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[gene kirkpatrick]

In the words of the late Billy Martin, "I feel strongly both ways."

Alex Goldblatt <alex.goldblatt at gmail.com> wrote:  Patric,

This looks like a joke to me, sorry.. You comparing your week-long
volleyball experience to Doc's work in the NBA?.. Travel to Dayton vs EMEA
2-week camps with the 6hrs jetleg?

I've been playing pro sports my entire life (hoops mostly). When you travel
overseas you have no idea how people on your team will handle this situation
until you face it. It might go absolutely unnoticed, it might put some
people to the bed for a couple of days in the 100% recovery mode. It all
starts on the plane - you have pretty much 48 hrs sleepless stretch just to
start with, you take your first practice sleep-walking, on the day 2 you
just wish someone will take you out of your misery. Usually - it takes
between 3 to 7 days just to get over.

Again - this is not about justification of what Doc is doing with this team,
this is about not having any doubts whatsoever. We always know better than
players and coaches. We always tend to discard things that we don't want to
acknowledge and that do not fit our take. The fact is that Doc is the
NBA-level coach that has the title of the NBA coach of the year, so probably
he knows what he's doing once in a while. We simply post on this forum for
fun.

AG

On 10/5/07, Patrick.Ryan at westover.af.mil 

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> SNIP Just a simple question: have you ever left your backyard?
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> Naah. I'm saying these things based on no prior experience whatsoever.
> Never played, coached or did anything with sports at any level before
> saying anything at all. That reminds me I need to trim some tree limbs
> so I can see the stars better at night when I'm out there sleeping.
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> And now that sarcasm is out of the way. Yes. I don't write critiques in
> this forum based on anything other than previous, deep, experiences,
> including personal and observed, across a spectrum of sport and life.
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> SNIP At least West coast?
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> Played for, and won a week long Air Force level volleyball championship
> (comparable to college level competition) in Ogden, UT on Friday,
> boarded the red-eye to Dayton, OH that evening, arrived at about 1 am,
> in bed by about 230am, got up at 5 am for the 40 min trip to Columbus,
> before playing and placing third at the USAVB National Championships
> (comparable to let's say the NBDL or CBA when it existed) that ended at
> approximately 1130 that night. Not quite west to east coast, but close
> enough.
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> SNIP International travel? Jetleg ever?
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> Traveled, eerily enough, to Italy (from once again, SLC, UT) for the
> International competition with European counterparts. Arrived on a
> Thursday ("direct" flight SLC - Philadelphia - Azores - Italy),
> conducted two practices (and yeah, it sucked, but we did it because we
> needed the work - we had two new guys on the team that we didn't know
> all that well - sound familiar?) on Friday before competition on Sat
> through the following Thursday.
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> I won't share the other travel experiences, just as physical, but of my
> full time career, but we'll just say they're extensive.
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> SNIP Ever tried to do 2-a-day after you cannot sleep at night?
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> See above. Did pretty well that tournament too (5th out of thirty). Got
> the night off from a scheduled practice after kicking butt on Tuesday to
> get us into the final single-elimination end of competition tournament.
> Then it felt earned as a reward instead of just par for the course. And
> this was at the end of a long season, not the very beginning of training
> camp when everyone is still fresh.
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> SNIP I'd suggest to apply some common sense before bashing anything or
> anyone.
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> Right now it just a cherry-picking on everything Doc does.
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> And I suggest not calling into question credentials without knowing who
> you're speaking to. The critique is based on empirical fact that Doc
> Rivers consistently cancels the second practice of two a days, practice
> after losses, and practice after back to backs while compiling an under
> five hundred career coaching record. If he garners success this year
> with that process then it will be proven effective, but since I can't
> read the future then there is only past record to evaluate upon in which
> it has consistently proven ineffective.
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