Why Coaching In Europe Is So Different From NBA 

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NBA divas will cry if the euro coach is coaching them.

Do you really think that European coaches only shouting to the players? In Europe coaches are like a fathers to the players, they know what they’re doing during their free time, teaching them to read a books, how to behave, actually teaching them to be better person in life! And this sport should be finally, one way to become better humans! But in NBA everything is abt money money and money, it’s cultural thing, nothing to do with sport, same is any other field the difference between USA and other parts of the World!

When a player can fire the coach because he doesn't like a play or the way he is used, the coach has no way to really direct his team.

Dule Vujosevic ( the man who choked Bogdanovic), used to visit his players' apartments at night to ensure they were asleep. Upon hearing of anyone heading out, he would escort them home from clubs, assign domestic tasks, such as reading books, which they had to discuss later. He's the architect behind players like Bogdanovic, Milutinov, Pekovic, Bertans, Vesely, Lauvergne, Westermann and many others. A legend.

Just to be clear: Thumbnail is not color corrected - that's Željko Obradović's natural skin color during the game

as long as the coach is yelling at you, it means he cares. the problem is when he stops yelling, that's when you screwed up. that is the golden rule in Serbia

European basketball is sport, NBA is a show where the stars MUST shine to entertain the audience.

In Europa coaches have to be loud because of the atmosphere, you cant hear a guy next to you

seeing obradovic turning purple and shouting to the players was one of the highlights of the game

In my opinion, European coaches are much better and a more of a mastermind than the coaches we have in the nba. And I am from Canada and watch both EL and NBA

nba is like spoiled kids with rich parents who let them do what they want

One thing not addressed is the different culture of club/franchise ownership in Europe and in the NBA. A lot of European teams are property of a club and it's associates (fans that have membership in the club) so the fans are much more invested in the success of their team and it creates a culture of the Club being bigger than anyone in it (players, coaches, etc). So therefore the coach is the first one to have to uphold that. You as a player are never more important than the team, and fans like to see coaches reminding players of that. Either play for the team or get out. In the NBA franchises are owned by moguls who care more about the brand than the culture, in most cases, so a big star player always has more leeway to get a coach fired or get the players they want around him, and the owner accepts it because it doesn't want to see its franchise devalued by the loss of a superstar. And this different dynamic is also important to understand why coaches are allowed to act differently.

Europe is about basketball. USA is about marketing. I am blessed to raise in Europe and be so passionate for the sport I love.

'Gigi Datome shame on you ' :D :D :D

Based on intensity EL reg season = NBA playoffs EL playoffs = game 7 conf finals EL F4 = game 7 of NBA Finals Thats why everything feels different Like why scoring is not as high, why so many schemes used, why the intensity of the crowd and players differ

It's funny how basketball coaches in Hollywood films are portrayed closer to European coaches.

NBA coaches are cheerleaders. European coaches are warlords.

Another reason for this difference is the fact that every european club has youth programs. When you get to the pro team in that club you are supposed to perform from minute one, if you are not ready, you don't get there, there is not much time for adaptation. Of course there are transfers from other clubs or whatever, but the same logic applies. NBA teams are responsible for the growth and development of rookies alongside the management of superstars.

Imagining Lebron under Zeljko Obradovic... no i can t 😂 . Great video btw 👌

Coaches in the NBA just have to find the way to make everybody happy. Strategy comes later

Popović is NBA's european coach 😂

I live in Indiana and grew up on NCAA and NBA hoops with an eye on Europe in the times of Oscar, Sabonis, and Drazen. I barely watch the NBA anymore, but still enjoy watching NCAA and Euroleague much more. When I was growing up we had Gene Keady, Bobby Knight, and Digger Phelps as the coaches of the major college teams in Indiana. Very aggressive coaching styles.

NBA coaches are media representatives. If you cant do your rotations, bench players - u are not coaching

I recently saw a German second tier pro game live in which the two coaches were playing chess with how to play and defend the pick&roll all night, in just a regular season game with a medium importance. You have to be deep into the game to appreciate it, and it doesn't make sense from an entertainment standpoint to encourage that style of play, but it's a good illustration of one of the differences the video mentioned. Additionally, it's worth noting that the set-play mindset in euro basketball is waning, or at least attenuating. I'm a youth coach, and the guidelines we get from the national federation are much more oriented towards creativity and individual skill than they used to be (esp. here in Germany, we over-relied on strict set-play decision trees for a number of years, and it showed, among others, in how bad the national team fared against flexible defenses). And no. I don't choke my players. 😅

Tough coaches make great teams, weak coaches they need to rely on talents of single players

oh yea, which you choose?player power?or coach power? the right team will choose coach the moneymaker team will choose players

in nba is more managing _in europe is a clean true coaching_ in europe team means more than in usa - in my opinion _in europe another mentality

Great video showcasing some of the differences based on the structure of each league, the salary scale, the duration of the season as well as different rules.

Excellent analysis once again and an interesting one that doesn't get talked about much !! I love how you guys always show some great footage in the background - I've never seen that coach choke Bogdanovic before - that would cause a whole riot on court 😂😂

There is a good chance that the whole NBA organization is "scripted" at this point. So we here talking about NBA refs? NBA is entertainment , its not a sport. Basketball is a sport and requires coaching

because every game matters in Europe. you can' have a player just try to play hero and miss because one point missed is like missing a shot in the NBA playoffs. every game in Europe is a playoffs game

Really interested to hear your opinions!

It will never change because the sports cultures are so different. In America, sport is about superstars, marketing, tv ratings, merchandise - it's entertainment first and foremost, so the coach's job is to facilitate that. Americans care deeply about the narrative of the great moments in sports (the hail mary touchdown, the great last second comeback, the underdog knocking out the champion, the grand slam homerun). Superstars are almost always at the center of that and fans are there to be consumers of that; their money makes it possible. In Europe, club culture and respect for/knowledge of the sport is far more important. European basketball fans are always fan of the club first, not of one superstar player. So there it's the coach's job to make sure the fans get the best performance from every player, no matter how famous a player is. Winning is more important than making a show out of it. Watch the passion of the Partizan crowd before every home game and compare that to the average Lakers fan at Staples Center eating popcorn; that's the difference.

As you said the NBA should do something to empower coaches more. Unfortunately the easy way of doing business is overpowering star players who think they are larger than life and making life super easy for offense. This might make you sell a dozen tickets more but it will kill the game on the long run. And we have already started seeing that. It's not Euroleague which is catching up, it's the NBA going backwards.

you remind me so much of Michael Ballack , good video as always in my opinion ...

i like your content man i dont know a lot of Europe basketball and i always wonder how it is over in Europe's thanks again

The thing is all these conversation lead to the same place. In Euroleague, even though the players are very very good, the pool of differential players (i don't know, say a Tavares, Micic or Larkin at their best) is very low. So your tactics better be on point. In the NBA the man management (an important skill as any for coaching btw) part is super important. Did Phil Jackson ever discuss tactics and psychology with Rodman to get the most outta him? Nah, he just kept him happy letting him party like animal. It's a very rare case but this are the kind of players you get in the NBA

Bro really had to put that Mike James 3+1 on KP🙄

regarding the flexibility and player exhaustion: some european domestic leagues, example turkish league, has foreign player restrictions. in light of that fenerbahçe or efes can/must rest players in domestic games, they dominate the domestic league anyways. they deploy the youngsters or bench players. back in the day teams signed players just for the euroleague squad.

The NBA has been and probably always will be a superstars league. As a result anything an NBA coach says or whatever schemes they cook up will never go beyond being a "suggestion". So yes, absolutely, NBA coaches might very well be the most redundant position in all of professional sports. Not because they're bad at their job, but simply because everyone knows that their opinion matters less than the star players.

European coaches are not negative, but simply passionate and finally when the game is over and when the spotlights shot down they love all those boys (players) like their own children!!!🤨🤔😒😊👍

Great video, but I don't see you shouting out NBA Digitale channel for the interview with the former Eurolig coach Erdem Can!

I learned from my experience as a freshman in HS when I played on the C-team. The coach yelled a lot and he had control whether or not you will play. I learned that life was not fair as nepotism existed and his son was also on the team working as a mole. That son relayed team gossip to his dad. One of the worst experiences in my life as a person but a life lesson nonetheless.

The way you pronounced Latrell Sprewell's name was a certified knee slapper haha

great video

I love this channel. Keep hustling guys.

Nice video. I want more content like this 🔥

Euroleague: Every possession matters. Every game is war. NBA: Lol, we're only in it for the TikTok views.

regular NBA is mostly harlem globetrotters style basketball

It actually does make the nba coaches job easier. They do active game coaching for 1 month and that's if they earned a spot in playoffs. Until then, what they do is more managing rather than coaching. It may not be easier job if you are not talented in management but sure is easier if we only look at it coaching wise.

In europe there is hierarchy and history behind clubs that is in some cases older than 100years so there is alot of responsibility of how you represent this teams, failing to acknowledge that and you will be replaced(there is no buts). failing to preform good and you will be "punished" the team will lose money,sponsores and angry the spectators which could and did lead to getting kicked out/relegate from the league, in america there is no repercussions to having a bad season(there is always next year) in euroleague there is a big chance that there is no next year so everything matters. The higer the highs the lower the lowes and because of that the league is much more emotional, players sometimes forget and get cocky and the coach is there to remind them with no fear as it should be. Just my opinion( i remember when beckham tryed to be bigger than manchester united and ferguson throwed a football boot in his head and cut open his forehad), if you dont live in europe its hard to understand...

Strange that you didn't mention one of the most successful European coaches, Sergio Scariolo, 5 time eurochampion, silver and bronze olympic medalist and 2019 world champion. He hits an excellent balance and has been cited as probable Raptors head coach after a stint as assistant coach.

In the NBA coaches show up to games in sweatpants, in the EuroLeague they show up in suits. Really tells you everything about their roles and how seriously they’re taken

I Europe it's a sports first, business second. In USA it's purely business. I mean look at how they swap players around every few months. You see players in one uniform, go to sleep and wake up and players already in new uniforms.

NBA is more concern of profit or business side, europe is more of a competitive old school league that is more of the team than a personal accolades in NBA

Agreed, just got reminded when kyrie said one say i can be the coach and next day kd can be the coach

I like ur jersey collection, i strongly think you need a thanansis jersey up there

I've never heard of a player talking bad about Obradovic, all his former players worship him, it sounds strange but outside of the court he is a friend, a father figure to them all, they even go out for drinks together. Saras loves him for example (he's even taken his mannerisms as a coach) and he almost threw him out of the team in his first year in Panathinaikos. But they know once they step onto the court, it's his way or the motorway...

Ncaa coaching style is quite similar to europe.

great stuff bro 😎

I played football (soccer) and i always performed better when the coach is strict and loud, it's a European thing 😂😂😂

They should make a video about Duško Vujošević and his "method's" of coaching

One question I have in mind: are NBA players roles (starting/bench for example) put down on their contract sometimes? Just wondering.

Spoelstra faced Jimmy Buttler last year: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i3z4vKW3dOI.html Were there consequences? No. NBA Finalists NBA teams allow "too much power" to superstars vs coach. The career of a coach in the current NBA is usually short. Is it a coincidence that Popovich, Spoelstra and Kerr have a long history of coaching "with a European style"?

2:55 As if the NBA actively grows talents. Most players just wipe the bench and never play even in regular season. It is very rare to have growth tales like Giannis or Middleton and only in smaller teams that "do not matter".

Just make it play by the rules of basketball, games will be immediately more tactical and Coaches more important.

Having Bartzokas in the bench is a FREAKING blessing for us Olympiakos fans . The guy's literally one of the boys in his team , even if his reactions are sometimes WAY EXCESSIVE ( although for us fans , they're completely normal if anything ) .

Euroball is way more competitive.

WOW very nice video! Keep the good work guys! Augis, you are really handsome man!

Just dealing with huge egos can turn things around badly.

in europe every play is combinating set. in nba is freestyle or 1 star style of playing. nba match is like more than a open training. europe basketball is more racionality, and the last. nba is like football 11x11, europe basket is like futsal :D

Great video, but I am surprised that you didn’t mention that European basketball leagues have relegation while the NBA does not. A European coach for a middle to low ranked team can’t afford to lose even meaningless games because if their team is relegated to the 2nd tier, their clubs essentially lose everything (sponsorships, players, subsidies for youth development programs, etc.). Relegation is effectively a death sentence, and a coach will make any adjustments necessary to avoid that happening, regardless of the feelings of underperforming stars.

2:35: That’s not head coach Darvin Ham, that’s assistant coach Phil Handy.

NBA isn't even basketball anymore. It has it's own rules and a lot of it is rigged. It's just a big tv show. If NBA went to fiba rules we'd actually see some good games

Gregg Popovic is essentialy European coach. His origins are Serbian, so... It makes sense. Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, Diaw was collective, creative, beautiful European team

How can you work out set plays and strategies when you play every 2 or 3 days? How can you hone your individual skills? It's ridiculous. Cut the amount of NBA games by 1/3 (or more) and you'd have better teams and players.

In football players make a lot more money than coaches do. So it's a matter of mentality based more in the concept of the maestro and the orchestra. They could do that in the NBA as well but they won't because it's cultural

nba - tv series,cartoons,\ europa - THEATRE in europe head coach is really a person who build the team around him in nba is more like mentor and some kind of producer)) thanks for interesting theme. i respect obradovic but never understand why he so emotional. in 82 games if he will do this style he would have problems with health. nba is for the show,money, players and popcorn, for growing heroes. europe is really tournament where every game matters, nowadays teams like baskonia valencia milan and other battle in every game

I feel like an agressive style keeps egos at check, versus nba where like mentioned in the video a player has more power then a coach.

I remember my coach in Germany every time he was shouting like crazy he was spitting so much suliva😂

Since I am getting more in love with Xs and Os then individual performances, you are going to make me watch Euroleage after two decades. Stopped watching Euroleage for quite a while and following NBA only. This coming from a Serb.

Compared to the US, European pro-sport in general are much more about winning rather than the entertainment. In Europe, generally the winner takes the biggest cakes, the more serial winners you are, the bigger cake of supporter, advertising, and branding etc you’ll get. In the US you see teams like New York Knicks or Dallas Cowboys who hardly won anything, still able to make good money just because they are based in area with a big market. That makes the incentive of winning much higher in European sports league, EuroLeague included. In that situation, it’s understandable that the pressure on coaches would be much higher, hence the highly expressive style of coaching

What coaches like Jure Zdovc do to their team is they completly destroy the joy off the game. Creativity on offense goes trought the window. No sense off free play

Players are payed more than coaches in Europe too

When the competition is closer there's always the danger of getting relegated in your domestic league. That's another layer of pressure that can cause a coach to lose his sh!t.

NBA= show , EuroLeague= Game (tough one)

The issue in the nba is that players have their egos through the roof and will feel attacked if yelled at They also have a sense of security because their contracts mostly force the coaches to play them whether they are following orders or not

wtf is this man , is one of the most genuine and so funny at the same time stereotype of European coaches.

It's quite straightforward. European basket is a team sport, much more tactical. Hence the role of the coach is much more important, and less it's the players's one. Therefore, the effort of the coaches to make players understand what they should do within the team strategies. They are the leaders, and this is understood by the players.

All your life you wait for me :D That is so halarious that whenever I hear it it's like hearing it for the first time :D

In a professional game where players get paid to play, winning is everything. Nba is all about money highlights and success. Like any league in the world. One thing is to stream line the game not play off the dribble off the cuff meaning no plan and hope space opens up. Also it's not an individual sport. So if coach calls a play do it and if it don't work media and fans can blame whatever but inside the changing rooms and behind doors it was what you were told to do.

All US sports leagues have one common problem and that is locked leagues. with locked positions, it will be incredibly boring matches further down the table

The coaches in Europe are actual coaches because the game there is still about tactics, and not "hero" ball. Unfortunately, money speaks louder everywhere and just like the NBA makes changes to the rules every year or so to make scoring easier and create more highlights to attract casual viewers, Europe is following in their footsteps slowly but surely

10:35 did you see that travel? That's 7 steps less than a normal LeBron dunk

John Mullaney really host a good basketball show

Good analysis.

I cant wait to see how one of European coaches find a way to combine strategy and right psychology in the NBA. Blatt was great coach but totaly messed up with elationship side

In one more generation of players (two at the most) Europe will be the favorites in a hypothetical basketball Ryder Cup.

There is no way Zeliko Obradovic could not be the best coach in the NBA. He would need a lifetime contract with a team and let him do his magic. There is just NO WAY an NBA coach being better than any Euroleague coach. Even the legend Pitino who came in Europe can agree with that.