Respect Erik Spoelstra

He's never been named Coach of the Year, and he's rarely mentioned among the top in the game. He deserves to be. This Heat success doesn't happen without an exceptional coach.

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

Rating coaches is hard. Determining how much impact individual coaches have on their teams’ success or failure is hard. There are fine lines between player trust and abdication of responsibility, between brilliant madness and just plain madness. There’s a theory floating around, referenced on occasion in the discourse, tha…