Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is not known for being a quiet individual and as such, he is always a go-to following big NBA-related news. Recently, he was asked about the Houston Rockets firing head coach Kevin McHale. Cuban did not take the opportunity to mock the Rockets (though I’m sure he wanted to) but instead, he spoke at length about the difficulty of hitting it big with a good coach, via Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe:
So I’ve said it before, the hardest thing for an NBA owner to do is hire a coach. The easiest thing to do is fire a coach. The reason it’s hard to hire a coach, coaches are great at date-face, they know exactly what your weaknesses are and they know exactly how to sell to those weaknesses, so it’s really difficult to pick it right and it’s 90 percent luck. If the hardest thing to find is a good coach, you marry him, you put a ring on it.
This is some great insight on just how difficult it can be to hire a good coach. There are not a ton of coaches in the league right now who are unmistakable “great” which goes to show what a strenuous process it can be. The Mavericks have certainly hit it big with Rick Carlisle but not many franchises can say the same. The Rockets will look to have the same sort of luck.
