Whats the biggest adjustment from college to the NBA? How is the coaching different?
The defensive schemes are a lot different. There’s a lot of motion and pick and roll stuff in college, where in the NBA it’s a lot of quick hits to your best players right away. So a lot of players don’t come into the NBA with that principle. Another thing is that back when I was coming up, you had players who were in college three years or four years or whatever it had been. You develop a toughness for rebounding and getting loose balls with four years of college. Now, players are coming out of college so early that most of their skills are on the offensive side. So you have to work a lot on defense. A senior in college very seldom gets caught on a screen. He gets over it or under it. A freshman, a sophomore, will hit a screen and say ‘Oh, I need help!’ So that’s what you learn with four years of college; getting to places before you need to be there. Is defense a lost art? Yeah. Because every guy wants to have fun. They want to have fun on the break with the wide open dunk. But if yo
