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Message: [QUOTE="SoBeCuse, post: 2125027, member: 796"] I bring this up for a couple of reasons. One is that I heard a great interview with Pitino on Sirius previewing Jacksonville St. What he said should nullify any crazy idea that fundamentals don't need or should'nt have to be taught at this level. He said that a lot of players on the current team (Adel, Mahmoud, Mathiang, Spalding) were just tall and athletic but not "basketball players." He said they have been coached up constantly on fundamentals there. Mainly because he said on the high school level they mostly are not taught enough or the way they should be. Many players coming in he said do not know how to play basketball at the college level. Again he mentioned those four guys and how he drilled fundamentals into them. He said coaches need to be good teachers. I thought it was pretty cool. [/QUOTE]