It was a year that almost everybody within the Miami Heat organization had faced their own share of scrutiny this season, however one man began to expierience questions about his job one hour after LeBron James took his talents to South Beach. The questions arose, is Spolestra the right man for the job? would he able to handle the egos of three stars? or would Pat Riley step down as president and come back to the sidelines? These questions fueled when the heat got off to a 9-8 start and turmoil surrounded the team. However it was spolestra that rallied the team in that early time of adversity and got the team to win 21 of their next 22 games.
Spolestra had also made some key defensive adjustments after a Blowout loss in game one of the Eastern Confrence finals in which the bulls shot 47% from the 3 point line and gave up 103 points to the bulls overall. In game two the Heat held the bulls to 15% from the 3 pt arc and made Derrick Rose to 7-23 shooting from the field as the Heat gave up only 75 points to Chicago which gave the Heat homecourt advantage in the series en route to their 2nd confrence championship. More numbers that show Spolestra's skills as a coach is his win improvement each of his 3 years as a coach from +28 to 2008-2009 +4 in 2009-2010 to +11 in 2010-2011.
Spolestra also has the respect of the entire organization as he worked his way up from a video cooardiantor to Head Coach while being the second young coach in the NBA. As this season has provided haste overreactions from the media all season long those who believe Spolestra is not a guy that can coach a potential perennial winner is foolish. As there will be many times of adversity next year for the Heat that will have critics to speculate Spolestra's qualifications for his job, it should be shrugged off like much of this year, an overreaction.
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