, big men are integral parts of PnR offenses, so he could very well be very good at teaching at least one end of that.
If our offense is dependent on Teske post ups, then we may as well have hired Cooley. If he can keep Bajema or Wilson, get Cumberland, then we have plenty of options to spread the floor. If this years offense isn't based on a Z-Teske PnR combo then it is not playing to the strengths of this team.
I'd be shocked if Juwan goes to post offense because he has been in the NBA for years and have seen the evolution of NBA offense to go with analytics. Expect his offense to be closer to NBA style where it's 4 out offense with 5 as the roll man and more wing players initiating PnR if they have a mismatch.
We don't have the personnel for that next year. As it stands right now, we barely have "five" next year, let alone "five out." I guess it will depend on what players he can still get this recruiting cycle, if he does take the job. Step 1 should be trying to get Wilson back on board. That was a significant hit.
um...What's wrong with having your dick hugged?
Curious peoples thoughts. Reports say it’s Yak or Howard. Do we think this, or a under the radar guy still maybe out there? Smart, Jordan, Martin.
These are the top 2. I’m thinking Warde doesn’t want to pay any buyout money, as he might need it to get out of playing some football games so we can waste our time playing fucking Notre Dame again.
My guess is there’s a candidate out there who has an extravagant price/buyout that Wards already knows of, and if neither Yak nor Howard seem like a good enough option, the call will be made to pay for said coach.
My completely uninformed gut says that Nate Oats is that coach.
BREAKING NEWS: AZBlue is EXPECTED to grab lunch sometime this afternoon out in Los Angeles. Experts are not sure if it will be fish tacos or a sandwich.......story coming soon.
(Glad the “Hello” post was deleted but unsure why the Cooley thread with similar dubious sourcing was allowed to run wild last night..)