Was never a great bench coach in my opinionand really Failed to utilize what was an enormous amount of NBA level talent. I believe between the 1979 and 1980 teams he had many players who had lengthy NBA careers includinG Laimbeer, Woolridge, Jackson, Paxson, Hanczlik, Tripucka. 81-84 he had one good recruiting class (82) and occasional stars Rivers, Royal, Ellis but had a really slacked off on recruiting elite players. I I think he got very lazy and full of himself by this point. At the end before the plug was pulled he was down to recruiting the likes of the Ross twins. I think a great coach in the 70s could've had us in the final 4 lots of years instead of just 1978