10-10-2010, 10:30 AM
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In the Paint
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Oakley likes the 3 My Egos
From the Star - LINK
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Popular opinion may be decidedly against LeBron James and his decision to hook up with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in some kind of Super Friends situation in Miami. Not Oakley.
“I love it. I think in the old days, you don’t win unless you get some right players to win with. You can say this and that about LeBron but Magic had Kareem, James Worthy, he had three or four hall of famers. Bird had three or four hall of famers. M.J. probably just had him and Scottie but when it was all said and done, you had great players around you to win.
“Cleveland didn’t have a great team and I don’t think he would have won in Cleveland because he was there seven years. They tried to get different guys to come in there, but there was no one equal to a Batman and Robin like they’ve got in Miami.”
Yes, Batman and Robin, but what about that other guy, the one who used to play here, the one who doesn’t have anywhere close to the kind of irascibility Oakley likes in a player?
“Bosh is a throw-in to me. He has talent but I think they’re the main two talents on that team . . . I mean, who you going to be in front of? I mean, A-B-C, he’s C, and that’s how it is.”
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and he wants to be on a coaching staff, but is finding it hard. In my dreams I see Alvin as head coach here, with Oak at his side.
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“Guys are not getting better after they come out (of school). Their talent level stays the same, three, four years. You’re expecting progress. You draft them because you’re taking a chance that when they come here they learn how to play and get their game better as years go past, but it’s just not that easy any more because they get on these teams and the coaches are not teaching.
“They give them a lot of stuff to do, but they’re not teaching them the structure of the game. You can give a guy a lot of stuff, but if he don’t understand the structure of the game it ain’t gonna work.”
Coming to a bench near you? Maybe not.
“They’re scared of me. I’ve been trying to get into the NBA for the last four or five years and I’ve talked to teams and people have talked to me like ‘it’s not about basketball, it’s how you come across.’ Hey, it’s the same way I played. When I made you win games and made fans come watch the games, it was okay; but now, I’m trying to get back into it. . . . I’m not one of those guys who’s going to beg them guys. They know where I’m at.”
Oakley always marched to the beat of his own drummer, which is another reason why he thinks some teams may shy away from putting him on their staff.
“Coaches don’t want to hire people because they think people know too much. They’ll get in the way of them. Every coach who coaches don’t know everything and a lot of coaches don’t want someone to be a good assistant beside ’em and point out things because it’s a threat to their job.”
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