So with that as background for the uninitiated imagine my distress at reading this headlinein AllUCanHeat:
Is Coach Spoelstra too volatile with the lineups?
As you can also imagine my answer without knowing anything Spo had done this year and without even reading the article was "Yes." Then I read the article.
The Miami Heat haven’t really had a consistent starting lineup this season...
While a ton of the volatility in the starting lineup has had to do with the general volatility created by the coronavirus pandemic along with health and safety protocols, some of it seems to be outside of that realm. Well, perhaps, as you could look at each move as a butterfly effect of another move that was forced due to the pandemic.
No. Now, I don't understand the tinkerer archetype well but I know this: A person who is a tinkerer in his soul will find a reason to tinker, he doesn't have to go looking for fucking pandemics to justify his tinkering. I exist, therefore I tinker. The tinkerer enabler says this:
The short answer, for me, is no. I believe that he is tinkering to see what he has.
Oh my God dude. He has the same goddamned core thing he had at the beginning of last year. It's been road-tested, it road-tested really good, all the way to the FUCKING FINALS! He knows what he has! That is just BULL. SHIT.
In a lot of situations, it’s a direct compensation for an absence due to health and safety protocols, but in others, he’s simply coaching.
That's half right. He is coaching. That's what he does, coaches. And coaching to him means tinkering.
So, again, I don’t think that he’s been too volatile. I think he’s coaching and trying to figure some things out.
Could he, perhaps, be a little more consistent? Maybe.
Okay, enough. Could I be more aggravated? Perhaps.
