Thanks for sharing. I can recommend this to every Kings fan if you want to see where things are going with the Kings. Build a winning culture based on hardwork. No tanking. Young guys learning from competing against vets. No own agendas, but team players that sacrifice for the team.
Its almost as this were his job interview for Vlade/Joerger. They are preaching the exact same thing.
True. But to be fair, almost every executive, player or owner is basically preaching the same thing. In draft day interviews "It's all about winning and leadership man....", when traded "I just want to win and lead by example....", "I do whatever necessary", "I'm a team first guy", "Hard work trumps talent, when...." and so on and on. Fact is the Spurs and the Grizzlies are the two franchises and player bases, where I have the feeling, that they don't preach but live those things. And that's what important. Words are cheap.
It's gotten to a point, where I personally think it's amusing to listen to interviews with people involved in the NBA, because it's so predictable. Wether it's the 18 year old rookie or the 50 year old executive they all use the same phrases and point to the same things. I said it before - when all the guys claiming to be the first in the gym, would truly try to live that, the gym would need to be open all night.
Not saying those things aren't important though or that it's bad to try to step into the footsteps of the Spurs or Grizzlies. But it's a lot more difficult to actually live that, than it is to talk about it and from the outside looking in the list of NBA champions includes a whole lot of primadonnas.
I think the actual nuances of building a winning team, would be a lot more interesting than this. Sadly Scott pretty much dodged the question about the Magic, pointing to missing luck when drafting players and how he would have done a few things differently than Hennigan.