Posted by SlimPack:

wow i thought fratello was doing a good job

He was. They're whining, because they had a tough coach. Sound familiar?

It's a players league, folks. That's why coaches get canned every other week.

the team was 1-7 w/Gasol in the lineup.

Thats from NBA superstar chucky atkins, and rookie of the year nate robinson is that correct?

Alexander Johnson is going to be a stud big man and a bruiser and he was taken with a second round pick, perhaps we should have taken on 20 million in salary to draft him as well......

West had the best draft out of anyone and i love how he is trashed for not knowing what he is doing......Gay, Lowry, Johnson

Reily hasn't been a "hard coach" since he went to Miami................... he picked on that fact of the NBA alongggggggg time ago.

[Edited by - anji on 01-10-2007 10:24 AM]

I was just saying, everyone is all over west for not being a good gm, he trades gasol for young talent and that franchise is in terrific shape for the future.....

And everytime a coach is fired the players always say the same thing

Posted by Solace:

Posted by TMS:

the team was 1-7 w/Gasol in the lineup.

That's the exact reason why you can't make big assumptions on small sample sizes.

that's also the reason why you can't use Gasol being out as an excuse for the team's failure to win games.

One of the reasons why the talent in the league has taken a hit is becasue we don't coach our players anymore.

I coach at a prep school where parents send their kids because they know my style of coaching. The kids all know the only way they are getting into a major college is if they discipline their games. They know I'm hard on the players, but they know I'm fair. When kids leave here they all go onto play for disciplinarian's in college and all seem to overachieve. Most are great students as well. Parents/kids all come back to thank our staff for the lessons we've taught their children. I have not had one graduate in the 3 years I've been here, not return/call on a semi-regular basis. But it's because these kids volunteer for this discipline.

At the highschool level you can't do that. If you don't play someone that isn't trying or isn't listening there is somethign wrong with you. You are a "disciplinarian". It's nonsense. I couldn't take it anymore. It's no coincidence that since our staff left we haven't had one division one athlete leave that school(23 in my 7 years) and have discipline problems and guys fail off every year(one in my tenure). Players crave FAIR DISCIPLINE. It's just that Fair discipline is not allowed in today's game. Football seems to be the last sport where it is allowed. And that's why you get such crappy coaches at the high school level. The "disciplinarians"(which is such a false name) have all been run out of town, and many applaud this as somehow "keeping up with the times". As if lacking discipline is some sort of logical evolution of man. Instead our game has suffered because of it.


[Edited by - Bippity10 on 01-10-2007 12:00 PM]