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Kayte Christensen 1-on-1 with Paul Westphal and Kevin Martin
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kingsnation
All-Star
"It feels good to feel like you have a coach that has your back again.." --Kevin Martin
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Did I miss something? Were the other coaches picking on poor little Kevie poo? Maybe asking him to break a nail on defense?
On the other hand the first one, Kayte's interview with Westphal, was just very solid. Solid knowledgable interviewer, solid knowledgable answers. Nothing revolutionary, but nice to see something professional and competent once again.
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Entity
Hall of Famer
I think the key word there was AGAIN. Obviously refering to Rick Adelman. he said similar in the other interview of how Westphal is like Rick. I take that as comforting.
Emma
Starter
I wish Kayte would do a 1 on 1 with me.
Hey, Hey, Hey!!
I call dibs.
Seriously, she is really good at what she's doing.
You might want to do a quick google search on Kayte Christensen. She has more than just a bit of knowledge of the game.
Or maybe he's actually speaking with some experience about the differences of dealing with head coaches who actually know their way around in the performance of NBA coaching duties and those who don't?
Eric Musselman was totally out of touch with his players. Theus, IMHO, was too aware of his records as a player ... records Martin was breaking right and left. Kenny Natt was the substitute teacher I don't think anyone really bothered too much about because they knew he wasn't going to be around very long.
Kevin Martin isn't perfect but he also isn't the whining cry-baby you always seem to want to portray him as being.
Widowmaker2k
Bench
"Coaching doesn't matter too much."
-Kevin Martin
(Okay, obviously out of context, but I found it kind of funny.)
Kingster
Hall of Famer
My sentiments exactly. If I had to guess, Martin was unhappy because his coaches didn't defend his "injured" status as much as he would have liked.
Kingster
Hall of Famer
As far as Musselman is concerned, I really think the best game I've seen Martin play over the past three years was when the Kings played LA and Musselman had Martin running around screens, just killing Kobe on defense. Just wore him out. It was the best game against the best competition I've ever seen of Martin. Musselman wasn't all bad.
NewArena
All-Star
Yeah...He was worse.
bajaden
Hall of Famer
Yes he was!
I think part of it was that Adelman rarely talked poorly of his guys in the media. To push that button, you pretty much had to talk poorly of Rick in the media first and then he might fire back. I think players don't mind being called out face to face. When you are in a small tight knit group, the "got your back" thing means a lot. If you have to use public opinion on players to help do your job as a coach, you probably are not going to get respect from any of the players.
Kingster
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kennadog
Dog On It!
I don't think I ever heard Adelman say anything critical of his players to the media. He was more likely to blame himself. The players never came out and criticized each other to the media either, at that time, that I remember. We only heard of "rumored" issues, nothing directly from the horse's mouth. I like it that way. I think that sort of stuff should be talked about face-to-face, behind closed doors. I remember at least once when someone asked him if ADleman ever got after them, he implied that they definitely heard about mistakes and poor play (like he could really lay into them) at practices and meetings.
