Are Coaches Really Necessary in Today's NBA?

I know that coaches must do a lot more than what we see during games, because most of them don't really do jackshit in realtime.  Well they do decide who plays and how many minutes, I guess.  And it's also cool seeing them throw a fit, like your boy Mike Malone turning red last night.  But if the NBA game has become such that dudes are chucking up 3-pointers at will, then that begs the question - do we really need coaches for that shit?

Let's take what Luka did last night for instance.  This is what I was talking about just as recently I think as the last post, how players are now taking the easy way out instead of trying to work or strategize their way towards the basket:

And the really fukedup thing about it, that makes these superstars of today almost uncoachable is that oh shit, that shot almost deadass went in.

The newer, looser NBA is faster than the days of old, but I beg to differ that it's more exciting.  Instead, I would say it's more smh-ing.  Watching the Splash Brothers helm an offense that shoots more threes and twos is a thing of beauty, because most of their shots go in.  But watching other teams at times when they're not hot continuing to shot threes anyway, even to where doing so costs them games, sometime I be thinking to myself like 'why didn't the coach stop that shit?'

CONCLUSION

If this were the 1990s and Michael Jordan hoisted up a make-it or break-it three-pointer from almost the halfcourt line with 3 seconds left and at least one of his teammates open, I think Phil Jackson would honestly ask him like 'damn Mike, why'd you do that?'  Now if you say that to a star player, the hot seat.  So it's like for some of teams, maybe the NBA could get creative and start robots on the sideline instead of a coach, like R2-D2 instead of Jason Kidd type shit.  You know, just for fun, since nobody else gives AF these days.  But then the robot would probably calculate that it's more efficient to penetrate and get to the rim - unless you have a really, really reliable shooter - and then it's like back to square one.