It’s happened a couple of times already during the NBA playoffs this past week – teams have the ball but out of timeouts after a made basket or free-throw by the opponent. In the NBA you can advance the ball all the way to the 3-quarter mark. On ESPN last night, Avery Johnson said last night, “always gotta keep one tucked away in the back pocket.”
Phil Jackson never likes to call timeout and Bobby Knight never was one to call for one.
What’s your philosophy on calling them?
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Great piece on Houston Rockets head coach Rick Adelman on relationships and winning via Sports Tribune
“Heck, I never expected to coach in the NBA,” he says. “I was going to be a high school coach.”
After his seven seasons as a player ended in 1975, Adelman spent a year working as a sales rep for Converse Shoe Company in Southern California. With his masters degree in education from Loyola Marymount, Adelman applied for a couple of high school teaching and coaching positions. He didn’t get either job.
“I did poorly in the interviews,” he says, “and I found out I had no clue what high school coaching was all about. During the eight years I had been out of college, guys in my (graduating) class had worked six or seven years in coaching and were way ahead of me in terms of experience.”
-Coach Finamore
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