VIDEO: Dave Johnson with Wizards Assistant Mike O’…
VIDEO: Dave Johnson with Wizards Assistant Mike O’Koren
Wizards radio play-by-play announcer Dave Johnson spent a few minutes assistant coach Mike O’Koren to discuss the upcoming season. O’Koren is entering his fourth season as the team’s lead assistant in Washington.
Posted: September 22nd, 2006 under Wizards.
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Comment from Anonymous
Time September 26, 2006 at 7:40 PM
Coach seemed pretty cool. It’s nice to see how passionate he was about the squad. What I wonder about though…How hands on do these coaches get in practices. I think about when Pat Ewing was an assistant for the rockets. Did he actually work with Yao in game situations? I ask because alot of times when you see assistants they tend to be old guys,who couldn’t possibly be hands on coaching.Maybe running drills,but how about coaches who actually demonstrate,and teach. I’m sure this goes on,but I just wonder how much coaching goes on when teams tend to have a starting 5 of asistants.
Comment from wizardsdotcom
Time September 26, 2006 at 9:24 PM
As someone who’s coached at several levels (ok - grade school & HS youth teams), and as someone who has observed coaching at the highest level (NBA), coaching requires little physical demonstration, especially one-on-one. Teaching and instruction is so much more important.
For many teams, each coach has his own “specialty”. There’s often a lead assistant who helps the head coach out with everything (in our case Mike O’Koren). Some coaches have coaches just for the “smalls”, others for just the “bigs”, others for just defense, and some are in charge of developing the younger players.
A few years back, Dallas had like 10 assistants at one point. I think LA brought 8 “coaches” to camp last year.
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Comment from AUNDRA2044
Time September 26, 2006 at 8:24 AM
I LOVE ALL THE HAND MOVEMENT COACH.
YOU SEEM REALLY PASSIONATE FOR THE GAME AND I AM DEFINITELY GLAD TO HAVE YOU ON OUR COACHING STAFF!