Steve Kerr says young basketball players ISO too much. Wants kids to also play soccer

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

You want to have a legit discussion we can do that. I don't have a problem with disagreement or even being wrong. However, all the other extra stuff is unnecessary and I'm not gonna engage when it comes to that.

Too much bullshyt gets posted on this board, other cats start believing it, and then it basically becomes conventional wisdom. Forgive me, if I don't have the patience.

 

[Reece]

Did Magic Johnson play soccer

 

[froggle]

The main thing for me is to prevent burnout. One sport too often can make the kid just give up and say fukk it

Sidenote..tennis and basketball are an interesting comparison. I played tons of both. Its great for footwork, creativity, hand speed and anticipation but it fukks up the eyes. In basketball u never keep your head down. In tennis youre supposed to watch the ball hit the strings. So i basically had to rewire myself

It can def throw off your coordination. I played soccer the majority of my life before transitioning to basketball and just covering your man I had to adjust how I did it.

Funny, because I was such a lockdown defender I realized on the soccer field I was getting into the defensive stance and that did not play out well at all

But creativity wise is where we would be killing, cause a lot of the soccer kids also played basketball and the cuts and anticipations blew a lot of teams out of the water

 

[SadimirPutin]

I agree with him on soccer

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Team soccer getting blown out right now. And their offense looks like trash

Team soccer won more games over a five-year span than any team in NBA history and had the most dominant offense of all-time too.

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Big Boss]

Like everything, it can help. But it's not necessary. Pretty sure all the eurobusts we've had over the decades played some soccer at some point in their life. And I say that as a eurobreh myself.

I guess this is another chapter to the good old "euro vs US fundamentals" debate. The difference is just at another level : kids in Europe play in professionnal leagues quite young where they have no choice but to walk the walk respect a rigid pecking order (there are some exceptions of course). Meaning they fall in line and do whatever they're told to. As opposed to US kids who play, well, with other US kids. And since the style of play is different (which is what Luka was talking about when he said that it was "easier" to shine in the NBA) isos just isn't something they end up doing much in Europe. There's much less money/star power anyway, even for veterans. Add all that up, it's harder to be a "star" in Euro basketball vs in the US, so the mindframe and the style of play of kids will be different. No amount of soccer or any other sport will change that, but the skills themselves that may come from another sport can of course be positive for some. Which is why I believe various players practice up boxing or whatever other sport in the offseason.

(And all that doesn't mean that europlayers are per se more team-orientated or whatever, but just that that's how they HAVE to play while in Europe. Doesnt mean they enjoy playing that way or even "naturally" inclined to do so. They grow watching the same NBA games and highlights as US kids.)

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Which leads to sentiments like this:

 

[FaTaL]

Which leads to sentiments like this:

 

[Phantum]

I don't like soccer at all but I can see how playing while young could help with footwork at the very least.

 

[AceMan]

 

[Lakerman0834]

I don't like soccer at all but I can see how playing while young could help with footwork at the very least.

Soccer you need fundamentals and skills more then athleticism.

 

[The_Sheff]

I don't like soccer at all but I can see how playing while young could help with footwork at the very least.

Thing is with soccer you arent going to take it coast to coast and score unless something crazy happens. That can't be the way you normally expect to play. You gotta depend on other folks for you to score. That's what Kerr talking about.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I don't like soccer at all but I can see how playing while young could help with footwork at the very least.

Spacial awareness and body positioning as well

Understanding team dynamics in offense/defense. Etc

 

[MikelArteta]

steve kerr seeing the decimation of us basketball live