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<blockquote data-quote="Tommy_Taylor_1972" data-source="post: 977665" data-attributes="member: 6776"><p>I cannot read Coach Stoudamire's mind,only his background, and I am not paid anymore to think, but. Coach's background in winning at high levels comes not only in his 2 Oregon state championships in High school, but from his college Coach Lute Olson at Arizona. Coach Olson was the ultimate re-builder coach, for example taking over high school jobs, a junior college, and Long Beach State in the LA area in the 1960's. He emulated Coach Wooden's style of play, learned by being there in LA during Wooden's heyday, with strong guards (1 and 2), strong swing men (3 and 4) and a good enough center (5), all with constant motion offense and tough defense with discipline. He then went on to rebuild Iowa and then to Arizona, where Damon was part of his "Point Guard University". With the times, Coach Olson moved away from the 2-guard front that Wooden used, but kept the motion, strong swing men guard/forwards and good enough center. </p><p></p><p>I would think that Damon took what he learned to the pros as a player and to Pacific U, and then back to the pros as assistant. My SWAG (sophisticated wild a** guess) is the Damon as the new GT coach is trying to fit his inherited and "portaled" into the style he knows best from when he was coached. And, he likely knows a coach has to play with what he owns at the time, and to improve that with recruiting. When I played at Tech in the late 60's early 70's, Coach Hyder was good at capitalized on what he had. A particular game with UCLA shows me a contrast of coaching styles between a center-centric motion offense used by Coach Hyder and a guard-forward-centric motion offense used by Coach Wooden. Center Yunkus had a great game over Patterson, but Bibby, Valley, Wicks, and Rowe had an ever greater game, and we lost 121-90. Both teams played 12 players throughout the game, not just emptying the bench at the end.</p><p></p><p>Without a great center yet, Coach Stoudamire may be looking to follow Wooden/Olson, while developing or obtaining as good enough center, and having subs that can carry on when needed. Below is the Georgia Tech - UCLA game in 1969, showing the contrast of the two styles of coaching focus, one on the center and one on all the others. The UCLA guards and forwards scored 101 to our guards and forwards 56, with our center getting 38 to their center 11. Wooden's style won 121-90, observed by Lute Olson, and likely the thinking of Damon Stoudamire. And most pro teams today have a version of the Wizard of Westwood's motion offense in a pattern to optimize their talents. There was in that one tournament in LA a look at 4 teams' offensive patterns, Tech with the shuffle, Princeton with the "Princeton offense", Indiana ? but before Bobby Knight took over, and UCLA with the guard-forward motion offense with high center. I may be wrong, but I think we will see the Wooden/Olson style again soon.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]15211[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tommy_Taylor_1972, post: 977665, member: 6776"] I cannot read Coach Stoudamire's mind,only his background, and I am not paid anymore to think, but. Coach's background in winning at high levels comes not only in his 2 Oregon state championships in High school, but from his college Coach Lute Olson at Arizona. Coach Olson was the ultimate re-builder coach, for example taking over high school jobs, a junior college, and Long Beach State in the LA area in the 1960's. He emulated Coach Wooden's style of play, learned by being there in LA during Wooden's heyday, with strong guards (1 and 2), strong swing men (3 and 4) and a good enough center (5), all with constant motion offense and tough defense with discipline. He then went on to rebuild Iowa and then to Arizona, where Damon was part of his "Point Guard University". With the times, Coach Olson moved away from the 2-guard front that Wooden used, but kept the motion, strong swing men guard/forwards and good enough center. I would think that Damon took what he learned to the pros as a player and to Pacific U, and then back to the pros as assistant. My SWAG (sophisticated wild a** guess) is the Damon as the new GT coach is trying to fit his inherited and "portaled" into the style he knows best from when he was coached. And, he likely knows a coach has to play with what he owns at the time, and to improve that with recruiting. When I played at Tech in the late 60's early 70's, Coach Hyder was good at capitalized on what he had. A particular game with UCLA shows me a contrast of coaching styles between a center-centric motion offense used by Coach Hyder and a guard-forward-centric motion offense used by Coach Wooden. Center Yunkus had a great game over Patterson, but Bibby, Valley, Wicks, and Rowe had an ever greater game, and we lost 121-90. Both teams played 12 players throughout the game, not just emptying the bench at the end. Without a great center yet, Coach Stoudamire may be looking to follow Wooden/Olson, while developing or obtaining as good enough center, and having subs that can carry on when needed. Below is the Georgia Tech - UCLA game in 1969, showing the contrast of the two styles of coaching focus, one on the center and one on all the others. The UCLA guards and forwards scored 101 to our guards and forwards 56, with our center getting 38 to their center 11. Wooden's style won 121-90, observed by Lute Olson, and likely the thinking of Damon Stoudamire. And most pro teams today have a version of the Wizard of Westwood's motion offense in a pattern to optimize their talents. There was in that one tournament in LA a look at 4 teams' offensive patterns, Tech with the shuffle, Princeton with the "Princeton offense", Indiana ? but before Bobby Knight took over, and UCLA with the guard-forward motion offense with high center. I may be wrong, but I think we will see the Wooden/Olson style again soon. [ATTACH type="full"]15211[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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