Rick Pitino adopts new offseason approach

Coaches love to rail against the ills of summer pickup basketball. This has everything to do with control. College basketball coaches are by their very nature major control freaks -- it's under "recommended skills" in the job description, is all I'm saying -- and pickup basketball represents the very antithesis of that control. There are no offensive sets, no zone defenses, no real structure. This can be a good thing -- a good pickup game is like nirvana -- but you can understand why coaches wouldn't be thrilled about their players spending an entire offseason doing whatever they want to do when they're on the court.

Source: http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/63640/rick-pitino-adopts-new-offseason-approach

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