Posted by Bippity10:

Posted by Panos:

Posted by Bippity10:

Posted by Panos:

Bip, I think you need to come to one of our games and give us pointers...

You don't want me there. I'm guessing that within 15 minutes of watching all the standing around on defense(judging by the photos), all the balls would be put away and we'd be doing defensive drills until the sun went down. And no one is allowed to do defensive drills with a hamburger or a cigarette in their mouths.

Not really. Those photos were misleading. But I'd be glad to get pointers on either side of the ball (drills included).

Okay but this is the way things normally went with the people I coached in high school.

Day one: Deathly afraid of me because of the stories they've heard(which are normally exaggerated. Or are they?)
Day two: They want me out of their lives
End of month one: They plan my death.
End of year one: They tune me out and actually start moving forward with their plans of killing me
End of year two: They realize that they have to listen in order to survive, but still hate me
End of year three: They begin to tolerate me and get really good at doing impressions of me
Middle of year four: They listen to every word I say as if it was gospel, but they still hate me. Impressions of me are perfected
End of year four: They love me, and want to spend all their time reminiscing about years one through four. The impressions are hilarious, all the yelling I did turns out to be funny. And the thanks I receive are endless.

Now that I normally only have players for one or two years I have to condense all my yelling into a shorter time frame. That's a lot of yelling in a short amount of time. Most people can't handle it :). Now imagine if I had to condense all that yelling into one day of pickup games. You'd be deaf.



[Edited by - bippity10 on 06-08-2007 4:45 PM]

[Edited by - bippity10 on 06-08-2007 4:54 PM]

Bip, that analysis is Bullshyat and that definitely doesn't reflect me. I would make great impressions after 1 day.

Posted by BasketballJones:

Posted by Bippity10:


I've had a few guys on my team that were NBA ready(in terms of skills) the moment they came to the first practice. They can handle, jump through the roof and are absolutely unstoppable offensively. Yet as good as they are offensively, that's how bad they are defensively. They have absolutely no understanding of how to play the team game. Anytime you try to explain to them(even in the nicest of tones, which is how Bip normally starts) they think you are trashing their game. You are an adversary as a coach from the get go. It's so frustrating. These kids normally go on to play at some small college, scoring 20+ pts per game and never being heard from again. And they can't figure out why.

I'm shocked and disappointed that you were allowed to continue to abuse those poor kids that way.

Something is seriously wrong that they were not able to get you fired.

(or were they?)



[Edited by - basketballjones on 08-06-2007 18:10]

Put it this way, I left because my original athletic director quit. The new guy was an emotional, touchy, feely type person and did not support his coaches like the prior one. He cared about kids current feelings more than he cared about the end results. He thought the kids were fragile helpless creatures that needed to be nurtured and loved instead of challenged and helped to become men. It was just two different philosophies that did not mesh. I needed to go to a place where the players that came there actually volunteered to play for me. That way I didn't have to explain myself to anyone. Just teach the kids how to play basketball. The kids that volunteer to play for me actually have the exact different opinion. They thought I would be a lot worse than I really am. Now I'm at peace with all my sarcasm, wit and occassional yelling and plan to do more of it.

Physically the players keep getting bigger and faster but the players from the 80's and early 90's seemed to have better intelligence and team work. I think the Larry Bird, Jordan, Magic, Shaq, Patrick, Hakeem days were the pincale of recent decades probably of of all time

Pearl Jam > White Stripes
Dre > Lil' __________ (fill in the blank)

Posted by Panos:

Posted by BasketballJones:

Posted by Panos:


Yeah, well, not sure either of us had 4 years, but I've survived on the court with raw skills and pure hustle, so any pointers on my game would by extremely appreciated.

You don't want Bip coaching you. He's from the Larry Brown School of coaching. First he breaks you down. Then, well, he breaks you down some more.

Dude, he doesn't have to break me down. I don't have an ego when it comes to ball.
Other things, sure.

Give me 10 guys with no egos, that hustle their bizzalls off, and I will give you a winning team. Unless they stink of course. Than I want 10 other guys.