Post by lasalle89 on Feb 28, 2015 8:57:08 GMT -5
Did anyone catch the 30 for 30 about the 1983 NC State team? If you didn't do yourself a favor and watch it on YouTube. It is awesome on so many levels. The assistant coaches of Jimmy Valvano were interviewed and they said they would work all week in practice on the game plan. They said at the first time out if he saw it wasn't working he would just say scrap that.....he would say now this is was we are going to do. Against Ralph Samson he desinged the triangle and 2 during a TO. Virginias coach said they never saw it before and didn't know what to do. In a tie game with one minute left he wound tell his players to foul so they couldn't hold the ball. There is just so many little things this guy did. Once a year they would go to practice and do nothing but cut the the nets down and cheer and work up their emotions like they won the national championship. They had to win the ACC tournament just to get into the NCAAs and they had to beat Michael Jordan's defending national champ team then Virginai with Samson.
I thought we had a good run but this was the most improbable run I have ever seen. Anyway the point is a coach can help carry a team. Jimmy V was so loose he kept the players loose. They players said they loved him and trusted him and would run through a wall for him. Before the Houston game in the finals he told everyone all week including his players how they were going to slow it down and milk the clock and shoot one shot every 5 minutes. Right before the game in the locker room he says.... If we think we are going to hold the ball you crazy... WE ARE NOT GOING TO HOLD THE BALL!!!! We are going to run with them and jam it down their throats!!!! The assisstant coach couldn't get through telling of the speech without crying. He said he made the kids believe they were better then they were. Every coach should watch this because what you lack in X and O's you can make up in other ways.
I thought we had a good run but this was the most improbable run I have ever seen. Anyway the point is a coach can help carry a team. Jimmy V was so loose he kept the players loose. They players said they loved him and trusted him and would run through a wall for him. Before the Houston game in the finals he told everyone all week including his players how they were going to slow it down and milk the clock and shoot one shot every 5 minutes. Right before the game in the locker room he says.... If we think we are going to hold the ball you crazy... WE ARE NOT GOING TO HOLD THE BALL!!!! We are going to run with them and jam it down their throats!!!! The assisstant coach couldn't get through telling of the speech without crying. He said he made the kids believe they were better then they were. Every coach should watch this because what you lack in X and O's you can make up in other ways.