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Corbin at Home in Utah Once Again
By Travis Heath
for HOOPSWORLD.com
Jan 12, 2007, 16:21
Tyrone Corbin played 16 seasons in the NBA and gained a reputation as one of
the tougher competitors in the game. Corbin also completed two tours of duty
in Utah playing under head coach Jerry Sloan. Now, Corbin has returned to
Utah to work as an assistant coach under the man he once played for.
"I think (Sloan's) a little older, so he's not as fiery as he was when I
played. So actually he's lightened up a little bit," Corbin said with a big
laugh during an exclusive interview.
"It's a good thing for him," Corbin continued. "He's a great guy, a great
coach, and he understands how to get the most out of his teams."
Perhaps the more appropriate phrase is Sloan still knows how to get the most
out of his teams even after all these years, and this development is far from
surprising to Corbin who believes all of the doubters who think Sloan should
have gotten out of the game years ago don't know that of which they speak.
"First of all, those critics are far from knowing the truth. The guy
understands how to make adjustments to his game-plan to make everybody on his
team effective. Basketball is still the same. I really appreciate the fact
that I've had the opportunity to work with him and to understand what it
takes to be successful at this level, and what it takes to be successful at
this level for a long time. He's done a great job of learning the personality
of this team, having the guys understand his personality, and creating a
personality as an organization out there in the public. He'll make whatever
adjustment he has to make, but he's still who he is and he'll go out and make
guys play that way."
Corbin admitted not all players would respond well to Sloan's stern and
straight-forward style of coaching. However, the players the Jazz have
assembled have no trouble accepting Sloan's message.
"They have to recognize the fact that they're not there yet," Corbin said of
Utah's young players. "They've got a lot to learn as individual players.
They have a lot to learn about building a team and being part of a team
that's going to be successful at this level. It's a long NBA season and
there's a lot more talented guys than you played against in college or in
high school in C.J.'s (Miles) case. These guys want to get better. They
know that (Sloan) has been there. He's coached great teams, he's coached
great players and he's helped their teams get better. They are willing to
learn that."
Deron Williams, perhaps Utah's most talented young player, is chief among
those in the "willing to learn" camp.
"I think the first thing with him is he is one of the guys who really did a
good job from last year coming back in great shape and understanding the
condition he has to be in to be effective on a night in and night out basis
in this league," Corbin explained. " His body has gotten better. He's gotten
a little more fit with his body fat content and stronger and faster so when
he handles the ball he can go in the paint a little bit and take the pounding
there. He can take the pounding of guys pressuring him all the way up the
court and being able to finish once you get in the half-court. He's just
learning the game, learning how he can be effective by getting other people
the ball which will open things up for him also."
Additionally, Corbin indicated he was not surprised with how much Williams
has grown from year one to year two.
"Well, you look at his college career and his team at Illinois and how they
played and it's not surprising. The beginning of last year he had success,
then he struggled a little bit, and then he came back after the All Star
break last year and learned, got himself in better shape, and pushed the ball
up the floor a little harder. It's not surprising that the guy knows what it
takes to be good in this league, it's just going out and executing and doing
it every night."
With as well as things have been going so far for the Jazz, has the long-term
plan for success been accelerated at all?
"Well, we may be a little bit ahead of what everybody else thought, but we
can't get ahead of ourselves," Corbin cautioned. "It's still a work in
progress, we're still a very young ball club, and we still have young people
on this team who are learning how to play as we go along. It's going to be
tough. We can't put too many expectations on ourselves and think we are
entitled to anything."
Fair enough, but can this Jazz team compete for a title this year, coach?
"That's certainly the thing we talked about when we started the process
three-years ago, and we've talked about it from day one in training camp this
year. With the talent we have on this team we are capable of playing with
anybody, but we have to play a certain way. Do we get that consistently?
We've had some success so far this year, but we have a lot more work to do.
We must continue to grow, and the second half of the season after the All
Star break will be a good indicator of how good we can be because the game
changes then. We feel good about the talent on this team and if we continue
to play together we have a great chance of competing against anybody."
And someday, Corbin would like to like to guide his own NBA team to the same
type of success this Jazz team is currently experiencing.
When asked if his goal was to someday be an NBA head coach, Corbin responded:
"It is. I'm really enjoying my time here under coach Sloan, Phil Johnson and
now with Scotty Layden as an assistant coach. I'm having a chance to learn
from these guys who have been around forever, and to learn from coach Sloan
is such a blessing. I'm really enjoying what I'm doing now, but once the
opportunity presents itself I'm really looking forward to being a head coach
in this league."
One would have to believe his chances are pretty good, too. When you scour
the NBA landscape for former players who are now successful head coaches,
one thing becomes apparent: Role players usually make the best NBA coaches.
Names like Pat Riley, Phil Jackson, Byron Scott, Nate McMillan, George Karl,
and even Sloan immediately come to mind. These guys, like Corbin, were role
players who often relied more on effort than skill in their playing days.
As coaches, though, they are as skilled as anyone in the business.
And don't be surprised if you see Corbin bringing his coaching skills to an
NBA court near you in the not too distant future.
http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_20359.shtml
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