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I love that play call from Brad Stevens :leon:

2.6 seconds, have Isaiah sprint full court and get a full head of steam once he gets the inbound and drop it off for the open bucket.
 
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I'm happy Kentucky is going to lose, now we can stop this bullshyt from idiots like Larry brown saying that they could beat the worst NBA team
 
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Dirk was about to give Shaun Livingston the beats for punching his balls :mjlol:

Soon as Livingston did it he hit Dirk with the :whoa:

And what is up with all this nut and dikk grabbing with Cali teams:scust:

That is how you guys play ball in cali:scust:

I only ever see this happen in the NBA when the clippers or the warriors are playing :scust:
 
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brad stevens is a goddamn genius. calls timeout on the last play, draws up another one w/ isaiah thomas running from behind half court, smart w/ the game winner. :ohmy:
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When he called timeout after they just inbounded the ball, I was wondering what was going on. Then they come back and I see Isaiah all the way at the other end of the court, I was wondering why is he all the way back there. Then the play happened and absolutely loved it. :salute:
 
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jaguar paw said:
Brad Stevens play calling

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same damn lo sweater said:
brad stevens is a goddamn genius. calls timeout on the last play, draws up another one w/ isaiah thomas running from behind half court, smart w/ the game winner. :ohmy:
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pop helping out him and pop learning from him :salute:

WALTHAM – In a lot of ways, the San Antonio Spurs serve as the NBA’s model franchise. Their stars buy in. Their role players step up. They find pieces that fit the system and tweak the system to fit the pieces. They have benefited from Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker, of course, but those guys have also benefited from the Spurs.

They have obviously benefited from Gregg Popovich, too. With the amount of success the Spurs coach has achieved, other coaches would be dummies not to try learning from his style.

Brad Stevens is no dummy. The Boston Celtics head coach said he once texted Popovich with a message that went something like this: “Hey, can I pick your brain for a while?”

“He was very amiable to that,” Stevens said after Saturday's practice. “And then (the two coaches share) a text here or there. The only other thing I know is we’re both from Indiana. So we talk about family in Indiana half the time and then we get back to basketball. But he’s been great to me. I really admire him.”

“I’ve gotten to know him. He’s been very gracious to me," Stevens explained. "I’ve met with him after both of our games before. I met with him a little bit prior to our coach’s meeting."

One wise-guy reporter asked if Popovich, who can be brief with the media at times, answered all of Stevens' queries with one-word responses. Stevens quipped back, "I think he’s made that part of his schtick. And when you’re that good, that long, you can do whatever you want.

"That’s why I’m sitting here rumbling.”

Popovich has learned from Stevens, too. Last year, he said he used to watch Butler games back when Stevens coached at the university. Why?

“To see what I could pick up, to see what he did because he did such a fine job,” said Popovich. The Spurs coach is expected back on the bench Sunday against the Celtics after missing time due to a minor procedure.

Whether in pursuit of a set play, an offensive design, a defensive philosophy or a fresh approach toward learning, coaches often steal from each other. While noting, “I don’t think you can ever try to be somebody else; I think you have to be the best you,” Stevens (like everybody else) obviously admires how the Spurs operate.

“Popovich has talked in our conversations – and even publicly – Popovich has talked about the benefit of continuity, the benefit of having the Big Three together through all the different other people that have been there,” the Celtics coach said. “The term that he uses that I love is corporate knowledge.

“So when you watch teams that have a culture and a continuity in who’s there, they know what they’re doing night-in and night-out. They know what pitfalls may occur and how to address them. They know how to handle success. They know that they probably had experiences not doing either well, and how to go about it the next time. We all admire that.

“First of all, Popovich is the best in the business, right? And secondly, he’s been there 18 years and those guys have been with him for a large part of that. And really, really, it’s a group working together in every way.”

“They just plug guys in,” Stevens said, “and then you see all these guys that have gotten a ton of minutes during the regular season being great in the playoffs. I think you can always learn a lot from them as you watch them. Every one of us has watched them a ton. Probably as much as anyone else because they’re on in June. They’re just admirable to watch. It’s just a basketball purist’s favorite thing to do, is watch a team that plays like that.”

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http://www.masslive.com/celtics/index.ssf/2014/11/boston_celtics_coach_brad_stev_1.html
 
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