If actual experience is valuable, then so is Joe

Joe Kleine played against the very best big men of his era, both in college and in the NBA. His battles against Olajuwon were one of the classic matchups of the old SWC. He knows the methods and techniques the great ones used. How good a coach he is I could not say, except that Shields has kept him around for several years. Players these days won't remember him as a player, but they can very easily be informed that he played for 15 years in the NBA, scored 4600 points and had 3900 rebounds. That ought to mean something.