With Carr's advice, the Celtics ranked in the top 10 in 3s attempted in each of the five seasons of Jones' run as head coach, during which Boston went to four straight NBA Finals. Bird led the league in 3-pointers in with The next season, Ainge eclipsed that total by the All-Star break and finished with That's the way I like to use it. It's a killer shot. Just watch the opposing team. Just watch 'em. Their heads go down. There's usually a quick timeout and the coach looks like he's mad.
Now, you feel like it's a desperate situation. I always called it icing the game. It's very deflating. We might have thrown up only a couple of them. The only time I practiced them was right before the 3-point contest in Danny [Ainge] would get the rack out and we'd rebound and throw the ball back out and shoot some 3s.
But we didn't fire up 3s after every practice. Before the national championship at the University of Kentucky, before taking the New York Knicks to the playoffs, before the not-so-successful stint with the Celtics, before he led the Louisville Cardinals to Finals Fours, Pitino was presented with a task: Resurrect the Providence Friars. The men's basketball program was on life support, finishing tied for last in the Big East in , the season before Pitino arrived.
First, he used a maniacal full-court pressure to create havoc. That worked. The Friars faced a Soviet Union national team featuring stars such as Arvydas Sabonis and Sarunas Marciulionis in a preseason exhibition ahead of the season.
The Soviets, veterans of the international game's 3-point line, took 27 3-pointers and crushed the Friars. Coaches were really opposed to the rule and opposed to adjusting their offense to the 3-point line. You had guys who were coaching 25 and 30 years who were used to a certain way, and they had to reevaluate things philosophically. Pitino took special pride in the uniqueness of his team's approach, noting that a who's who of opposing teams -- Rollie Massimino's Villanova, John Thompson's Georgetown, Lou Carnesecca's St.
John's -- failed to hit a single 3 against Providence during Big East play. The Friars went that season and reached the Final Four as a No. They led the nation in made 3-pointers and shot Pitino wanted to shoot 3s to space the floor around Ewing. In his first season, the Knicks rose all the way to the playoffs, shooting the third-most 3-pointers in the league despite the absence of an array of sharpshooters. They took an NBA-record 1, 3-pointers, more than double the league average.
The previous record was I remember we made every bonus clause based on attendance and wins. New York newspapers put "Pitino's Bombinos" all over their pages in honor of the coach's radical strategy.
But there was a method to his madness. One of four conditions had to be met for Pitino's players to have the green light on 3s: on offensive rebounds, on dribble penetration, inside-out plays and on the break after ball reversal.
In any of those situations, it was bombs away. The Knicks swept Charles Barkley and the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round that year. But in the Eastern Conference semifinals, they ran into arguably the greatest force in basketball history: Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.
Jordan had a superhuman series, averaging The Bad Boys could not handle us. That summer, Pitino took the head-coaching job at University of Kentucky, where he later won a national championship. His Knicks' 3-point-attempts record would stand untouched until five seasons later, when the Houston Rockets won back-to-back titles in the mids, in part by embracing the shortened 3-point line.
Rick Pitino's Knicks let 'em fly in the coach's second season as head coach, which helped turn a struggling franchise into a contender. Brown is among the most influential coaches in the game, but a 3-point fan he is not.
His NBA teams ranked in the bottom 10 in 3-point frequency for 21 straight seasons, often dead last. He coached Reggie Miller -- widely known as one of the finest shooters ever -- in Indiana, and yet none of his four Pacers teams ranked better than 23rd in 3-point frequency. In October, Brown, now the head coach at Southern Methodist University, told reporters he'd like to abolish the 3-point line and instead award three points for layups.
He wasn't kidding. I don't see our game improve. I don't think the people who invented the game wanted to put more emphasis on outside shooting, but that's my personal opinion.
Gregg Popovich is one of the half-dozen current NBA coaches who hails from the Brown coaching tree -- and was the best man at Brown's wedding. He also shares Brown's displeasure with the long ball.
But performance always trumps preference, and Popovich has utilized the 3 to great success. His Spurs squad popularized the corner 3 -- i. Over the past decade, only six teams have shot more 3s than Pop's. If you don't use it, you're in big trouble. But you sort of feel like it's cheating. We all tend to run the same play to get the open guy.
Everybody runs a pick-and-roll, runs a guy down the middle and either you gotta pick him up or not. And you got to decide what you're going to do when the guy pops out for the shot. It's pretty boring, actually. Under Popovich, the Spurs have taken 1, more corner 3s than any other franchise since the NBA began tracking the shot in 9, and they are the only team to convert over 40 percent of them over that time.
From to , D'Antoni's "Seven Seconds or Less" Phoenix Suns used speed and 3-point shooting to win over 70 percent of their games. We just played. The genesis of D'Antoni's coaching philosophy came during his days playing in the ABA, where the 3-pointer reigned.
As a coach, he won league championships in Europe with a heavy emphasis on the 3-ball. But we won a championship, so we weren't criticized too much. It was like, why wouldn't we shoot it? But unlike Riley and Pitino, D'Antoni wanted to space the floor to unleash his point guard, Steve Nash, rather than his bigs. All I wanted to do was get layups. That's all I was really searching for. And so, you can shoot more 3s, have a stretch 4. Wouldn't it be great if your 5 could shoot 3s also?
It goes right on down the line. When D'Antoni took over, he made the unconventional move to slide Shawn Marion from small forward to power forward and make Amare Stoudemire his starting center. That replaced the lumbering 7-footer Jake Voskuhl with another 3-point shooter, Quentin Richardson, on the wing. Richardson led the league in 3-pointers in , D'Antoni's first in Phoenix.
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He wears his disappointments about as heavily as any retired athlete in recent memory. The Blazers and Celtics brought in new coaches to address questions that we may see to be more existential and personnel-based than strategic or cultural. Sometimes you're just putting a new face on the same disappointment, and sometimes that disappointment ossifies, and then morphs into something worse. Quick links. Hubie Brown is the most biased commentator.
Re: Hubie Brown is the most biased commentator. Post 46 » by G35 » Mon May 14, am pross wrote: Yup. I hate him with a passion. People say he's knowledgable but speaks on knowledge that anyone who has played organised basketball would have learnt in under 10's. He hardly even remembers guys names, he speaks in third person half time and I swear sometimes he forgets where he is half the time. He talks so slow and points out the obvious a lot of times.
Deimos wrote: he pisses me off. There's no entertainment. ITs just analyzing play after play after play. It is far more interesting to try and figure out how to beat the Heat than it is to beat Indy. When and where and who would do that interview, we have not locked in on that yet. Kerr: I have a totally different perspective on why people make decisions. Now I have a much better perspective on why people do what they do from a big-picture standpoint. Even though its sounds simplistic, once you have been in the [GM] chair and you have your owner telling you something or, say, season-ticket holders not buying tickets, you understand how different circumstances dictate different decisions.
Turner Sports president David Levy: I don't know whether it's as a game analyst or studio analyst, but Steve Nash could really be an great asset. The league-owned network now in 53 million homes will air more than live games this season. The Bulls and Thunder are scheduled nine times, followed by the Celtics, Mavericks and Rockets with eight apiece.
The network has plenty of programming, some of it very good, and some of it hosted by Ahmad Rashad. While we appreciate Rick Kamla's enthusiasm for the league, there is a fine line between passion and a screaming, over-the-top, shtick-filled highlight reader who makes us want to change the dial. David Aldridge serves as studio and game analyst and reporter. March 19, , Nuggets at Heat p. There is no more discussion; Kobe is the last heir to Jordan. I think LeBron is starting a new era of basketball that is not led by a dominant 2-guard.
I mean, who would be MVP if they both average 18 points? Maybe they can do a sign-and-trade and get four players. What do you build around? Whom do you build around? All of those guys were brought to that team because they were complementary pieces to LeBron. They are all good basketball players, but their best skill was how they played with LeBron or off LeBron, and now that they don't have that center and that hub, I don't see a way out.
Barkley: It's bad for the NBA. My concern is that we're becoming like pro baseball. If you are the Cleveland franchise, if you are the Toronto franchise and if Carmelo leaves Denver, well, that would be it for those franchises, and the same with Chris Paul in New Orleans. So we'll have four or five teams with no chance of being competitive or winning. Fans are not going to want to see that. I don't want the NBA to have six good teams and [nearly] 25 bad teams.
That's not the way it should be. Cleveland did not win [a championship], but at least you could hang your hat on LeBron James. If you were in Toronto, you could at least hang your hat on Chris Bosh. In Denver, Carmelo. In New Orleans, Chris Paul. Who guards that guy? You put a guy on him, he will take him outside. You put a little guy on him, he will take him inside. That guy is going to be a beast. You just have to hope he misses. Barkley: I never said LeBron was wrong.
I said that press conference was silly and I used the word "punk," which was my mistake. What Magic, Michael and myself said was we would not have done it. We are not saying LeBron is wrong. From a competitive standpoint, I wanted to beat Michael Jordan. I got my chance and he beat me. I can live with that.
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