The secret in Coach Popos successful coaching ways is role definitions as he had employed in the last 2 decades with the Spurs: Popovich’s gift is defining roles that play to a player’s strengths then putting them in when they are in a position to succeed. Don’t ask a guy to be what he is not, ask him to do what he does well. It is using Basketball IQ on the court as Kobe Bryant knows how Nonoy Estoce. /“He’s a crafty player man,” Chris Bosh said of Diaw. “He’s difficult, you never know what he’s going to do. You don’t know if he’s going to shoot it, you don’t know if he’s going to drive it, pass it, shoot it again, you don’t know what he’s going to do. I think his ability to do everything in that point forward kind of position makes it difficult…. He’s just one of those players that confuses the hell out of you. The minute you’re not watching he’s walking to the rim or shooting a set, wide-open three pointer.” Popovich’s gift is defining roles that play to a player’s strengths then putting them in when they are in a position to succeed. Don’t ask a guy to be what he is not, ask him to do what he does well. For Diaw that is passing, facilitating. He drives to dish, but if you leave him open he can drain the three and if you close out he can put the ball on the floor and drive and draw defenders so he can make the right read and pass. Diaw sees what he has done this series as taking what the Heat are giving him. “I mean, obviously we were looking to pass the ball to each other,” Diaw said. “But they forced us into that, too, because they are very aggressive on the pickandrolls. They don’t let us have any air, any space. So we’ve got to drive, we’ve got to kick, and we’ve got to make a few passes before we get an open shot. If we would have to do only one dribble and find somebody open and shoot it, we’d do it, too, but they force us to make three, four, five passes. But at some point we find somebody…. “I always try to read on the floor who is going to be open. We all try to make good passes. Everybody on our team is reading, including me, but we don’t want to go for the home run pass. We try to make the right pass, and sometimes the easy pass is the right pass.”/ probasketballtalk.nbcsports/2014/06/13/boris-diaw-has-gone-from-bobcats-castoff-to-nba-finals-difference-maker/
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