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Each trainer comes to a time when years of stress, nervousness, sleepless nights, bad food, tablets, alcohol and cigarettes do their job. For most of the top trainers, nothing was easy. The effort is enormous, and the reward is often not in line with the efforts made.
As one great master of the job told me, "When I finally became a European champion, after those initial minutes and two hugs and congratulations I looked around and thought, 'Fuck, is that all this? Is this the reward for all the nervousness, the heartburn, the insomnia and the torment you feel after the defeat? "They spit on you and criticize fools who have no idea of ​​basketball. It is a feeling of a feeling that makes it all worth it.Whenever I recall this period, I say that the suffering you pass through a season of top basketball is much higher than the moment you are at the top. Satisfaction often does not exist or you have to suffer yourself to have it ... ".

Phil Jackson did not endure. Stents, artificial hips and knees. Don Nelson has always had that "Let's have a drink ..." attitude and he always realized there were more important things in life, but he was also his way of choosing pressure.

Pat Riley did all the wonders again, and when Shaquille O'Neal started to hit him, he realized that he did not need such things in his life. He chose the best possible location for life and from the shadows helped Eriku Spoelstri. Better to have tanned and enjoy the light meals than to spend 14 hours in the office.

You just have to look at Thomas Thibodeau's face and see what a dedicated trainer looks like and a man who steadily thinks of tactics and tries to improve his team. Pupils to the floor, non-existent social life, no women, no children ...

That's what Larry Brown once called: "Unhappy love for basketball." Everyone who really loves this sport can be found in the words of a somewhat crazy Browna.

Larry's son is Gregg Popovich and he was exactly infected with the basketball virus of a former coach of the sport-minded Pomona Pitzer University and completely separated from the army.

Popovich passed an aviation school. The old story says he was supposed to be a CIA agent in Moscow, resigned in Langley, passed basic training, and spent some time acting as an agent on Turkey's border with Iran and Syria but that was all ....

Larry Brown raised a bunch of good coaches, and he did not stay long anyway, because he was so perfectionist that no one could handle it for more than two years.

He corrected all the existing and non-existent disadvantages of his players, interrupted the children's basketball to show them a fairly low posture, each day made five players and changed their mind. Again, um Larry Browna was created for basketball.

One of his friends long ago said, "He would make five planks a functional five." The champion was at all levels. He conquered the losers in the winners and then left. Whether it's Kansas, Detroit Pistons, LA Clippers. I caught myself laughing at seeing the SMU University becoming a serious team this season after it was over 20 years old. That's Larry Brown.

Gregg Popovich had absorbed all the basketball skills of Browne but learned something that Brown had never had - with his 70 plus years - of patience. Struggling to break his style on longer runs, to draw the maximum out of the average players, to overpower Brown's greatest manners-the desire to constantly change the team's team ...

Gregg Popovich followed Browna to San Antonio after Kansas, then assisted Don Nelson in the Warriors, and then returned to San Antonio where he became a general manager under various circumstances. His fans despised him after he had rid of then popular Bob Hilla and put himself as a chief coach ...