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Mike Woodson's five best coaching moves

The Mario

As formally defined here, it officially stands as a tactic to rest Joe Johnson for upwards of 35 seconds of game time but usually no more than 10. Mario is chosen not for his actual defensive skill and certainly not for anything resembling an offensive repertoire but exclusively because Coach Woodson can guarantee Mario will try excruciatingly hard despite all reason pointing to do the contrary.

The Horford Treatment

For Coach Woodson, two fouls in the first half is basically a life or death matter. Not funny haha, but actual get the hell off the floor before you the life leaves your body sort of situation. First noticed by Bret, this coaching maneuver is extraordinarily useful as Hawks players only foul out when they are named Mario (see above) or are willing to commit more than three frustration fouls a game (see Josh Smith). While the whole practice can appear pointless and even detrimental at times, one must always remember lives are being saved.

The offense will work itself out offense

Sometimes called out athleting the other team. This Woodson tactic specializes in isolation, drives to the hoop by power forwards starting from two feet outside the arc, and at least four nearly motionless players. Coach Woodson employs this method so that he can focus on defense. Minus the defense of the pick and roll. He clearly does not care about that.

The there is three minutes to go in the first put in Mo Evans for Marvin Williams sub rotation

Deeply philosophical in nature, a strategy birthed in the mountain streams of the Andes. It centers around the fact that no matter what at the three minute mark in the first quarter Marvin goes out and Mo goes in.

The open mouth stare

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Got a favorite Woodson coaching move you do not see. Let me know.


 

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The Horford Treatment

One of the very few times I’ve done well in the area of naming things.

by Hoopinion on Feb 24, 2009 3:13 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

good call

with your permission, consider it renamed.

by hawksdawgs on Feb 24, 2009 3:20 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

by the way...

Is Thomas Gardner actually good? Apparently in the 2 or 3 games he played in the D-League, he averaged something like 23.5 points and 5 assists. And when he is in the games, he doesn’t look completely lost. I don’t know what happened last night, though. So I was just wondering if anybody actually knew anything about him.
I also just found a new reason to hate on Woody, however unreasonable.

by acie4mvp on Feb 24, 2009 8:13 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Hating on Woody

…is never unreasonable.

by Jesse28 on Feb 25, 2009 8:36 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

What about

The Inverse Joe?

You know, where Acie Law only gets 2 minutes per game and they base his ‘development’ around his ability to dish out assists to Solomon “3 fouls in 30 seconds” Jones, ZaZa “to hell with assists, I’m getting offensive rebounds off my own misses” and Flip “it’s easier when I just don’t share the ball” Murray.

le sigh…

by MLT on Feb 25, 2009 9:43 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

MLT

Welcome to peachtree hoops.

please start writing fan posts. you seem to have the essence of this blog down already.

by hawksdawgs on Feb 25, 2009 7:00 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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