Fotis St wrote:CharityStripe34 wrote:Fotis St wrote:
Well don't worry about that. Our players except Giannis as it is right now are all role players and we have only one superstar Giannis who is the most coachable Superstar in basketball. Jrue , Khris will fit fine in his system cause they are coachable too.
What does "NBA vet" mean exactly ? We were full of them last 2 seasons and they all choked including our Coach. Well Obradovic doesn't choke, he is like the Kobe of Coaches.
So **** vets .... get me winners
Modern day American athletes would NEVER accept a coach like Obradovich screaming his head off at them like a coked-up Bobby Knight, no matter how brilliant of a coach he may be (I think he is). End of story.
But I have seen it working , multiple times. The Players just love him at the end, cause they understand he was pushing them to become the best they can be. He is like Coach Carter ( have you seen the movie? ). He is that special. If modern NBA athletes are playing only on contract years and having pride without winning anything all the way, I would prefer Obradovic to handle them and clear this team from garbage from top to bottom. I have seen it with Obradovic, I have seen it in soccer in the Greek National Team winning the Europe Cup in 2004 with a German coach that excluded from the team 2 cocky players (Georgatos & Zikos) whose contracts were probably the 2 best in the whole team, playing international. He actually cut them and we won the European Cup because of coaching decisions on players and tactics.
While Europeans and Americans are very similar, there are also major differences. I wouldn't use a Hollywood movie or the Greek National Football Team circa 2004 Euro as an example, as by 2008 that team was garbage and Rehagel bolted.
The closest comparison to Obradovic would probably be Pop in San Antonio (arguably greatest ever) and even Pop's elite level coaching and San Antonio's steady brilliance as an organization couldn't keep Kawhi Leonard in town. I guess if Gianni would be willing to be coached hard the rest of the team would follow suit, but generally speaking American athletes wouldn't respond to him telling players to hit the showers at halftime and don't come back. It would make for some damn great television, though, just to see the Sports Media hold town-hall sessions about his coaching.