This is a pointless post intended to bump this thread up higher and keep it circulating longer because pants hates it.

Oh, and I love this thread.

AusWolf wrote:
Oh, and I love this thread.


I'm sooooo tempted to just lock it.

College Wolf wrote:
AusWolf wrote:
Oh, and I love this thread.


I'm sooooo tempted to just lock it.

With great power comes great responsibility.

Apparently they are talking in the locker room about Dean Cooper helping with team defense:

"Defensively, we are going to have to be on the same page...we don't want them to be in the paint scoring baskets, we want them to be on the outside...We have a new assistant coach here from Houston that was 2nd last year in team defense behind Boston and I'm sure he has some things that can help us add and tweak our defensive mechanics to help us become a better defensive team...I think offensively, we will be there, but you don't want the score every night to be 120 to 121..."

Gomes Gab - August 22, 2008 - by Mike Trudell (audio)
"Like many of his teammates, Ryan Gomes spent the week working out at Target Center."
http://www.nba.com/timberwolves/news/gomes_gab_080822.html

Like it or not, defense wins championships. Enough said.

Bump

Stay on top, oh great thread.

www.suite101.com/article.cfm/basketball_spotlight/113795

for Pants & MMaland, especially...

"NBA defense has reached an unprecedented level of sophistication. Former All-Star Hersey Hawkins says, "I can think about my first year in the league and how detailed scouting reports have become about stopping other teams. By the time I retired (in 2001) I was getting books-15-20 pages on the other team, their sets and what my player likes to do." Videotape was just starting to be used as a scouting tool when Hawkins entered the league in 1989, but now coaches scour footage frame by frame, looking for any individual and team tendencies that can provide an edge.
Johnny Bach, Phil Jackson's "defensive coordinator" on the Chicago Bulls' first three championship teams, has seen a lot of changes during his more than 50 years of college and professional coaching: "I think scouting is far better than it ever was...we have it on DVD and we have it edited. I don't think players had as much information as they have now and I think it contributes to playing the scorers better-deciding who are the scorers and really concentrating on how we're going to push them out a little further (away from their favorite areas). You have so much information available-the statistics alone, then you have the pictorial review that I can produce to a team. What we call 'criticals'--out of bounds plays, what they do after a timeout, what they do when the score's tied, what's the last shot of the quarter--all these things are broken down now."

Coaching staffs use the DVD information to adjust their game plans in the same way that chess masters employ prepared sequences of moves to catch their opponents by surprise. Bach adds, "Believe me, every coach is trying to find something that works well for his team--and on the other bench there is a staff saying, 'You're not going to be able to run exactly what you practiced. We're going to take you out of it.'"

Looking back on his three decades in professional basketball, two-time NBA Executive of the Year (1990, 1997) Bob Bass concludes, "There is no question that defense is really so much better now than it was. I mean, you can't even compare it. We didn't have videotape-we had 16 millimeter film. It is really difficult to break down plays with that. We just didn't have the technology that you have today."

Read on......

www.suite101.com/article.cfm/basketball_spotlight/113795

Worst thread EVER

BonK wrote:
www.suite101.com/article.cfm/basketball_spotlight/113795

for Pants & MMaland, especially...

"NBA defense has reached an unprecedented level of sophistication. Former All-Star Hersey Hawkins says, "I can think about my first year in the league and how detailed scouting reports have become about stopping other teams. By the time I retired (in 2001) I was getting books-15-20 pages on the other team, their sets and what my player likes to do." Videotape was just starting to be used as a scouting tool when Hawkins entered the league in 1989, but now coaches scour footage frame by frame, looking for any individual and team tendencies that can provide an edge.
Johnny Bach, Phil Jackson's "defensive coordinator" on the Chicago Bulls' first three championship teams, has seen a lot of changes during his more than 50 years of college and professional coaching: "I think scouting is far better than it ever was...we have it on DVD and we have it edited. I don't think players had as much information as they have now and I think it contributes to playing the scorers better-deciding who are the scorers and really concentrating on how we're going to push them out a little further (away from their favorite areas). You have so much information available-the statistics alone, then you have the pictorial review that I can produce to a team. What we call 'criticals'--out of bounds plays, what they do after a timeout, what they do when the score's tied, what's the last shot of the quarter--all these things are broken down now."

Coaching staffs use the DVD information to adjust their game plans in the same way that chess masters employ prepared sequences of moves to catch their opponents by surprise. Bach adds, "Believe me, every coach is trying to find something that works well for his team--and on the other bench there is a staff saying, 'You're not going to be able to run exactly what you practiced. We're going to take you out of it.'"

Looking back on his three decades in professional basketball, two-time NBA Executive of the Year (1990, 1997) Bob Bass concludes, "There is no question that defense is really so much better now than it was. I mean, you can't even compare it. We didn't have videotape-we had 16 millimeter film. It is really difficult to break down plays with that. We just didn't have the technology that you have today."

Read on......

www.suite101.com/article.cfm/basketball_spotlight/113795

Thanks Bonk!

I agree with everything in this post.

Welcome to the forum!

Someone just opened a big bottle of HATORADE.

De-fence! De-fence!

AusWolf wrote:
Someone just opened a big bottle of HATORADE.

De-fence! De-fence!

This bottle of Hatorade has been open so long it is rancid.

Surely in the US he would be the Secretary of Defense?

Ugh... This thread will not die.

I should have secretly killed it off when I switched everything over to the new server. Would anybody have noticed?