Isiah is dropping gems! 👏🏾

When Isiah speaks, people listen. That's because he slayed the big 3... MJ, Bird, and Magic. All in one year.

Isiah broke it down perfectly 💯.

"Great players want to be coached" jalen 💯

Isaiah “ coach ... and mother”!! The role of the parent is the foundation.

Dude was feeling that speech by Zeek so much he gave an awkward clap lol 2:29

I really like what Isiah says about this: As a coach you've got to see those extra somethings inside your players, and to bring all of these out means you have to use different emotions - sometimes anger, sometimes love, sometimes both!

Big man was right today’s kids are treated like stars in elementary/ middle school because they are heavily courted by AAU coaches and college recruiters. Like everything else in this life if you add money than it’s bound to be corrupted.

Right on Isiah Thomas 🏀🥇🏅🎖️🏆

Coach: You see that guy over there? Player: Yes Coach Coach: He took your last Kit Kat Bar Player: Aaaahhhhhhhh!

Tough love is needed in sports.

Ask Pop an Timmy how to coach and be coached

Times have changed. It used to be people got together, got shit done and then worried about friendship... "if they went to the bar". Now it's the other way around, people want to like each other, they want the same politics, same religion, same talking points, they want to be coddled and feel good before they even think about doing the work. They want friendship, and that's why things turn mediocre. Only iron sharpens iron

I find it hilarious this topic has nothing to do with Lebron and people always complain about espn talking about Lebron, yet they can’t help but mention his name in the comment sectio😂

Isiah is not kidding. I remember his mother and brother at games , kinda poor and the center of attention. He was a good guy as well as a great player. I use to push a wheel chair bound student to games at court level and watched Isiah as a freshman as well as coach Knight. They were both amazing . Never forget Coach signaling to Ray Tolbert take a 3 point shot at mid court to crush the spirit of the visiting team when it was nothing but net.

Or Players and society are to sensitive to take tough coaching

Coach Wooden didn't do that. Coach K and Popovich don't do that. Therefore yelling at a player and running up on a player like a little kid isn't necessary to get the best out of a kid. Stop yelling and screaming just improve the content of what you're saying to your athlete.

Great topic

Great segment

Doc and Pop are the only coaches that get on their players

💯 Isiah Thomas speaks facts

The difference is when I was a kid you earnt respect from your coach and you earnt your big pay check, now kids expect to be paid before proving them selves and they think they are a coaches equal.

👏👏👏 Great job, Jalen & Zeke.

Isaiah was on point

Our society has become weak...from storming beaches to needing safe places from opinions...we are falling and will be collecting participation trophies all the way down.

Isaiah and jalen are my guys.Ive listened to the segment.John thompson,dean smith,john wooden,and even jalens coach at Michigan,were all successful,without all of the out of control behavior. One on one in timeouts ,or when u take him out of the game is most effective in molding and teaching a young athlete.Yelling furiously all the time ,and berating players isnt a philosophy those coaches i mentioned adhered to.

Too much insecurity and not being able to take constructive criticism. There is a reason only a few stay in the league for so long.

Jalen clean today! Nice suit bro...

Isaiah's mother was wonderful. She held a shot gun up against a street gang that came to get Isaiah into their gang.

I agree 100% with Isaiah Thomas..in the words of the great Anansi Spider, “Angry Gets Shit One”‼️🏀

Well said Isaiah

I completely agree. Which is why when I’m coaching my AAU team I challenge my players to be the best version of themselves at all times. The games become easy for my guys because our practices are so demanding. We’re competing in every drill. I’m not a yeller and a screamer like Izzo but I don’t accept anything less than they’re personal best. And I win because of it

Bobby Knight is the type of coach that players of this era desperately need.

I can listen to Zeke talk all day long. The guy is brilliant.

Always loved Isiah, hate how MJ railroaded him off the Olympic Team!! Jalen Rose's analogies are always on point, great job bruh!

Ppl use to defend Bobby Knight when he was abusing kids 🤦🏾‍♂️

Cold💯❗

I like Tom Izzo, I think he genuinely loves his players. But don't make excuses for him losing his temper for a few minutes. I've done it with my kids and later felt sorry about it.

Young players are not interested in this knowledge. Thank you guys for speaking on this issue

I dont like MSU OR Izzo... but I 110% support Izzo or ANY Coach who makes players or people TOUGHER. Others that confuse a high voice tone or "harsh words" as an expression of dislike have completely lost the thread. Keep doin it Coach Izzo please. We as a society need to win this idiotic fight ...against ourselves.

Isiah is the man. Only guy who made Jordan uneasy.

This is truth. Coach yells at player they can get up and leave the game, the team. Look at Kevin Porter Jr

Great players want to be coached. Do you listen LBJ?

I really don’t think that a normal person can have a say in this debate because I played Division I basketball and the thought of me budding heads with my head coach or screwing up on a play impacted whether or not I got minutes if any court time..... so this caters to special individuals I never felt like I was a scrub but I was a role player and the fear of making mistake is different for your role players.

I LOVE hearing Isiah Thomas speak.

This is a topic that has not even mentioned Lebron and what's Ironic is that theres alot of comments mentioning here more specifically his haters. They complain about how Espn talks about him alot and you want to know one of the reasons Espn talks about him so much? Its bc that's what most of these ppl want even if it's just to criticize him.

You have to because there dealing with a different generation of young people they can’t accept criticism it’s like disrespectful to them and not a game.

Preach

Players need to check their egos when they play the game. Nobody is above the team, end of story.

Y'all still talking about this shit??? I could see if he slapped or kicked the dude.... he got in his face and yelled, I've seen worse when people get their order wrong at McDonald's!!!!

These kids are soft, especially the black youth (I’m a black man). These kids today are just too damn sensitive. A lot of them raised by their emotional mommas, a lot of time without a father figure.

I remember freshman year I played ball and our coaches #1 rule was no cursing. It was at that moment I knew the season was a lost cause and we went on to go 1-19. It’s not about the cursing but frustration and anger has to be shown, yes we can be cool but we have to keep it 100% and not be buddy buddy every second. The sophomore year new coach. I remember in practice the shooting guard and point guard got into a little fight during practice cause they kept messing up the drill. Others went to break it but he insisted we “let it play out”. This coach saw the passion was there and apparent, that season we went 15-5 and made the playoffs

This is very interesting...

Today's coaches is just like today's players. All they care about is the money so coaches don't want to rub their players the wrong way in the fear of getting fired. Only "POP" coaches w/o fear of his players. I need you to play defense because that's what win Championships and if you can't or won't do that for me, I just don't need you....period.

How do you coach a guy who just signs a 300 million dollar contract??? I might slap my coach if he come at me sideways and I’m worth that much!

Love the discussion.

The aim of coaching is not to be tough on players. Its to get the best out of them. If that means being tough, then be tough. But if being "tough" isn't getting the desired results then you have to change your approach. Some coaches are just assholes. People will follow you if your methods actually work. A lot of these coaches don't know what the heck they are doing. And they hide being the excuse of players being too soft.

When I played their were many good players who refused to take coaching and discipline. Basketball players especially are so damn sensitive and divas. Except the female players. Their weirdly much more thick skinned.

Seeing conversations like this really makes me sick it comes back to the fact that these coaches make millions off of the back of these kids who get nothing your children will never have to work a day in their life why because I and countless other young men have made it that way for them so you're damn right you should be scared of me as a player because I hold the keys to your success

“ gentler “

Thought that was J.J. Watt for a second🤣🤣🤣

0:58 damn, that boat straight out from need for speed

Where the fuck does Isiah Thomas get the skill to be this articulate? Not saying he never had it but more highlighting that this man is a master

I couldn't or would've played for Bob Knight.......... because I don't play that "putting your hands me" shit!!! However......I could play for Tom Izzo or any other "so-called" tough coach.

I wouldnt even mention Isiah Thomas in the role of president or coach after what he did to the Knicks.

Don't argue with Geno The Goat

true Isaiah

YOU Can't Coach To Please ! A Coach is not there to be your buddy. His responsibility is to help the players learn and grow not only as players but as people. Teaching Basketball and being that authority figure to them.

It is about love, tough love. Being hard on your kids or your players because you expect the best outta them ans believe they can be better than what they think they can be. That's tough love, society is losing that

My man zeke gets it ...

Anyone who was coached by Bob Knight and survives understands tough coaches.

"Back in maaah Day" lol. I hate that train of thought of "Back in Mah Day"

Said by player who choked one his coach But yeah Isiah Thomas has one of the biggest attitude turnaround after retirement

Isiah Thomas very good basketball mind.

Just because a guy is THE coach doesn't mean he's a GOOD coach .....Sometimes you have a good team being coached by a terd

Or players don't want to be coached hard and society finds being coached hard is sensitive

Damn they have Pat on the show!!!!

I disagree. Coaches should be more sensitive to players. Bobby Knight was extreme.

I call BS. You think Nick Saban is worried about being too tough on someone?

Sports usually is a reflection of our society today's players college and pros are being taught, coached and raised to not have to accept accountability and responsibility for their actions. Today's players as well as today's younger generation are being taught that it's not okay to fail. People have to realize this failure can build character because it can teach you how to get up if you don't fall at something how can you find out how tough you are?

This is Division I. I don’t feel sorry for millionaires coaches who show their face on TV. They signed the contract deal with it. But Division II, III, and NAIA are still the same. No TV, no rich alumni, and good coaching.

Geno is 💯% correct. It all starts with parenting and the media. Parents are S-O-F-T or manipulative. Look no further than Lavar.

Facts. Bron been running his team since 01

I would make the argument that coaches aren’t afraid; the players as a majority lack mental toughness. Welcome to the harvest of Every Kid Gets a Trophy.

This is why Popovich is the Goat

Marcus got it 100%

It sounds like society is getting too narcissistic when the goal was to get more sensitive for each other.

The last words said, "the optics didnt look great for the society we're living in rite now!" Perfect! Izzo had balled up fist, and pointing like he wanted some of dude. Not a good look when a teenager has to hold back a developed grown man on national tv.

Isiah You was a great player but when you talk a see a growth a mature a mind that not a lot of the ex nba players have. I know that Paul Pierce did not grow at all

after the last year, id love to see this revisited. ill bet anything Jalens take does a 180

Teaching and coaching are very much one and the same... kids complain nowadays and it’s the adult that’s investigated or spoken to, not the child. We are making this generation soft and that the world owes them something, rather than ‘work for it’

Pay us like you owe us

If your a good coach it shouldn't matter how you talk to the players. That a lame excuse to be abusive to a kid

1:10 what is Isiah saying about his mom?!?

That's what happens when the biggest name in basketball is uncoachable.

Isiah played under bobby knight. What do you think isiah is going to say lolol Ps there's a story about isiah's mom wielding a shotgun clint eastwood style to save isiah from the neighborhood gangs: Not every mother is the subject of an award-winning movie, but Isiah Thomas's mother Mary was. "A Mother's Courage" starred Alfre Woodard, who won an Emmy for her portrayal of a tireless and spirited single mother raising her nine children on Chicago's West Side and fighting City Hall to keep her family from being moved against their will to an even more dangerous housing project. In the most famous scene in the movie, gang members come to her front door to recruit the Thomas boys, and Mary greets them with a shotgun and a stern warning: "There's only one gang here, and that's the Thomas gang." kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpilZ7Smy87JnIE.html

Nobody wanted to mention how soft everything has become?

You mean Bobby Knight didn't hug you. hold you and tell you a bedtime story????

There's MORE ENTITLEMENT today with these kids because they have been told how good they are by EVERYONE but when these kids get to the next level they EXPECT to be cobbled by college coaches, and that just not going to happen. These new age kids are still being breast feed instead of drinking from a garden hose.

Isiah Thomas should be a GM again I think he got unfair treatment the last time he was