Pete Newell
Pete Newell
Peter Francis Newellwas an American college men's basketball coach and basketball instructional coach. He coached for 15 years at the University of San Francisco, Michigan State University and the University of California, Berkeley, compiling an overall record of 234 wins and 123 losses. He led the University of California to the 1959 NCAA men's basketball championship, and a year later coached the gold medal-winning U.S. team at the 1960 Summer Olympics, a team that would be inducted as a unit...
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Bill Sharman was coach at that time and I didn't want to intrude, ... But Kermit had to learn to play facing the basket, which he'd never done. So, I began meeting him at the Loyola gym at 7:30 each morning and we'd work on his development.
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He had good range, ... much farther than a smaller person like him should have had. Because he wasn't as big as most players, he had to learn more about the game, too. He always seemed to make the right pass and never seemed to take a bad shot. And I'll tell you, he was a god in San Francisco's Chinatown.
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They'd come all the way from Korea, so we arranged for some private instruction.
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He seems to have kind of an innate understanding of the game for someone as young as he is. I don't think it will be three years before he plays. I think (Lakers coach Phil Jackson) will like him.
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When he said the player was 6-7, I was skeptical,
believe boards pieces
I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.
teaching practice two
Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.
team groups individual
There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual.
basketball team responsibility
Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.