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Best and Worst Coaches of Philippine Basketball

Not from R.P., but this is one extreme coaching strategy:

Bizarre basketball game

By MIKE CRANSTON, AP Sports Writer
Nov 25, 11:29 pm EST

DAVIDSON, N.C. (AP)—By the third possession, Davidson’s Stephen Curry had figured it out. Loyola (Md.) was double-teaming him. Everywhere, on each possession, no matter what the scenario.

So Curry decided to test the triangle-and-2 defense taken to the ultimate extreme. He went into the corner and two defenders followed him, setting up a 4-on-3 for his teammates.

Curry decided to keep standing there, and his teammates kept scoring—for 40 minutes—in a 78-48 head-scratching win for the 24th-ranked Wildcats that will be remembered for some time.

The nation’s leading scorer was held without a point and took only three shots. But the game was never in doubt because Davidson played the entire game on a virtual power play.

All this was courtesy of a bizarre coaching move by Loyola’s Jimmy Patsos.

“We had to play against an NBA player tonight,” Patsos explained. “Anybody else ever hold him scoreless? I’m a history major. They’re going to remember that we held him scoreless or we lost by 30?”


Some will remember the catcalls Patsos received from the fans when he stuck with the defense well after the game was decided. Davidson coach Bob McKillop was so annoyed he kept Curry in the game until the final minute.

“It seemed to me they were willing to risk the game at the expense of locking Steph up,” McKillop said. “When you put two people on somebody and you do it for 30 minutes and at the end of the game, you have to wonder what the reasons for that are.”

Curry, the darling of last season’s NCAA tournament, had scored a career-high 44 points in a loss at Oklahoma this month. He followed that up with games of 30 and 39 points.

“If Oklahoma can’t stop him, how is Loyola College going to stop him?” Patsos asked.

Trouble is, Davidson (5-1) has other options, and they often scored at will even if Curry didn’t reach double figures for only the second time of his career.

Andrew Lovedale provided the muscle inside with 20 points and 10 rebounds, Bryant Barr hit six wide-open 3-pointers and scored 18 points. Will Archambault hit three more 3s and scored 13.

And Curry, coming in averaging 35 points a game, joked that he had the best seat in the house.

“Every dead ball I asked them how long they were going to do this,” Curry said he asked his shadowing defenders. “They really didn’t say anything. They weren’t very conversational about it.”

Marquis Sullivan scored 16 points and went over 1,000 for his career for the Greyhounds (2-4), who hold the distinction of being the first team to hold Curry scoreless. The trouble is they shot 34 percent and trailed by as many as 34 points.

Plus, Brett Harvey, Loyola’s top scorer coming into the game, didn’t score as he spent most the game standing next to Curry in the corner.

“I know the fans are mad at me, but I had to roll the dice as far as a coach goes. I’m not some rookie coach,” said Patsos, a former longtime assistant at Maryland. “I won a national title as a top assistant coach to Gary Williams. For 13 years I spent on Tobacco Road. I coached a couple of No. 1 picks in the draft. And we scored 48 points. That’s the problem that Loyola basketball had today.”

But Curry’s teammates also overwhelmed the undersized Greyhounds.

Lovedale missed just once in his first seven shots. Archambault then had a layup on Curry’s only assist of the first half before drilling a 3-pointer to complete an 18-0 run for a 22-9 lead.

It was the second time in the four-round NIT that Loyola surrendered 18 straight points. The Greyhounds went five minutes without scoring against Boston College and nearly seven this time.

They fell farther behind even with Curry on the bench with two fouls. He was shuttled in and out of the game over the final 10 minutes, yet Barr made four 3s to close the half for a 39-17 lead.

Barr’s fifth straight 3—with no one around him—in the first minute of the second half continued the onslaught.

Curry didn’t attempt his second shot of the game—a long straightaway 3-pointer that clanged off the rim—until 14:57 remained. He then missed a foul-line jumper in the closing minutes.

“I don’t think irritate is the word. Just confused,” Curry said. “When they’re down by that much and still allowing us to get open shots. It kind of surprised me.”

It turned out pretty good for his teammates.

“Their coach obviously wanted guys other than Steph to beat him,” Barr said. “If you’re playing 4-on-3 against us, somebody is going to hurt you.”
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regierr said:
Worst

Ryan Gregorio is one of the worst coaches. He doesn't emphasize ball movement and passing, just pure one on one plays for his two over exploited stars (Raymundo and Yap).
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i wouldn't call gregorio one of the worst coaches ever, but i'm no fan of his. not too imaginative, lets kerby and james do 50% of the damage (or close to it), and only rotates 8 or 9, or sometimes 7 players. with all due respect to greggy, the main reason purefoods won a few import-laced conferences some years back was because they had a great import in derrick brown.
 
The BEST HIGH SCHOOL COACH in the Philippines is no doubt coach ATO BADOLATO. The long-time coach of the San Beda Red Cubs will call it quits after NCAA Season 85:
 
best coach? hmmm... quite difficult to name but for the worst coach... i think it's the interim coach of Talk N' Text (or is it Mobiline) before (i think it's Virgil Villavicencio). that guy made a mockery of basketball. he instructed his players to shoot from the opponent's goal to force the game into overtime even though they are comfortably ahead in the final minutes. i think he did this as they are going after the quotient so that their team will qualify into the next round.
 
donno said:
best coach? hmmm... quite difficult to name but for the worst coach... i think it's the interim coach of Talk N' Text (or is it Mobiline) before (i think it's Virgil Villavicencio). that guy made a mockery of basketball. he instructed his players to shoot from the opponent's goal to force the game into overtime even though they are comfortably ahead in the final minutes. i think he did this as they are going after the quotient so that their team will qualify into the next round.
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i agree with virgil villavicencio being a bad coach. never liked him when he was la salle's coach in the mid-'90s...but i think the interim coach of talk 'n' text you're referring to is ariel vanguardia. not one of my favorite coaches either...
 
MrEndshiftresign said:
i agree with virgil villavicencio being a bad coach. never liked him when he was la salle's coach in the mid-'90s...but i think the interim coach of talk 'n' text you're referring to is ariel vanguardia. not one of my favorite coaches either...
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There was a tv segment about him before. He said that he was coaching several teams at once(I think 3). This is probably why he had a poor performance as a coach.
 
in the PBA:
so far Jong Uichico is technically by the book good...but on the contrary, Yeng Guiao's unorthodox style of coaching is way better, I consider him the best in the PBA, he brings the best out of any player..he's passionate and has the biggest balls among the coaches in the PBA right now. his PBL counterpart was Junel Baculi, who always says the PI word to anyone who is "nagkakalat" on the floor.hehehe. Chot Reyes is good in terms of scouting especially internationally...the best for me.

worst??? hmm...who was that PBA coach who uses chalk in demonstrating plays? hehehe...his style is very barbaric..I hate that coach back in the 90's. lolz.
 
Best Coach: Eric Spoelstra
-how many pinoy coaches can claim they've coached an NBA team

Runner up: Ron Jacobs
-Too bad we didnt see him in the asian games

Worst Coach: Johnny Tam
-Nuff Said

Runner Up: Chito Narvasa
-Calling his players a disgrace to the shell organization? Screwing up the UAAP, Being the long time narrow minded head fool of the equally stupid bcap.
 
Best Coaches:
- Baby Dalupan
- Erik Spoelstra
- Ron Jacobs
- Hirminio Silva
- Dionisio Calvo

Worst Coaches:
- too many to mention..
 
donmar said:
Best Coaches:
- Baby Dalupan
- Erik Spoelstra
- Ron Jacobs
- Hirminio Silva
- Dionisio Calvo

Worst Coaches:
- too many to mention..
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But nevertheless I agree Dalupan, Spoelstra and Jacobs would be the best of them all in random order
 
rycorpz said:
But nevertheless I agree Dalupan, Spoelstra and Jacobs would be the best of them all in random order
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I agree to that I mention Silva, because of the 3rd place finish in the World Champs.. Calvo, because of the 5th place in the Olympics
 
donmar said:
I agree to that I mention Silva, because of the 3rd place finish in the World Champs.. Calvo, because of the 5th place in the Olympics
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oh interesting info Donnie those are the one's who put us on the basketball map does Big Difference Loyzaga were in those line-up? I mean 1936 team and 1954 who were his teammates?
 
rycorpz said:
oh interesting info Donnie those are the one's who put us on the basketball map does Big Difference Loyzaga were in those line-up? I mean 1936 team and 1954 who were his teammates?
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He was in the 1954... he is too young to be in 1936... I think the answer for your question is in wikipedia:D... the full line-up of those teams are there... by the way, I should add Loyzaga to one of the great coaches.. after his distinguished career.. he coached RP to an Asian championship title and to the Olympic Games... he is pretty much the first Asian to win an Asian Championship title as a player and as a coach...
 
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