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Doug Gottlieb Is Not Impressed With The State Of US Basketball Culture

After his great run at Cal, Pete Newell retired from coaching. He spent time as an AD and a GM with the San Diego Rockets (since moved to Houston) and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Somewhere along the line, he started privately coaching big men and that morphed into Big Man’s Camp, aka Pete Newell’s Big Man Camp.

One year he saw a young player go for a dunk and tried to explain to him what he was doing wrong.

“Don’t mess with my game,” said the young player.

“Son,” said Newell, “you got no game.