Do Pep and Golden State coach Steve Kerr know each other - because they should

[frimpongs_buzzin]

This will be a lonely thread, but watching some NBA and the movement and principles and style of man management are pretty strikingly similar. I think they’d get on.

an old article, but this is a great read - https://acrosstheculture.com/sports/manchester-city-golden-state-best-teams-ever/

a shared ethos on getting the soul of the squad right:

"Despite Durant’s individual superiority and Draymond’s revolutionary positional play, Curry is the Warriors’ soul. Their Brahman. This is also why Man City are just as potent with or without PFA Player of the Year runner-up Kevin De Bruyne on the field. Pep’s tactics are Man City, and they are instilled in every player. As long as the cores of these teams stay intact (Curry + Draymond, Guardiola + several great wide and central players), anyone is replaceable."

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Nonsense comparison tbf. Kerr is an intelligent and affable chap but no idea how you can compare basketball coaching to what goes on in football. Tactically, it's night & day. Managing a squad of no more than 15 players, of which only 5 are ever playing at one time is incomparable to a football squad of twice that size

There are sufficient similarities in any team-ball sport. The ball's round in both games, for a kick off. Oops, that's a contrast - yer can't kick the ball in basketball. Both have a net to put the ball in, and if yer on certain footy teams yer can use yer hand, same as basketball. And I was always taught that basketball was NON-CONTACT, which has probably spawned the oft repeated squeak on MotD - THERE WAS CONTACT - to justify another Dipper pen!

 

[frimpongs_buzzin]

Nonsense comparison tbf. Kerr is an intelligent and affable chap but no idea how you can compare basketball coaching to what goes on in football. Tactically, it's night & day. Managing a squad of no more than 15 players, of which only 5 are ever playing at one time is incomparable to a football squad of twice that size

i challenge your nonsense comparison and present you with this passage of play from last night.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Nonsense comparison tbf. Kerr is an intelligent and affable chap but no idea how you can compare basketball coaching to what goes on in football. Tactically, it's night & day. Managing a squad of no more than 15 players, of which only 5 are ever playing at one time is incomparable to a football squad of twice that size

It sounds like you lack a bit of imagination. Some coaching lessons and techniques have been adapted from basketball to help football teams. IIRC this includes the use of overhead cameras in training to improve defensive organisation.

Even the basic weave attack has similarities with simulators with how Utd used to attack with Giggs & co.

 

[Dubai Blue]

Nonsense comparison tbf. Kerr is an intelligent and affable chap but no idea how you can compare basketball coaching to what goes on in football. Tactically, it's night & day. Managing a squad of no more than 15 players, of which only 5 are ever playing at one time is incomparable to a football squad of twice that size

If Pep can learn things from water polo and chess, I'm sure there must be elements of basketball coaching that he'd find useful for football (and vice versa).