Are there specific thing you see in analytics that the team should be doing more of?
Nothing specific, it just seems to me that in interviews I’ve read his attitude around the whole thing is very dismissive.
From this year:
”I don’t need some handy piece of paper to tell you that has to happen. Now, it’s nice to see that and say, ‘Oh, yeah, good, thank you.’ But you kind of know all this stuff already.”
“Canes captain Jordan Staal said he rarely looks at the analytics, noting players “understand the game they’ve played and the extra stuff, we let the (analytics) guys figure that out.”
To be fair that article does go on to say he does use them, sparingly.
From 2018, I would imagine some things have changed in his approach since then but still some decent insight into some of his thoughts and methods as a coach:
In an exclusive interview with WRAL's Jeff Gravley, new Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour reveals what areas he is still learning on the job and why teaching X's and O's won't make a huge difference in wins and losses.
www.wralsportsfan.com
"I really do think it's not the X's and O's,"
Brind'Amour added. "The coaches in this league, they know how to coach. They know the game, but it's the little things. How do I get Jeff to be the best Jeff? How do I get Joe to be the best Joe? Well, you have to know them. You've got to figure it out, and that's where I'm learning."
This team could sure as shit use some X’s and O’s right about now.
This quote also maybe explains why he favors certain players. He either likes or doesn’t like them on a personal level. At least that’s how I read it to a degree.
If he were using analytics he wouldn’t be saying things like he did in The Athletic article about how moving Martinook up to the 1st line works almost every time. Maybe he’s referring to the guys playing better the next game? If there’s someway or somewhere to see that data I would love to know how many games the Hurricanes came back and won by moving Martinook to the first line.
The tools are there use them. When I put the deck boards on my new deck last week I didn’t trim them flush with a hand saw, I grabbed the circular saw.
Anyway, I just think the guy is hardheaded and it’s going to bite him and or the team in the ass at some point. Doesn’t mean he’s a bad coach, there likely isn’t a better motivator in the league, but motivation can only carry a team so far and the players wise up to that at some point. I personally think he would do much better with some assistants that: A. weren’t longtime friends of his. And B. Maybe took a more intellectual approach to the game. Timmy and Daniels weren’t exactly the cerebral types during their playing days.
Hopefully this is a huge jinx post, I’ll look like a huge dipshit, and they beat the pants off BOS here in a few hours!
