of head coaching experience put me in a lot of situations i'd seen a lot of basketball and had to like deal with it not not just sit back and say hey maybe try this coach i mean i was dealing with it on the front lines and some pretty high level euro league and things like that um and you just have to when you go up there to put up that game plan and tell them how to guard the personnel it's got to be solid and one and if you do that then as you know nba guys are also on the other side of that they really want you to coach them they really want you to put them in a position where they can have a good game they want you to help them they want to succeed and and if you can show that you're able to do that then then the thing turns pretty quickly i think um i spent a year with chris finch in new orleans um who also coached in the bbl yeah coached the rio grande valley vipers like you did um one of the things he mentioned to me during our time together was the the bbl and coaching the g-league as well gave him opportunities to think outside the box and that's something that pascal just talked about with us an hour ago yeah and certainly you've been credited with that how much did those opportunities give you a chance to sort of develop that that different way of thinking yeah well it it develops on you you almost get forced out of the box you know i mean you know what i mean it's not like you're sitting here saying oh you know i'm gonna be a creative outside the box thinker i mean you just you know what are the situations i don't know you get on the bus and you're you're getting a huge traffic jam and the game that you know you missed the starting time by an hour and you you know what or you're down to six players literally and you're like trying to figure out well how are we gonna get through this you know a six game well we're gonna hold the ball for the whole first quarter you know we're gonna run the shot clock you know we're gonna shorten take one quarter out of it you know i mean just in the in every thing you can think of you know like i don't know like uh just all the some of the stuff in different forms you know there was a one team over there that had this point guard that just absolutely controlled the game like every game he was like this NUMBER_TOKEN year old dude and he just was awesome right and i just decided you know what we're just never gonna let him bring the ball up the floor and we're you know we're just never gonna let him just run at his the game whatever else happens i'm willing to live with you know things like that you would just try because you were probably such an underdog and um you might as well throw something up there and do it i mean there was there was tons of uh tons of stuff like that but it all came right back to the same thing to answer kind of like your earlier question was you know my first year in england well on the on the second return when i was just coaching there was a team called the london towers who had won everything for like you know they were like golden state of
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