Scottie Pippen: If I Were Coach

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If I Were Coach
Posted by Scottie Pippen on May 7, 2007, 3 p.m. ET

If I Were Coaching the Warriors…

The way the NBA is set up, if I am Don Nelson, I encourage my team to
continue to play with the same style that they played in the last series.
That is Don Nelson type of basketball and that is the type of basketball that
has made his teams, even in the past, successful. Just encourage them to go
out and keep scoring. Scoring seems to be the key right now in the playoffs.
It's not really about both teams making a lot of stops. The teams that are
putting the ball in the basket, the officials are allowing them to play.
Their style of play suits the playoffs just perfectly.

Nellie's ‘Nothing to Lose’ Philosophy

Anytime you are an eighth seed, you have to look at it from that standpoint.
You got very lucky to get in, no one is expecting you to do anything, so hey,
let's just go out and prove everybody wrong. Your whole mindset it just
basically that there is nothing to lose. You play a little bit looser
compared to a team like Dallas who was a top seed. The Mavs got a little bit
tight when things got tough. That is the natural instinct because they
weren't expected to be in that situation, whereas with Golden State, they're
just freelancing. That has always been Nelli's style of play. He allows his
team to just go out and play and not put any pressure on itself.

A Potential Golden State Letdown?

I don't see any letdown. You are talking about one of the greatest coaches
in the game. When you speak of the Pat Rileys, the Phil Jacksons, you have to
speak of Don Nelson and the success that he has had in the game. He has been
able to take teams without centers, and give guys who are just mediocre
players an opportunity to go out and succeed. He feels very strong about his
coaching philosophy because it's been very successful. Don Nelson sees this
as an opportunity as, hey, maybe my team can win a championship. We're damn
sure going to try. That's how he coaches and that's how his team goes out and
plays. I look back at the "Run TMC" days with Chris Mullin, Tim Hardaway and
Mitch Richmond. Those guys didn't have much more than what you're looking at
with this current Warriors team, which is a very strong ability to go out and
get 90 points from three of your top players. You have Baron Davis, Stephen
Jackson and Jason Richardson who can all step up and score 30 points. That is
a lot of points coming from your frontline. You don't really need a big man
when you've got guys who can put up points like that.

If I Were Coaching the Jazz…

They're a team that is going to execute. They are going to get layups.
They're not going to rely on the jumpshot. They're going to execute and make
Golden State have to play. And on the other end, they're a very good
basketball team from a defensive standpoint. They're not going to give in.
They don't have weak links on their defense and they're not going to have the
opportunity to take advantage, speaking of Golden State, of any individuals
on Utah. All those guys are pretty much stand alone defenders, but also
they're a very good team defensively.

Jerry Sloan 101

When you look at Jerry Sloan teams, they're all very disciplined. They
execute well. They play within themselves. But this is a team that is a
little bit different than the Utah teams that we've seen in the past. They
do have a little bit more of an uptempo style, but they run with a purpose.
They're not going to get out of the context of their game and start playing
the type of basketball that we saw with the Golden State-Dallas series where
they were just running up and down, jacking three-pointers. Utah is not going
to get caught up in that kind of game. Utah is going to be a far more hostile
environment for Golden State than what they faced in Dallas. That is a very
tough arena to win in and they are going to control the tempo. They're going
to execute, get fouls, slow the game down and they're going to make it very
difficult for Golden State to make those runs that they made in the Dallas
series. Jerry Sloan is not going to allow that. He is going to use his
timeouts effectively and they're going to make it very tough on Golden State
to come in there and get a win. I know Baron Davis is going to be a handful,
but expect this Utah team to really step up defensively and focus on Baron
Davis.

Prediction

I like Utah to advance. I think Golden State will give them their money's
worth, but I just think the mental toughness and the ability they have of
guys that will step in the lane and not allow Davis to dominate their paint
as Richardson and Davis and Jackson did in the Dallas series will be big. You
can't have small guards inside dominate the paint and I think Utah will own
the paint in this series.


               http://www.nba.com/playoffs2007/news/pippen_coach_070507.html 

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