"Who runs the best practices?"- Henry Abbott "DOn Nelson!"- Al Harrington "Why's that?"-...

"Who runs the best practices?"- Henry Abbott
"DOn Nelson!"- Al Harrington

"Why's that?"- Abbott

"Just cause, it was always scrimmages, throw the ball, and run up and down"- TNMT

"Would he yell?"- Abbott
"Yeah sometimes. Depends how he was feeling that day. If he had his favorite dog in the world, Lucky with him etc"- TMNT

Got to love Nellie!

Al Harrington on NBA Today

Also, Darryl Morey on the podcast.

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I thought Keith Smart ran Nellie's practices.

by Pippen on Feb 3, 2012 12:43 PM PST reply actions

Harrington was gone by that time.

by Missing Barry on Feb 3, 2012 12:49 PM PST up reply actions

Ahh...my mistake

It doesn’t really sound like Nellie was very active in running it either though.

by Pippen on Feb 3, 2012 12:54 PM PST up reply actions

My favorite class in elementary school was recess.

I didn’t really learn much though.

by Pippen on Feb 3, 2012 12:49 PM PST reply actions 1 recs

My favorite part of basketball practice was scrimmages too, but we were never taught much during scrimmages.

by G-State on Feb 3, 2012 1:32 PM PST up reply actions

hahaha, rec'd

pretty much sums it up for me too

"I am very worried about the Warriors"
-brutusbrutus

by Duby Dub Dubs on Feb 3, 2012 2:20 PM PST up reply actions

Yeah.

“Just throw the ball and run” doesn’t sound like the sort of practice that would result in things like a coherent offense, disciplined play, etc.

by Ronaldinho on Feb 3, 2012 1:03 PM PST reply actions

shocking how it correlates to games :)

by tafkasam on Feb 3, 2012 1:06 PM PST up reply actions

except we had an amazing offense back then....soo...

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by LostHawkGSW on Feb 3, 2012 1:14 PM PST up reply actions

Are you saying our team didn't have a coherent offense with Harrington around?

Gambino is a mastermind...

by GovernorStephCurry on Feb 3, 2012 2:12 PM PST up reply actions

Well, kinda.

But we had Baron, which is to say we had a player who really understood how to distribute the ball well, and could create a lot of offense on his own.

(Responding to both you and Losthawk)

And when we got stuck in the half-court game, our offense got mediocre fast. Our offense back then was built on chaos, create a 3-on-3 or even a 3-on-4 where the defense isn’t set. When we were forced to play a slow-down, half-court game against set defense, we struggled mightily.

by Ronaldinho on Feb 3, 2012 5:10 PM PST up reply actions

Basically

This is why Nellie is bad for a team who needs to develop and generally doesn’t like rookies/young guys.

We believe was mostly experienced vets who knew their role.

by tafkasam on Feb 3, 2012 7:49 PM PST up reply actions

i disagree

sometimes consistent scrimmage is the perfect key to building chemistry and adapting to roster changes. its the best way to for players to understand their teammates games in a non-pressure enviroment

It's lonely being the only Warriors fan at UMass :(

by j-spliff415 on Feb 4, 2012 8:58 AM PST up reply actions

I agree.

Like Coach Jackson said, there’s a lot of “fake hustle” in practices that don’t do much good.

Gambino is a mastermind...

by GovernorStephCurry on Feb 4, 2012 1:19 PM PST up reply actions

Depends how he was feeling that day

If he had his favorite dog with him etc…(how many glasses of scotch he had for breakfast …if he was hanging out with Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson…if he was awake…if Cohan was watching)

by Pippen on Feb 3, 2012 1:53 PM PST reply actions