augie wrote:bcbc55 wrote:fafan wrote:Guys, just block bcbc and it will stop the insanity. Go to control board, click on foes or friends. It's that easy!
fafan: Great idea I vote for that, then I won't have to read all that posts that criticize me, name calling me, dumping on me and getting their digs in also all the time. I think these negative responses to my posts or responses to posts is either jealousy or age discrimination because I am an truly old senile senior citizen.
Thanks fafan. Maybe I will do that to my critics.
BcBc55
Bob, I don’t think I have ever been disrespectful to you (could be wrong). Don’t always agree with you but do sometimes and absolutely respect your opinion but play devils advocate for a second....instead of jealousy or age discrimination maybe could your old style thinking, stubbornness and not adjusting to the game of basketball the way it’s played now create all this animosity?
All major sports; baseball, hockey football and yes basketball has changed and evolved over the last 20-30-40 years. You Can lead a horse to water but your can’t make them drink. You can still love the damn horse though.
augie: I agree with what you posted above. I certainly don't mind that you are playing devil's advocate. However, why should others get so upset with me just because of the way I think and they dont like how I think?
I believe that the old style basketball that I favor can still win at the high school and all levels of college basketball including D-1 basketball if done correctly. But you have to understand and know how to coach this game that way.
Which ever adjectives my critics want to throw at me is fine with me because you can't teach a old dog new tricks if the old tricks still work if done properly. I was criticized when I coached so being criticized doesn't bother me but insulting me, calling me names, dumping on me, dissing me, etc. is just not called for, but if it makes my critics happy let them have at it, but I don't have to pay any attention to it like I have all my basketball life.
It is kind of fun that adults?? can get so upset with an old time senior basketball citizen who they think is senile.
Which two teams in the NBA right now come to the closest way of playing old style basketball. Draft, trade and sign only good human beings, coachable, high IQ players, basketball players playing basketball over athletes playing basketball just the opposite of the way the other 29 NBA teams (until the Celtics smartened up and figured why the Spurs were so successful for all these years) do as looking for athlete first and the heck with the other factors and how most D-1 college recruites recruit the same way, athletes and the heck with the other factors.
Why the most successful NBA franchise in the past 20 season who had the most NBA champions and most 50 wins seasons, the San Antonio Spurs and now the Spurs of the Eastern Conference are the Boston Celtics under Brad Stevens who used the old style at Butler to almost with a half court 3 of winning the D-1 NCAA March Madness and look how he has turned the dismantled Celtic program around in just 4 short seasons using the Spurs style of organization and play.
Also, why should I be forced to change my basketball philosophy just because others disagree with me. They are so upset with me that they can't even agree to disagree, most want to attack me personally which is fine.
I know I am stubborn basketball wise but I am just going with what was successful for me as a coach, how successful Butler was and how successful the Spurs were/are and now adding the Celtics to that list.
However, I certainly appreciate your efforts in your post to try to help me. Not many here on MBR would do that.
I understand what you were trying to get me to do. But "I ain't a changin", not this late in my basketball life.
Besides I believe in the way Pop Popovich and Brad Stevens run and coach their teams and even with a shot clock they have to deal with. They are the only NBA teams that I will watch and am hoping for a Spurs-Celtics championship series in June. That would be a HEAVEN made series. A series of old style basketball.
Thanks again augie.
