Why Coaching In Europe Is So Different From NBA

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One thing that is often forgotten, but was mentioned in passing in the video, is that relegation exists in European leagues. This means that if you finish in the last 3/4 places you lose the right to participate in the top championship the following year with enormous financial losses. In the NBA you can lose 90% of the games and still stay in the NBA.

One thing that is often forgotten, but was mentioned in passing in the video, is that relegation exists in European leagues. This means that if you finish in the last 3/4 places you lose the right to participate in the top championship the following year with enormous financial losses. In the NBA you can lose 90% of the games and still stay in the NBA.

Europe is passion for the game.
NBA is money

I never liked Obradovic “geometry” during the game that led to low scores

NBA coaches need to take tactical seminars being taught by European coaches.

Dont forget the fact that NBA teams MOVE the teams from city to city. Can you even imagine this happening to Europe? NEVER

Cut the americans (foreigners) from the Euroleague. There are way too many of them... max 3 for every team. Therefore Euro basketball will get stronger.

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I think European coaches would be very successful in the NBA. It changes the stagnant atmosphere of the NBA. European coaches are more ambitious and determined. This is also reflected in the stands. Fans watch the match like they're watching a movie. NBA teams should definitely open their doors to European coaches.

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

When the coach is yelling at you, it means that he thinks you can be better. If he stops speaking, you are finished. In Europe basketball is still a sport.

NBA is not basketball any longer, it is entertainment. I’ll watch a Euroleague game anytime but NBA? Nope…

I was lucky to be part of the journey from the early 80s, so I know what it was and what it is not any more.

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

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

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.

The NBA is about advertising, entertainment, media talk, or, in other words, pure business, while European basketball is a lifestyle, passion, survival, and obsession. You can hear "YAY !" or silence when you watch NBA fans. Europen fans are causing an earthquake. Also, European basketball players can NOT afford to disappoint.

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

You should invite Allen iverson he tells exactly how they play the basketball in Europe because he has played for Besiktas in Turkey

dont forget that in europe if they are not going to be loud the croud will cover them

The whole video should be summarized in this quote: “NBA head coaches are not going to bench starters who earn 10 Millions Plus for a guy on a minimum deal just because he's better (in switch all defense in the regular season). It's simply not how NBA works”.
Exactly. That’s the main difference. Great European coaches will bench anyone, just to win the game. It doesn’t matter who you are. Two examples:
1. In order Steve Kerr to bench Klay Thompson (we are now at 2024), everyone had to wait for 3 years…! In Europe Klay would face the bench within some games of bad performance (obviously he would also be a starter depending only to his efficiency momentum)
2. Gregg Popovich benched Tim Dunkan at the final possession of game 6 of 2013 finals to play switching defence; but, Spurs didn’t grab the defensive rebound resulting to the impossible corner 3-point by Ray Allen
All-in-all: In Europe, you play with your best 5-players. It doesn’t matter who you are. And obviously this doesn’t mean that you always make the correct decision. But, in Europe you have more chances to have the best 5-players in the court, since you are not biased with the pay-check.

Shouting is a way of expression, but physical contact is too much. Anyhow European way is better, since there are no "superstars" who can do whatever they want without pointing out their mistakes. They think they are untouchable and always right. That diva mentally would not work in Europe, they would take the first flight back to the USA crying in their private jet.

NBA= show , EuroLeague= Game (tough one)

🤣 haha ...you only mention Zeljko. Blessed are NBA bitches that haven't experienced him or the other Greek legend: Ioannidis😅😊😂😢!!!

Same thing applies to the fans too. In nba u see people eating hot dogs and chanting defense. In serbia, Greece, turkey, israel they are at war. Love from Greece to all!

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When it comes to crazy coaches noone can outperform a Greek called Giannis Ioannidis😂😂

If Europe focuses a bit more they can overcome NBA in 10-15 years from now. Just look at some of the best NBA players right now, they are Europeans.

All European "crazy" coaches are Serbs or heavily influenced by them

In Europe the game is more passionate because there's clubs from 7+ different countries competing in the Euroleague, NBA is the championship of a country... but they are the same basically. Whoever wins it is the champion of the continent.

NBA is a business, Euroleague is about basketball

One major thing you have to understand, which is the biggest reason of the differences between European Basketball and NBA, is that in Europe the clubs are way BIGGER than ANY of the individual players. Fans are not interested which player did the most dunks, or which player has the biggest ego and did the most trash talking, or who was disappointed because he wanted 2 players to mark them and other nonsense. They want their team to win and whatever happens they ALWAYS back their team up. The team is ABOVE ALL.

Coach is the teams authority...or he should be.. like a father figure

Nba is BABY League if the nba coach treat the players like european basketball the nba player will cry like a baby and left the court, then asking for a trade.

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 ) .

NBA players are soft

In europe you coaching players, in Usa you coaching rich negros... imagine when poor becomes milionaire, its nasty...

There is no coaching in NBA

Why euro coaches scream?
Because of the noisy crowd.
Why US coaches don't scream?
So players don't think that they are in imprisonment.

The NBA represents this era of family where the spoilt brats own the parents and the EuroLeague represents the old school way where the kids get smacked in the face when they misbehave.

USA influences the whole world, its just a matter of time when the Euroleague will became a joke like the NBA is right now. We wjll see human rights activists (read Mercenaries) will appeal that this offends some group of people and should be banned. Every shit trend that starts in America is spread later to the whole world like its a norm.

the fact that European sports have Fans and American Sports have Customers says it all :)

The nba needs coaches line Tom Izzo or Bob Knight. It would be a better game.

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

nba become a show for a long time ago, euroleague is art of basketball

Over the top coaching is bad, period. Screaming at your players is part of the game, to wake them up, to make them see what the hell they are doing. But always screaming, trying to hit players, choking them is not okay. Lots of great players can be ruined by that, and there is a big chance you will lose the locker room. When nothing is going your way, not is a way of not being focused, but in the sense that nothing is falling for you, and you are already frustrated, and then your own coach starts screaming at you... that's the worst feeling ever. The best coaches I had were the ones where, if I wasn't focused, if I was making stupid mistakes because I was not focused, they would scream at me. But when I was focused and the shot just wasn't falling, they would encourage me, say they trust me, that it was just a game of basketball and I would turn things around. And guess what, I would actually turn things around!


And about it not working sometimes in the NBA, understandable. Just like a coach that adopts the modern phylosophy may be accidentally too soft, a coach who adopts the old style of coaching can be too harsh, like Carlisemo. That thing of being the hardest on your best player never works out, they feel like you are picking on them, because others do the same mistakes and you are not as hard on them. You have to correct everyone the same way, without taking away their confidence. When you make a mistake and you get shouted at it makes you think you are shit. Rather, the best coaches I had, like I already mentioned, would scream if we weren't focused, but if we were and we, idk, missed a pass, they would simply tell us what to do and encourage us.

In Europe coach is paet od players private life too,more than you think. He cares,it is not only screaming etc. But people only see that part.

Because they are crazy and take it all too seriously, too much politics also inside who finance all that, while any sport is just a show. Btw you will not see it in Germany or Italy. That is why NBA is top league. I don't watch my domestic, Serbian league at all, for last twenty years for sure.

NBA players are soft. LeBron would cry if he gets yelled at by the coach.

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.