Just decided to post part III before part II because thats how I felt like doing it.
Part III: Who is truly the selfish one in the game of basketball today?
So many coaches today talk about how selfish players are today in this era. These coaches all want to talk about how players aren’t willing to change parts of their game for the so called “Greater Good of the Team”. But who is really being selfish here. So many coaches stress on players their system, and that the players must change their game to fit into their system. I’ve seen plenty of coaches that don’t want to win, unless the players win the game in their system. I’ve personally have had a coach say that he would rather loose by 30 points then win a game by the style of play that we had played that night. My question here would be who gave this clown a job. Why are their so many coaches like this, why wouldn’t a coach take a win however he can get it. Why wouldn’t a coach play the style of game that is going to give him the best chance of getting a win? I believe a good coach will get a win however he can get it. If I am a coach I do whatever I have to, to win the game. Maybe I got lost along the way but isn’t that the name of the game to win the game. Why does a coach feel bad after winning a game just because it wasn’t won by playing within his system? Don’t these coaches realize that most of them need to win to keep their jobs? It seems some don’t. I will tell you why these coaches don’t want to win any other way besides through there system, because theses coaches are selfish. Too many coaches out there don’t want to adjust their system at all. These coaches need a slap in the face, to awaken them. Don’t these blind buffoons’ see that you must adjust your system to the players, or maybe even do away with your whole system if your player’s style of play do not fit the system. However, most coaches don’t believe this. In fact most coaches will just play who ever fits into their system best even if these players are not the best players on the team. A lot of times they play some of the worst players just because they know those players will run the system. Sorry but if you’re a coach and you’re not playing your best players you shouldn’t be a coach. If you are a coach and you don’t play your best players, obviously winning isn’t as important to you as it should be. Why are you going to burry one of your best players on the bench just because he doesn’t fit into your scheme? A good coach adjusts his game scheme to the best players on his team, and that’s how he plays the game, because when it truly comes down to it that is the best chance the team has to win. The thing is these coaches want to win in their system so they can get the credit for the win. They want to be able to say that their great system was the reason for why the team succeeded. Wrong answer any good coach knows this, your players win games, end of story. But there are so many bad coaches that want to win through their system and end up benching great players and just play terrible players because they are willing to run the system.
Another thing that sickens me to my stomach about coaches is how quickly coaches out there turn their back on the team. When the going gets bad for these coaches they don’t stick it out and buckle down like they stress on their players. If there’s a way out they take it. A great example of a coach doing this, yet it is another example from football would be the resignation of Falcons X-coach Bobby Petrino. When the going got tough in Atlanta without having Mike Vick, Petrino realized it was going to be hard to get Atlanta back to a playoff caliber team. Petrino signed a 5 year deal yet didn’t even last a full season. He was offered a college head coaching position and took it. He basically slapped his whole team in the face and left them in the middle of the season. Petrino wasn’t worried about anybody on the team, or the team at all, he was worried about himself, and his own personal survival. How can anybody like this tell a team how they must work as a team, and must have team unity, when he has no loyalty to the team? There are so many coaches out there just like this, however many have just not been given as great of an opportunity to turn there back on the team so viscously. However if the right offer presented these coaches, I guarantee more coaches than not would quit on their team in the middle of the season. They are only worried about their own survival; this is another reason why they want to win with their system so bad. If it looks as if they are the genius of creating such a great system these coaches think this will earn them opportunities’ to coach at higher levels. What these coaches don’t realize is winning games eventually will get u all the looks you need.
So many coaches today talk about how selfish players are today in this era. These coaches all want to talk about how players aren’t willing to change parts of their game for the so called “Greater Good of the Team”. But who is really being selfish here. So many coaches stress on players their system, and that the players must change their game to fit into their system. I’ve seen plenty of coaches that don’t want to win, unless the players win the game in their system. I’ve personally have had a coach say that he would rather loose by 30 points then win a game by the style of play that we had played that night. My question here would be who gave this clown a job. Why are their so many coaches like this, why wouldn’t a coach take a win however he can get it. Why wouldn’t a coach play the style of game that is going to give him the best chance of getting a win? I believe a good coach will get a win however he can get it. If I am a coach I do whatever I have to, to win the game. Maybe I got lost along the way but isn’t that the name of the game to win the game. Why does a coach feel bad after winning a game just because it wasn’t won by playing within his system? Don’t these coaches realize that most of them need to win to keep their jobs? It seems some don’t. I will tell you why these coaches don’t want to win any other way besides through there system, because theses coaches are selfish. Too many coaches out there don’t want to adjust their system at all. These coaches need a slap in the face, to awaken them. Don’t these blind buffoons’ see that you must adjust your system to the players, or maybe even do away with your whole system if your player’s style of play do not fit the system. However, most coaches don’t believe this. In fact most coaches will just play who ever fits into their system best even if these players are not the best players on the team. A lot of times they play some of the worst players just because they know those players will run the system. Sorry but if you’re a coach and you’re not playing your best players you shouldn’t be a coach. If you are a coach and you don’t play your best players, obviously winning isn’t as important to you as it should be. Why are you going to burry one of your best players on the bench just because he doesn’t fit into your scheme? A good coach adjusts his game scheme to the best players on his team, and that’s how he plays the game, because when it truly comes down to it that is the best chance the team has to win. The thing is these coaches want to win in their system so they can get the credit for the win. They want to be able to say that their great system was the reason for why the team succeeded. Wrong answer any good coach knows this, your players win games, end of story. But there are so many bad coaches that want to win through their system and end up benching great players and just play terrible players because they are willing to run the system.
Another thing that sickens me to my stomach about coaches is how quickly coaches out there turn their back on the team. When the going gets bad for these coaches they don’t stick it out and buckle down like they stress on their players. If there’s a way out they take it. A great example of a coach doing this, yet it is another example from football would be the resignation of Falcons X-coach Bobby Petrino. When the going got tough in Atlanta without having Mike Vick, Petrino realized it was going to be hard to get Atlanta back to a playoff caliber team. Petrino signed a 5 year deal yet didn’t even last a full season. He was offered a college head coaching position and took it. He basically slapped his whole team in the face and left them in the middle of the season. Petrino wasn’t worried about anybody on the team, or the team at all, he was worried about himself, and his own personal survival. How can anybody like this tell a team how they must work as a team, and must have team unity, when he has no loyalty to the team? There are so many coaches out there just like this, however many have just not been given as great of an opportunity to turn there back on the team so viscously. However if the right offer presented these coaches, I guarantee more coaches than not would quit on their team in the middle of the season. They are only worried about their own survival; this is another reason why they want to win with their system so bad. If it looks as if they are the genius of creating such a great system these coaches think this will earn them opportunities’ to coach at higher levels. What these coaches don’t realize is winning games eventually will get u all the looks you need.
Coaches playing terrible players-
I still can’t come to terms with why coaches play bad players. I had a coach once admit about a player on my team that the player was terrible. However this player actually started some games, and played a lot of minutes. For, what? If a coach admits to a player being terrible, what is the kid even doing on the team? Sorry, but if I’m a coach and you’re a bum, you aren’t getting a jersey for my team. I might let you distribute water to the players on my team (who our on my team because they can actually play the game well) during the game but that’s as close as a terrible kid would get to being on my team. And I might not even let the kid do this; I mean your terrible kid, give the game up, give the dream up and hit the books. So why do these coaches play terrible players. Because just that the player is terrible, so the player is willing to do what ever the coach wants him to do so he can play. So basically, these coaches play terrible kids because they got joystick in their hand with a wire that runs up the kid’s backside, and they can make the players every move for him. That to me is disgusting. These coaches try to give a reason for why the terrible kid plays. 99% of the time the coach gives the lame excuse that the kid plays hard and works hard. I would tell a coach again, you must be blind or plain dumb. These coaches want to believe the kid works hard? Obviously the kid hasn’t been working hard enough you said he is terrible. If the kid is terrible, he is usually terrible for a reason. If the kid doesn’t have any skills it is quite apparent to me, that the kid isn’t that much of a hard worker. Because if the kid was such a hard worker he would have a nice skill set. Come on people this doesn’t take a high intellect or a person of high intelligence to be able to see. So if a person has a sorry set of skills, why do you think this is. To me I would say because the kid hasn’t worked hard enough over his life. The kid obviously hasn’t put in the hours on his own time to work on his skills. Because if he did the kid should be a decent player, yet this coach said he sucked, so the kid sucks. Get rid of the terrible kids; send them home, where the rest of the terrible kids are. He obviously doesn’t work on his game hard enough he’s terrible.
Another reason why I feel coaches are truly the selfish ones in this game today are these coaches are too truly about themselves. These coaches honestly love the feeling of people giving them so much credit (for lack using the term I really want.) Don’t these coaches realize it isn’t about them; this game is about the players. The coaches playing days are over (which hopefully the coach did have playing days otherwise truthfully he should not be coaching) it’s about the players game now. Don’t these coaches realize especially at the lower levels of the game that these kids are not trying to stop playing at the level which they are at? They want to make it to the next level and the next level after that. Well how do most make it to the next level; they usually succeed at the level before that one. But if a coach doesn’t give a player the chance to succeed or makes the player play some ridiculous suppressed role, how are most players going to make it to the next level. The player is going to have to overcome some major obstacles which he shouldn’t have to overcome, and which most players are going to just say forget it and give the game up, which I have seen happen to way too many good ball players over my playing career.
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