Isn’t it amazing what happens to the reputation of coaches when they leave a bad team for a great one?
“Frank Vogel was considered a really good coach, then after two years in Orlando, I guess he got stupid and now he’s a genius again,” sarcastically says another former Magic coach Stan Van Gundy, now an analyst at TNT and NBA-TV. “That pretty much tells you that the media judges coaches strictly on results. Let’s be honest, Frank didn’t just go from great to stupid to great.”
What’s the old college football-coaching mantra?: “It’s not about the Xs and Os, it’s about the Jessies and Joes.