George Karl on what's wrong with basketball (and the Blazers)

this.....he needed a strong, alpha male, father figure coach...Stotts was a bad fit for his personality...Pops will tell him to shut up and dance

 

Exactly. Many people have said we did nothing to address the issue. We did do something though. Just because the outcome wasn't satisfactory doesn't mean nothing was done.

And YOU better get us a win tonight!!! That's doing something!

 

Man... Are we really talking about our locker room being "fractured" because George Karl has his head up his ass?

Jesus...

 

Is nobody going to point out that Karl and Stotts go way back? No way Karl is going to blame anything on Stotts.

 

I vaguely recall the comment. I think it was widely assumed on the board at the time he was most likely talking about Batum, and possibly Dame.

 

Karl does not know more about basketball than me. That is a fact.

 

Karl: Lillard, Anthony may share similar flaws
http://www.thescore.com/news/1194077
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Discuss.

 

Delete this sly! Didn't see the other thread. I suck.

 

I think Lillard is a little too involved in his rap career and shoe line for my own personal tastes. While it likely doesn't affect his on court performance, when the team isn't doing well, something you have to think if his head is entirely in the game.

 

I replied already, too late.

 

Karl knows a lot about basketball, but doesn't have any sort of insider access to the Blazers and, more to the point, he really gave no basketball reasons for his opinion. It's not enough to be an expert--you have to actually use that expertise in some observable way for your position to have credibility, in my opinion. Karl, to me, simply tossed off a quick observation that basically was just a vote of support for his friend. He didn't say anything that suggested basketball expertise was being applied.

 

More blasphemous Dame hate. Just move the whole damn team to Seattle if everybody around here is gonna bitch and complain when shit goes south

 

Perhaps not. Look how many international players have excelled in SAS (Diaw, Splitter, Mills, Manu, Parker, Belinelli, Baynes, etc.). They were all exposed to different coaches, different systems, different cultures, yet so many of them excel in SAS, and many don't seem to be worth a shit before, or after SAS.

Of course, Pop is a no nonsense, my way or the highway, kind of coach, but that only works if the players believe in what you're selling. Pop has a track record that speaks for itself, but it hasn't always been that way. He had to build that up over the years and when players have seen his style of team play work elsewhere, they are more likely to instantly buy in. And, if not, he's quick to show them the door.

BNM

 

Karl doesn't know Dame. He knows Stotts. Apparently his decades of professional basketball experience and his close familiarity with Stotts leads him to believe Stotts is a good coach. The bastard.

 

So pretty much verbatim whats been said here

 

I would offer that for the most part, in the past at least, European players, because of the systems they grew up in, and because of the iron-fisted team oriented nature of European coaching, are coachable. It's been my impression that the European leagues are full of coaches who are just like Pop in their no-nonsense approach. I see European players and Popovich as a perfect match.

 

Not just European players, but international players, in general (Manu, Patty, Baynes, Oberto, etc.).

BNM

 

You're right. I initially wrote foreign, but didn't like it and changed it to European. I was thinking some of the South Americans came via European basketball. International is more correct.