Thursday, November 7, 2013

Discipline

Some might assume that I like slow-paced basketball. Not true. I like disciplined basketball. The problem is that fast-paced ball, especially with younger players, almost always turns into sloppy ball. Basketball lends itself so easily to hot-dogging, and it is just more than they can resist to start doing that. I figure that is why a lot of college coaches just keep the pace slower to keep the players under control.

There have been very disciplined running teams. Russell's Celtics. Wilt's Lakers. Reed's Knicks. Unseld's Bullets. Of course, they all started with a dominant center getting the ball out to the guards. It also required that defensive stopper in the middle so that the guards could afford to release a second earlier.

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