"I Did It for the Defense" - Chuck Daly's "Dumb" Trade or so They Thought
https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/coaching/signs-coaching-genius.html The late Chuck Daly was a Hall of Fame coach. He was the Head Coach of the original Dream Team that won the Gold Medal in the 1992 Olympics and guided the Detroit Piston "Bad Boys" to back to back NBA Championships. When he took over the Pistons, they were not a very good team . Over the first couple of years he started to mold what has become one of the legendary NBA eras. Drafting Joe Dumars, he showed a unique eye as to how to fill the parts of his team that would fit together and create a winning team. Daly was always a defense first coach . His teams defended with tenacity as they started to climb the NBA ladder. While their offensive production remained largely the same, defensively they got better and better, often ranking in the top 5 in most NBA defensive stats . However, they just couldn't get over the hump. They became a perennial playoff team, but not a championship contender . They did