The NBA does'nt give Isiah Thomas the respect that he deserves. Whenever Bird Magic and Jordan are mentioned you have to mention Isiah because he beat all three of them. That bad boys team could have won 4 in a row. Bird stole the ball one year and Isiah playing on one leg the next year. Isiah "Zeke" Thomas is a true champion and a cold blooded leader. There's no denying Isiah, he had the will and the heart.
Isiah's biggest problem was his mouth, after his inability to inbound the ball. He was a great player but the 87-88 Celtics were toast, age beat them, the 87-88 Bulls were not ready and the 87-88 Lakers beat the Pistons. So which year exactly did Zeke "Slay all 3" . If you're leaning on 1989 then you might want to remember the Celtics were the #8 seed and Bird didn't play....wow what a slaying.
@@adamr6794 you just contradicted yourself. The 88 Lakers did beat the Pistons with a subpar ( for the obvious reasons because of the ankle) Isiah. Birds absence in 89 isn't a greater excuse than Isiah s ankle. You demonstrated the lack of respect the above posters are lamenting. So, the Pistons from June 1st 1988 to June 14th 1989 slayed the three most popular NBA players in history. Anything else is an excuse.
There's nothing wrong with tough coaching, its abusive coaching that's the problem. Degrading, hitting, humiliating and emotionally abusing players is unnecessary. You can push a player to the limit and challenge him w/out doing all of that shit.
Israel Rosario Jr. “emotionally abusing players” that’s why it’s gotten soft. People consider everything that isn’t hugging and kissing “emotionally abusing” so now everything is up for interpretation, and if one random person says it’s “abuse” than someone loses a job or gets exploited on television
These kids are soft, especially the black youth (I’m a black man). These kids today are just too damn sensitive. A lot of them raised by their emotional mommas, a lot of time without a father figure.
I really don’t think that a normal person can have a say in this debate because I played Division I basketball and the thought of me budding heads with my head coach or screwing up on a play impacted whether or not I got minutes if any court time..... so this caters to special individuals I never felt like I was a scrub but I was a role player and the fear of making mistake is different for your role players.
I dont like MSU OR Izzo... but I 110% support Izzo or ANY Coach who makes players or people TOUGHER. Others that confuse a high voice tone or "harsh words" as an expression of dislike have completely lost the thread. Keep doin it Coach Izzo please. We as a society need to win this idiotic fight ...against ourselves.
When I played their were many good players who refused to take coaching and discipline. Basketball players especially are so damn sensitive and divas. Except the female players. Their weirdly much more thick skinned.
You have to because there dealing with a different generation of young people they can’t accept criticism it’s like disrespectful to them and not a game.
YOU Can't Coach To Please ! A Coach is not there to be your buddy. His responsibility is to help the players learn and grow not only as players but as people. Teaching Basketball and being that authority figure to them.
There's MORE ENTITLEMENT today with these kids because they have been told how good they are by EVERYONE but when these kids get to the next level they EXPECT to be cobbled by college coaches, and that just not going to happen. These new age kids are still being breast feed instead of drinking from a garden hose.
most of these players do not have fathers active in their upbringing..and they are babied and do not learn discipline in some important ways..Isiah was spot on..for once..
Big man was right today’s kids are treated like stars in elementary/ middle school because they are heavily courted by AAU coaches and college recruiters. Like everything else in this life if you add money than it’s bound to be corrupted.
I agree with everything Isaiah Thomas said but I wish he would have added on to the fact that his mother should not have had to do it by herself the importance of the father in the household a lot of these players especially that generation under 40 has that please look at me has to have attention look at LeBron James
Our society has become weak...from storming beaches to needing safe places from opinions...we are falling and will be collecting participation trophies all the way down.
Coach Wooden didn't do that. Coach K and Popovich don't do that. Therefore yelling at a player and running up on a player like a little kid isn't necessary to get the best out of a kid. Stop yelling and screaming just improve the content of what you're saying to your athlete.
I find it hilarious this topic has nothing to do with Lebron and people always complain about espn talking about Lebron, yet they can’t help but mention his name in the comment sectio😂
Times have changed. It used to be people got together, got shit done and then worried about friendship... "if they went to the bar". Now it's the other way around, people want to like each other, they want the same politics, same religion, same talking points, they want to be coddled and feel good before they even think about doing the work. They want friendship, and that's why things turn mediocre. Only iron sharpens iron
I really like what Isiah says about this: As a coach you've got to see those extra somethings inside your players, and to bring all of these out means you have to use different emotions - sometimes anger, sometimes love, sometimes both!
Isiah is not kidding. I remember his mother and brother at games , kinda poor and the center of attention. He was a good guy as well as a great player. I use to push a wheel chair bound student to games at court level and watched Isiah as a freshman as well as coach Knight. They were both amazing . Never forget Coach signaling to Ray Tolbert take a 3 point shot at mid court to crush the spirit of the visiting team when it was nothing but net.
Blah Blah Blah things were better in the old days when my mum could beat me and coaches could belittle players whenever they wanted. If I played college basketball I would hate getting chewed out by a coach making millions while the players get nothing. Must be a snowflake.
The difference is when I was a kid you earnt respect from your coach and you earnt your big pay check, now kids expect to be paid before proving them selves and they think they are a coaches equal.
Today's coaches is just like today's players. All they care about is the money so coaches don't want to rub their players the wrong way in the fear of getting fired. Only "POP" coaches w/o fear of his players. I need you to play defense because that's what win Championships and if you can't or won't do that for me, I just don't need you....period.
Pop is the one of the few NBA coaches with “tenure” though. A lot are pushovers to the players cause they will be fired if they get into altercations with players
Y'all still talking about this shit??? I could see if he slapped or kicked the dude.... he got in his face and yelled, I've seen worse when people get their order wrong at McDonald's!!!!
Taking constructive criticism and taking abuse are two separate things. I've coached before and I yelled at my players BUT I never verbally abused them, humiliated them in public, put my hands on them, or embarrased them purposely. I'd be clear on what the expectations and consequences were.
Isiah played under bobby knight. What do you think isiah is going to say lolol Ps there's a story about isiah's mom wielding a shotgun clint eastwood style to save isiah from the neighborhood gangs: Not every mother is the subject of an award-winning movie, but Isiah Thomas's mother Mary was. "A Mother's Courage" starred Alfre Woodard, who won an Emmy for her portrayal of a tireless and spirited single mother raising her nine children on Chicago's West Side and fighting City Hall to keep her family from being moved against their will to an even more dangerous housing project. In the most famous scene in the movie, gang members come to her front door to recruit the Thomas boys, and Mary greets them with a shotgun and a stern warning: "There's only one gang here, and that's the Thomas gang." ruclips.net/video/t2u4QufhelM/видео.html
I like Tom Izzo, I think he genuinely loves his players. But don't make excuses for him losing his temper for a few minutes. I've done it with my kids and later felt sorry about it.
The aim of coaching is not to be tough on players. Its to get the best out of them. If that means being tough, then be tough. But if being "tough" isn't getting the desired results then you have to change your approach. Some coaches are just assholes. People will follow you if your methods actually work. A lot of these coaches don't know what the heck they are doing. And they hide being the excuse of players being too soft.
I completely agree. Which is why when I’m coaching my AAU team I challenge my players to be the best version of themselves at all times. The games become easy for my guys because our practices are so demanding. We’re competing in every drill. I’m not a yeller and a screamer like Izzo but I don’t accept anything less than they’re personal best. And I win because of it
This is a topic that has not even mentioned Lebron and what's Ironic is that theres alot of comments mentioning here more specifically his haters. They complain about how Espn talks about him alot and you want to know one of the reasons Espn talks about him so much? Its bc that's what most of these ppl want even if it's just to criticize him.
Isaiah and jalen are my guys.Ive listened to the segment.John thompson,dean smith,john wooden,and even jalens coach at Michigan,were all successful,without all of the out of control behavior. One on one in timeouts ,or when u take him out of the game is most effective in molding and teaching a young athlete.Yelling furiously all the time ,and berating players isnt a philosophy those coaches i mentioned adhered to.
Isiah You was a great player but when you talk a see a growth a mature a mind that not a lot of the ex nba players have. I know that Paul Pierce did not grow at all
I couldn't or would've played for Bob Knight.......... because I don't play that "putting your hands me" shit!!! However......I could play for Tom Izzo or any other "so-called" tough coach.
Seeing conversations like this really makes me sick it comes back to the fact that these coaches make millions off of the back of these kids who get nothing your children will never have to work a day in their life why because I and countless other young men have made it that way for them so you're damn right you should be scared of me as a player because I hold the keys to your success
I had no idea that players liked being screamed at on national television by a millionaire in the NCAA tournament and he can't even get a part time job. Nobody is really watching that... right
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. He gave up 2 lottery picks for Eddy Curry, he compounded the Knicks' cap problems, and he was accused of workplace sexual harassment and ended up settling for $11.5 million. He was a horrible GM and he's an even worse person.
You're right that there's an entire generation of soft parents...BUT that doesn't give a coach to put his hands on a kid, verbally abuse him, humiliate him in public, or try to purposely embarras him. That's not the behavior I'm trying to teach young people.
Israel Rosario Jr. it’s not what you do but how you do it. Some coaches will not call out Lebron. However, we have seen on several occasions Lebron body language being garbage towards his teammates.
@@sportfanatic5339 LeBron is a unique example because he has so much power in the organizations he's played for (outside of MIA) from day 1. So a coach isn't going to be able to do shit in those cases. I'm talking generally. There is no reason to abuse players or people for that matter.
@@sportfanatic5339 there shouldn't, and I"m not talking about LeBron. I'm talking about players OVERALL. This isn't about LeBron James, this is about coaches crossing a line with players overall that they shouldn't.
I would make the argument that coaches aren’t afraid; the players as a majority lack mental toughness. Welcome to the harvest of Every Kid Gets a Trophy.
This is Division I. I don’t feel sorry for millionaires coaches who show their face on TV. They signed the contract deal with it. But Division II, III, and NAIA are still the same. No TV, no rich alumni, and good coaching.
Sports usually is a reflection of our society today's players college and pros are being taught, coached and raised to not have to accept accountability and responsibility for their actions. Today's players as well as today's younger generation are being taught that it's not okay to fail. People have to realize this failure can build character because it can teach you how to get up if you don't fall at something how can you find out how tough you are?
Bottom line the adults have been getting progressively weaker and worse. So the kids end up being progressively worse. Then society goes to shit and it has. LeBron doesn’t want to be coached he wants assistant coach Lou.
Everyone gets a trophy syndrome that's the other big problem, doesn't matter if I try or not or listen, etc I am going to get a trophy anyway! Then when they get to where it is all or nothing they do not have the discipline and drive and they look for a scapegoat, the coach bullied me or he yells to much, etc. Hell I remember PE class at middle school getting yelled at in regular old gym class by the PE teacher not because he was mean he was really cool but when it came time for competition it was game face time and at the end win or lose he wouldn't degrade anyone who didn't win he would pat them on the back and say try harder and the next time he would mix the teams up and it worked none of that your all winners in my book bullshit.
"Great players want to be coached" jalen 💯
LeBron aint
the zen master turned kobe from a "show boat" into a killer, His game against barbosa in the olympics......pure skill
@@FirstPlace97 Jordan not either it took dean smith and phil jackson to buy in
Great players want to be coached...but they don't want to be verbally, physically and emotionally abused. There's a line that shouldn't be crossed.
@krion of Laguna Lebron is a coach
When Isiah speaks, people listen. That's because he slayed the big 3... MJ, Bird, and Magic. All in one year.
at1212 b lifelong Lakers fan and he sure did!! The Bad Boys!
The NBA does'nt give Isiah Thomas the respect that he deserves. Whenever Bird Magic and Jordan are mentioned you have to mention Isiah because he beat all three of them. That bad boys team could have won 4 in a row. Bird stole the ball one year and Isiah playing on one leg the next year. Isiah "Zeke" Thomas is a true champion and a cold blooded leader. There's no denying Isiah, he had the will and the heart.
He had the highest assist average of all time
Isiah's biggest problem was his mouth, after his inability to inbound the ball. He was a great player but the 87-88 Celtics were toast, age beat them, the 87-88 Bulls were not ready and the 87-88 Lakers beat the Pistons. So which year exactly did Zeke "Slay all 3" . If you're leaning on 1989 then you might want to remember the Celtics were the #8 seed and Bird didn't play....wow what a slaying.
@@adamr6794 you just contradicted yourself.
The 88 Lakers did beat the Pistons with a subpar ( for the obvious reasons because of the ankle) Isiah.
Birds absence in 89 isn't a greater excuse than Isiah s ankle.
You demonstrated the lack of respect the above posters are lamenting.
So, the Pistons from June 1st 1988 to June 14th 1989 slayed the three most popular NBA players in history.
Anything else is an excuse.
Or Players and society are to sensitive to take tough coaching
agree
There’s tough coaching...and then there’s Bob Knight. The problem is ppl knowing the difference between the two.
They can take it!
There's nothing wrong with tough coaching, its abusive coaching that's the problem. Degrading, hitting, humiliating and emotionally abusing players is unnecessary. You can push a player to the limit and challenge him w/out doing all of that shit.
Israel Rosario Jr. “emotionally abusing players” that’s why it’s gotten soft. People consider everything that isn’t hugging and kissing “emotionally abusing” so now everything is up for interpretation, and if one random person says it’s “abuse” than someone loses a job or gets exploited on television
Isaiah's mother was wonderful. She held a shot gun up against a street gang that came to get Isaiah into their gang.
I can listen to Zeke talk all day long. The guy is brilliant.
Him and Magic are the smartest players to ever play the game in my opinion.
These kids are soft, especially the black youth (I’m a black man). These kids today are just too damn sensitive. A lot of them raised by their emotional mommas, a lot of time without a father figure.
You're absolutely right, and this gets overlooked in today's society.
well there is a lot of pressure for black men to act tough that you are unfortunately are brainwashed by
@@gforce97 don’t speak on black men regarding this issue if you aren’t black please and thank you.
Total facts
Isiah is the man. Only guy who made Jordan uneasy.
I really don’t think that a normal person can have a say in this debate because I played Division I basketball and the thought of me budding heads with my head coach or screwing up on a play impacted whether or not I got minutes if any court time..... so this caters to special individuals I never felt like I was a scrub but I was a role player and the fear of making mistake is different for your role players.
I dont like MSU OR Izzo... but I 110% support Izzo or ANY Coach who makes players or people TOUGHER. Others that confuse a high voice tone or "harsh words" as an expression of dislike have completely lost the thread. Keep doin it Coach Izzo please. We as a society need to win this idiotic fight ...against ourselves.
When I played their were many good players who refused to take coaching and discipline. Basketball players especially are so damn sensitive and divas. Except the female players. Their weirdly much more thick skinned.
I also think football has this problem in a FAR LESS way
because they are lesbians
@@johnthursday2 ahahah
You have to because there dealing with a different generation of young people they can’t accept criticism it’s like disrespectful to them and not a game.
Thought that was J.J. Watt for a second🤣🤣🤣
YOU Can't Coach To Please ! A Coach is not there to be your buddy. His responsibility is to help the players learn and grow not only as players but as people. Teaching Basketball and being that authority figure to them.
I wouldnt even mention Isiah Thomas in the role of president or coach after what he did to the Knicks.
The Knicks did it to themselves. Bad owner
Hopefully yall get KD and become relevant again.
@@garybroner9930 He was in charge for couple of years, he did awfull trades and lost good pics that would be good players.
It sounds like society is getting too narcissistic when the goal was to get more sensitive for each other.
Boomers are the most narcissistic generation ever.
There's MORE ENTITLEMENT today with these kids because they have been told how good they are by EVERYONE but when these kids get to the next level they EXPECT to be cobbled by college coaches, and that just not going to happen. These new age kids are still being breast feed instead of drinking from a garden hose.
I disagree. Coaches should be more sensitive to players. Bobby Knight was extreme.
And that’s why someone weakminded and sensitive as you should never be in a leadership position
Ke'Andre Green Wow! gotta love the anonymity of the Internet...
2enchant He’s right though.
You are basically a ‘Man’ who has been castrated. You are fragile and weak.
ESPN playing the Race Card again.....shocking.
Pat looks so out of place, lol. Go Pistons!
Sorry Geno, that's because the players don't get paid for what they are doing so of course they are gunna fight back when you are on some bullshit
✌☮ to the God's and the one nation crew 🌐..
Lebron needs a coach like that!
That was how the GOAT (MJ) was coached.
nerf kids want a nerf life
most of these players do not have fathers active in their upbringing..and they are babied and do not learn discipline in some important ways..Isiah was spot on..for once..
This is just a weak ass society, time period, and generation
"Great players want to be coached" someone please tell Lebron that
Give him a real one
Lebron james is at fault for this 1.
Not even
Nobody liked Isiah not even his mother who fed him with a slingshot when he was a baby.
Isiah is dropping gems! 👏🏾
Isiah broke it down perfectly 💯.
Big man was right today’s kids are treated like stars in elementary/ middle school because they are heavily courted by AAU coaches and college recruiters. Like everything else in this life if you add money than it’s bound to be corrupted.
And then they end wasting their talent, if they have one, not working enough on the game because they think they're already the best
Lorenzo Bontorin True!
Isaiah “ coach ... and mother”!! The role of the parent is the foundation.
I agree with everything Isaiah Thomas said but I wish he would have added on to the fact that his mother should not have had to do it by herself the importance of the father in the household a lot of these players especially that generation under 40 has that please look at me has to have attention look at LeBron James
The home and school working together is what's missing today.
Our society has become weak...from storming beaches to needing safe places from opinions...we are falling and will be collecting participation trophies all the way down.
We've gotten too used to blocking out anything that makes us uncomfortable.
Fuck off with that boomer mentality
lemme guess u own at least one ar15
King Frog fuck off with your sensitive ass offended by everything mentality
Coach: You see that guy over there?
Player: Yes Coach
Coach: He took your last Kit Kat Bar
Player: Aaaahhhhhhhh!
Coach Wooden didn't do that. Coach K and Popovich don't do that. Therefore yelling at a player and running up on a player like a little kid isn't necessary to get the best out of a kid. Stop yelling and screaming just improve the content of what you're saying to your athlete.
I find it hilarious this topic has nothing to do with Lebron and people always complain about espn talking about Lebron, yet they can’t help but mention his name in the comment sectio😂
Devin Harris 💯💯💯💯💯💯
I learned a long time ago that people will never be satisfied. Most are selfish idiots.
They brung lebron up in the video tho🤨
Factsss
Howard Davis they literally his name once lmao they didn’t talk about him in depth. Good try tho
Dude was feeling that speech by Zeek so much he gave an awkward clap lol 2:29
I felt that speech too lol
It’s like Isiah was accidentally coaching him
Low key made me wanna dunk on Rose
😂
Ask Pop an Timmy how to coach and be coached
Times have changed. It used to be people got together, got shit done and then worried about friendship... "if they went to the bar". Now it's the other way around, people want to like each other, they want the same politics, same religion, same talking points, they want to be coddled and feel good before they even think about doing the work. They want friendship, and that's why things turn mediocre. Only iron sharpens iron
I really like what Isiah says about this: As a coach you've got to see those extra somethings inside your players, and to bring all of these out means you have to use different emotions - sometimes anger, sometimes love, sometimes both!
i agree , i seen this in the Army.
Isiah is not kidding. I remember his mother and brother at games , kinda poor and the center of attention. He was a good guy as well as a great player. I use to push a wheel chair bound student to games at court level and watched Isiah as a freshman as well as coach Knight. They were both amazing . Never forget Coach signaling to Ray Tolbert take a 3 point shot at mid court to crush the spirit of the visiting team when it was nothing but net.
What's up, Knight?
Ppl use to defend Bobby Knight when he was abusing kids 🤦🏾♂️
Jalen clean today! Nice suit bro...
Zeke should get Jalen's tailor number
Blah Blah Blah things were better in the old days when my mum could beat me and coaches could belittle players whenever they wanted. If I played college basketball I would hate getting chewed out by a coach making millions while the players get nothing. Must be a snowflake.
Right on Isiah Thomas 🏀🥇🏅🎖️🏆
Great players want to be coached. Do you listen LBJ?
Doc and Pop are the only coaches that get on their players
Thibodeau and maybe Kerr
Tyron Lou, Spo yell at players. Mainly behind closed doors. Jason Kidd does. Nick nurse too.
The difference is when I was a kid you earnt respect from your coach and you earnt your big pay check, now kids expect to be paid before proving them selves and they think they are a coaches equal.
Today's coaches is just like today's players. All they care about is the money so coaches don't want to rub their players the wrong way in the fear of getting fired. Only "POP" coaches w/o fear of his players. I need you to play defense because that's what win Championships and if you can't or won't do that for me, I just don't need you....period.
Pop is the one of the few NBA coaches with “tenure” though. A lot are pushovers to the players cause they will be fired if they get into altercations with players
Y'all still talking about this shit??? I could see if he slapped or kicked the dude.... he got in his face and yelled, I've seen worse when people get their order wrong at McDonald's!!!!
DON'T WATCH!
Bobby Knight is the type of coach that players of this era desperately need.
These players would be crying
@@tcgrant3267 but they would be fundamentally sound....
There is taking it to far, Belichick has the right balance
Go take your meds grandpa lmao
@@tcgrant3267 they wouldn't be crying. Knight would get his ass kicked trying some of that stuff on today's players.
Too much insecurity and not being able to take constructive criticism. There is a reason only a few stay in the league for so long.
Taking constructive criticism and taking abuse are two separate things. I've coached before and I yelled at my players BUT I never verbally abused them, humiliated them in public, put my hands on them, or embarrased them purposely. I'd be clear on what the expectations and consequences were.
Israel Rosario Jr. No place for abuse. No doubt.
Always loved Isiah, hate how MJ railroaded him off the Olympic Team!! Jalen Rose's analogies are always on point, great job bruh!
How do you coach a guy who just signs a 300 million dollar contract??? I might slap my coach if he come at me sideways and I’m worth that much!
I agree 100% with Isaiah Thomas..in the words of the great Anansi Spider, “Angry Gets Shit One”‼️🏀
Isiah played under bobby knight. What do you think isiah is going to say lolol
Ps there's a story about isiah's mom wielding a shotgun clint eastwood style to save isiah from the neighborhood gangs:
Not every mother is the subject of an award-winning movie, but Isiah Thomas's mother Mary was. "A Mother's Courage" starred Alfre Woodard, who won an Emmy for her portrayal of a tireless and spirited single mother raising her nine children on Chicago's West Side and fighting City Hall to keep her family from being moved against their will to an even more dangerous housing project.
In the most famous scene in the movie, gang members come to her front door to recruit the Thomas boys, and Mary greets them with a shotgun and a stern warning: "There's only one gang here, and that's the Thomas gang."
ruclips.net/video/t2u4QufhelM/видео.html
Just because a guy is THE coach doesn't mean he's a GOOD coach .....Sometimes you have a good team being coached by a terd
That's what happens when the biggest name in basketball is uncoachable.
I like Tom Izzo, I think he genuinely loves his players. But don't make excuses for him losing his temper for a few minutes. I've done it with my kids and later felt sorry about it.
@@johnhawthorne2201
Being yelled at excessively as children is common in one group: violent criminals.
Players need to check their egos when they play the game. Nobody is above the team, end of story.
The aim of coaching is not to be tough on players. Its to get the best out of them. If that means being tough, then be tough. But if being "tough" isn't getting the desired results then you have to change your approach. Some coaches are just assholes. People will follow you if your methods actually work. A lot of these coaches don't know what the heck they are doing. And they hide being the excuse of players being too soft.
This is why Popovich is the Goat
I completely agree. Which is why when I’m coaching my AAU team I challenge my players to be the best version of themselves at all times. The games become easy for my guys because our practices are so demanding. We’re competing in every drill. I’m not a yeller and a screamer like Izzo but I don’t accept anything less than they’re personal best. And I win because of it
Isaiah was on point
This is a topic that has not even mentioned Lebron and what's Ironic is that theres alot of comments mentioning here more specifically his haters. They complain about how Espn talks about him alot and you want to know one of the reasons Espn talks about him so much? Its bc that's what most of these ppl want even if it's just to criticize him.
Nobody wanted to mention how soft everything has become?
Isaiah and jalen are my guys.Ive listened to the segment.John thompson,dean smith,john wooden,and even jalens coach at Michigan,were all successful,without all of the out of control behavior. One on one in timeouts ,or when u take him out of the game is most effective in molding and teaching a young athlete.Yelling furiously all the time ,and berating players isnt a philosophy those coaches i mentioned adhered to.
💯 Isiah Thomas speaks facts
👏👏👏 Great job, Jalen & Zeke.
Isiah You was a great player but when you talk a see a growth a mature a mind that not a lot of the ex nba players have. I know that Paul Pierce did not grow at all
Tough love is needed in sports.
no it aint
@DAN THE MAN Yes Sir, I agree.
This is truth. Coach yells at player they can get up and leave the game, the team. Look at Kevin Porter Jr
Or players don't want to be coached hard and society finds being coached hard is sensitive
I couldn't or would've played for Bob Knight.......... because I don't play that "putting your hands me" shit!!! However......I could play for Tom Izzo or any other "so-called" tough coach.
Isaiah was coached by Bob Knight..any one else is nothing
Seeing conversations like this really makes me sick it comes back to the fact that these coaches make millions off of the back of these kids who get nothing your children will never have to work a day in their life why because I and countless other young men have made it that way for them so you're damn right you should be scared of me as a player because I hold the keys to your success
Young players are not interested in this knowledge. Thank you guys for speaking on this issue
I had no idea that players liked being screamed at on national television by a millionaire in the NCAA tournament and he can't even get a part time job. Nobody is really watching that... right
Nobody comes to watch coaches and referees plays!!! It’s all about the players.
You’re right they dont come to watch the coach play but they do come to watch coaches coach
Isiah Thomas should be a GM again I think he got unfair treatment the last time he was
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. He gave up 2 lottery picks for Eddy Curry, he compounded the Knicks' cap problems, and he was accused of workplace sexual harassment and ended up settling for $11.5 million. He was a horrible GM and he's an even worse person.
Lmaoo he drafted Tmac and traded him away. He a great player, decent coach but horrible GM.
He's on par with the Billy Kings of the world.
Thank you Isaiah, say that to the idiotic people who can't understand that trying to ruin the game we love
Geno is 💯% correct. It all starts with parenting and the media. Parents are S-O-F-T or manipulative. Look no further than Lavar.
You're right that there's an entire generation of soft parents...BUT that doesn't give a coach to put his hands on a kid, verbally abuse him, humiliate him in public, or try to purposely embarras him. That's not the behavior I'm trying to teach young people.
Israel Rosario Jr. it’s not what you do but how you do it. Some coaches will not call out Lebron. However, we have seen on several occasions Lebron body language being garbage towards his teammates.
@@sportfanatic5339 LeBron is a unique example because he has so much power in the organizations he's played for (outside of MIA) from day 1. So a coach isn't going to be able to do shit in those cases. I'm talking generally. There is no reason to abuse players or people for that matter.
Israel Rosario Jr. you’re proving my point. There shouldn’t be a different set of rules because talent level. Nobody is bigger than then the company.
@@sportfanatic5339 there shouldn't, and I"m not talking about LeBron. I'm talking about players OVERALL. This isn't about LeBron James, this is about coaches crossing a line with players overall that they shouldn't.
These kids ate raised soft as hell. Parents arnt helping either.
Said by player who choked one his coach
But yeah Isiah Thomas has one of the biggest attitude turnaround after retirement
huh are you thinking of spreewell?
Great topic
I would make the argument that coaches aren’t afraid; the players as a majority lack mental toughness. Welcome to the harvest of Every Kid Gets a Trophy.
Well said Isaiah
This is Division I. I don’t feel sorry for millionaires coaches who show their face on TV. They signed the contract deal with it. But Division II, III, and NAIA are still the same. No TV, no rich alumni, and good coaching.
Everyone is too scared to bring up the race issue. Too many white coaches are scared to discipline black players for fear of being called a racist
My man zeke gets it ...
jimmy butler i hope you are taking down notes. you are acting like diva in your podcast about sixers.
I LOVE hearing Isiah Thomas speak.
Anyone who was coached by Bob Knight and survives understands tough coaches.
If your a good coach it shouldn't matter how you talk to the players. That a lame excuse to be abusive to a kid
Where the fuck does Isiah Thomas get the skill to be this articulate? Not saying he never had it but more highlighting that this man is a master
I call BS. You think Nick Saban is worried about being too tough on someone?
Yeah when in the NFL big boy league otherwise you have a point
Jalen is smart they just discredit him because Kobe dropped 81 on his head. But actually it's 18 points his wife on the other hand though 🤦🏼♂️
Sports usually is a reflection of our society today's players college and pros are being taught, coached and raised to not have to accept accountability and responsibility for their actions. Today's players as well as today's younger generation are being taught that it's not okay to fail. People have to realize this failure can build character because it can teach you how to get up if you don't fall at something how can you find out how tough you are?
Bottom line the adults have been getting progressively weaker and worse. So the kids end up being progressively worse. Then society goes to shit and it has. LeBron doesn’t want to be coached he wants assistant coach Lou.
Everyone gets a trophy syndrome that's the other big problem, doesn't matter if I try or not or listen, etc I am going to get a trophy anyway! Then when they get to where it is all or nothing they do not have the discipline and drive and they look for a scapegoat, the coach bullied me or he yells to much, etc. Hell I remember PE class at middle school getting yelled at in regular old gym class by the PE teacher not because he was mean he was really cool but when it came time for competition it was game face time and at the end win or lose he wouldn't degrade anyone who didn't win he would pat them on the back and say try harder and the next time he would mix the teams up and it worked none of that your all winners in my book bullshit.