People who don't know what they are doing make things more difficult then they have to be. Lavin pulls crazy stunts with rotation and lineups and calls inappropriate timeouts to show he is doing something. Same thing goes for that silly stunt where he was showing Pointer how to play defense during a timeout last season. He has the media and some fans mesmerized by saying goofy things "hammer to rock". "He is like costco", blah, blah, blah.
Unfortunately those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. It seems as if Lavin is trying to recreate his (personal) failure at UCLA.
"I'm like a terrorist," Lavin told the [ucla] players before the season began. "You don't know what to expect from me, and I've got nothing to lose." He started three lineups over the first 10 games. For being late, talking back in practice and breaking curfew, misdemeanors that went largely unpunished under Harrick, Lavin benched three starters. Six games into the season, with a mediocre 3-3 record, he began phasing out the offense that UCLA had used almost without interruption since the beginning of the Wooden era: the high-post set, a sequence of precise passes that usually led to midrange jump shots.
The attack he installed, the motion offense, would ultimately flatter a team that ... could move and slash to the hoop. But first came those embarrassing losses. Amazingly (for this was UCLA), they didn't seem to matter. Calls, letters and E-mail coming into the athletic department praised Lavin's body language on the bench and his efforts to discipline the team. On talk radio the kibitzers remarked on how the players were no longer talking trash and questioning calls .... Fans and boosters loved the way .... [lavin] sat down starters even though he had virtually no reserves. "
http://si.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1011492/3/index.htmSounds vaguely familiar.