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Pitino's name is always mentioned in the NBA when a coach is fired. He is a good coach but he is a COLLEGE coach. When he coached the Knicks the times were different players listned and responded Todays players Play for ME ME ME Pitino hates ME ME ME. Not saying impossible but Highly unlikely he would jump ship to the nba
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well i think that coaching in the NBA is the best of the best. If you can get NBA players to respond to you, then i think that is a very great accomplishment. Dont get me wrong, K and Pitino and Donovan and Roy Williams and Self are all great coaches, but I will not put them in the same sentence as Phil Jackson or Gregg Popovich because they have won numerous championships at the greatest level. Not only do you have to deal with large egos, but you are up against the best of best every night. Coaching in the NBA is the greatest challenge, a bigger challenge than NCAA basketball. I dont understand why Coach K or other great NCAA coaches coach in the NBA. I know they love where they are at and i know they all are in great situations, but wouldnt you want to compete at the highest level, especially if you are successful year in and year out at the NCAA level. Wouldn't you want to step up and go bigger?
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well i think that coaching in the NBA is the best of the best. If you can get NBA players to respond to you, then i think that is a very great accomplishment. Dont get me wrong, K and Pitino and Donovan and Roy Williams and Self are all great coaches, but I will not put them in the same sentence as Phil Jackson or Gregg Popovich because they have won numerous championships at the greatest level. Not only do you have to deal with large egos, but you are up against the best of best every night. Coaching in the NBA is the greatest challenge, a bigger challenge than NCAA basketball. I dont understand why Coach K or other great NCAA coaches coach in the NBA. I know they love where they are at and i know they all are in great situations, but wouldnt you want to compete at the highest level, especially if you are successful year in and year out at the NCAA level. Wouldn't you want to step up and go bigger?wow, you've been drinking that nba kool aid for too long. if anything, in the nba you coach less. they might draw up an inbounds play or two for the playoffs but that's about it. the nba players have all the talent in the world but offense in the nba is unorganized chaos. defense is at zero in the nba too. you could get a monkey to do what nba coaches do. phil jackson and gregg popovich?? are you crazy? they got lucky enough to have a superstar player on their team for their entire careers. take away kobe, jordan, and duncan from those teams and they would never even sniff the playoffs. college coaches are lucky to keep their superstar player for 2 seasons.
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it just seems like their is no defense played bc nba players are that good. How many players on D1 NCAA teams make it to the NBA and play for 5-10 years and start. The percentage is way low. Why? B/C IT IS VERY HARD TO MAKE IT TO THE NBA. It seems like their is no defense played because IT IS VERY HARD TO GUARD NBA PLAYERS. NBA Coaches must mesh their players and buy into their schemes and philosophies. Your ignorant remarks show everyone that you obviously dont play a lot of organized basketball or you don't play against good basketball players. Your on here posting too much (as evidenced that you have been here for almost 2 years and your a top 1,000 poster, which is not something to proud of or brag about). If you take away kobe, you still have shaq. Take away jordan, you still have pippen and rodman. I believe that the bulls did make the playoffs when Jordan left to play baseball. So not sniffing the playoffs, that also shows your lack of basketball knowledge. And with parker and ginobili, the spurs would still make the playoffs. And why is that players leave after 1 or 2 years?? CUZ THEY WANT TO PLAY IN THE NBA. If they didnt want to, then they would stay all 4 years.
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I like college ball a lot more than the NBA, mainly because of the UofL Cards, but I also like the NBA and those guys do play defense and the coaches do actually coach. The talent level in the NBA is so much higher than college, it seems like when there is an open shot in the NBA from almost anywhere, its going in, you don't see that in college. The guards and forwards handle the ball so well its hard to press and that also makes defense look bad. The best NBA teams play defense and that's why they are the best and teams like Denver get swept in the 1st round. For all you NBA hater's that like college ball give the NBA a look, especially now in the playoffs, you will be amazed with how much better the players are.
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Since:Aug 25, 2006
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im not saying the nba doesn't play defense at all, but it gets bad at times. i keep seeing this over and over. someone sets a pick and the defenders don't switch men and the guy gets to the basket for an uncontested layup. or they don't get back on d after a score and the other team launches it across midcourt for an easy lay in. in college, the coach would have yanked those defenders out. that's just being lazy and these guys are supposed to be the best and getting paid millions??
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Your on here posting too much (as evidenced that you have been here for almost 2 years and your a top 1,000 poster, which is not something to proud of or brag about)
your jealous of my 1k club? don't worry, young padawan, with much training you can get there too. i post on here at night while i work, what's your excuse?
Take away jordan, you still have pippen and rodman. I believe that the bulls did make the playoffs when Jordan left to play baseball.
i'll see your 20 and raise you 10. i think rodman left the same time jordan did and i don't think the bulls went to the playoffs without jordan. prove me wrong because i am too lazy to look it up.
And with parker and ginobili, the spurs would still make the playoffs. And why is that players leave after 1 or 2 years?? CUZ THEY WANT TO PLAY IN THE NBA. If they didnt want to, then they would stay all 4 years.
oh yea, the spurs do great when duncan is out. hahahaha. stop being naive, the players don't leave for the nba because of the prestige, it's because of the money.
by the way, orkee the rapist, my sisters best friend was raped and had her throat slit. if you feel that the name "rapist" best suits you then i have nothing more to say to you.
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Since:Mar 20, 2008
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There are valid points here to be made by all. It is hard to see the defense in the Nba because of the short shot clock and the quality of the players. There are more plays set up for individuals in the nba rather than team plays. And because of the sheer number of games and minutes, players do take plays and even games off. Back to back nights of road games will do that for you. I think there is good coaching at both levels. In college, it's more about teaching maturity and fundamentals, in the NBA it's about buying into a system. Almost any good NBA coach can draw up a play a the end of a half or game because that is where their games are won. In the regular season, if you watch the NBA, you'll see that the score at any point in the game except the last five minutes is almost meaningless because no gap is too big to close. The best NBA coaches also learn to keep their stars happy. If they don't, they lose them to free agency or they lose their attention to the money. And in both college and the pros, having talent is the difference between an elite coach and an average coach. In college, you constantly have to replace your most talented players via recruiting, in the NBA you try to keep your best players together and provide continuity. This is what sets Popovich, Jackson, Larry Brown, et all apart. They know x's and o's and they know players and their teams play defense in the fourth quarter when it counts. And I don't think you all need to attack each other personallly to make a point. ewinter is one of my favorite posters both from the quantity and quality of his posts. Have some manners or post somewhere else.
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