99 run was impressive, but jeff hasn't done much as a coach since then. He clashed with star players, turned francis into a glorified role player while running yao ming to the ground, didn't get along with T-Mac that much neither. Constant 1st round exits in houston and a typical old school coach who likes to control things and trade the players he didn't like. I keep seeing folks mention jeff's name every year when teams search for a coach, why? Teams ain't signing coaches who made it to the finals 20 years ago. This is a whole new league right now.
Now for Stan, Heat ain't that type of franchise that just loves to fire people to take their shine. Look how much trust they put into guys like Spoelstra. When you got Shaq and Wade you are supposed to do great things in eastern conference, they fired him because players didn't like him and the season start was bad like 10-10 or something. Soo Riley took over and did what he had to do.
Dwight was going to have his best years in Orlando no matter who coached, it was his physical prime years, of course he wasn't the same after the back injury he had, and he still couldn't develop a larger arsenal of the offensive moves. Stan did not develop them young guys, by the 07-08 season when stan joined Orlando already had established players like Lewis or Turkoglu who were in their late 20s. The 09 run was a fluke, the Celtics had no KG, you know that cause you are boston fan, right? And they still almost beat magic. No more success after that one finals run, and his stint in Detroit was horrible. Overrated coach, he 60 years old now teaching dudes in their 20s....how Sway?
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