"People Thought I Was CRAZY For Starting Devin Booker" Former Head Coach Earl Watson Explains
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- In this clip from "No Chill with Gilbert Arenas," Agent Zero is joined by former head coach of the Phoenix Suns, Earl Watson, and they talk about what it was like starting Devin Booker at 18 years old. Watch "No Chill with Gilbert Arenas" every Monday at 8pm ET / PT on fuboTV or stream it FREE at fubosportsnetwork.com
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Full episode is in the end card, click through to see more of Earl dropping gems
Coach, call me to a practice or give me a shout. Im a hidden Gem, i have all the talent to be the greatest scorer of all time. Coach Watson, God Bless you.
Coach defined the roles for each player, and voiced his plan.
That is exactly what Jimmy Butler wanted Brett Brown to do with the 76ers.
Facts, but that's why he's finally gone. Now we going to see what Doc can do.
The sixers should have given Earl Watson a chance instead of Doc. Earl didn't have much with the Suns but he made the most out of it. Doc had everything he needed with Lob City Clippers and current Clippers team, and still he messed up
Big Facts
@@CWJ0725 I was/am iffy about the Doc signing but that's not the right idea. The last Clippers team played less than 30 total games together, PG was beyond horrible and they were still up 3-1, leading by almost 15 at the end of the 3rd quarter of Game 5... The *only* thing Doc was wrong for was not being able to close. But coaching-wise, he did everything to put them in a position to succeed.
Doc is a dinosaur in the league
Players love authentic coaches
You can be authentic and likable all you want that don’t mean you gonna win sure as hell doesn’t mean your coaching style will work. He’s a cool dude and definitely can relate to players but Devin Booker scores 70 points in a losing effort and your letting the team celebrate afterwards, I think he focused too much on the being liked by the players instead of coming up with a system that would win ball games.
@@jeremyjones2485 - Call the situation as it stood at that time: the Suns was not talented enough to win more games in the West. I’m primarily talking about consistently good defense because - based on some of the games I watched - they blew leads frequently.
Until they don't win
But NBA team owners don’t
owners love winning coaches...
"Aight, let's hoop." Outro got me thinking they won the championship that year. 😂
Had the same thought then was like wait a minute...🤔 😂
He sounded way too confident right there lmaooo they didn't "hoop" at all
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LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO
😂😂😂
Earl Watson deserves a coaching spot everything he broke down he made these guys monsters with speech and give them alot of field goals to take brilliant#
@@GermanCruzthedev yeah it's the west and it was a re- building team who had injuries he didnt have enough stars he was turning them into stars though
no he doesnt.. hes a scrub
I think he’s more of great assistant coach who can communicate with players and get the best out of them, not the same when it comes to countering opponents’ strategies.
He def should be a asst Coach... head coach has more complexities to finding the teams strength and counter tactics vs opponents 🏀
@@sganet_ I agree! In all sports there are just certain guys who are great assistants or associate head coaches that aren't quite built to be the guy. So yeah he should definitely be a coach on a staff. Also I blame McDonough and Sarver here. He had only been an asst for PHX for one season before he was so quickly elevated. If Sarver wasn't so damn cheap and incompetent things might not have gone so bad so fast.
All these "yes men" coaches getting rehired 4-8 times after getting fired. Why isn't earl in the conversations for a head coaching job in the NBA?
Smh
Exactly for the situation with Booker he does what he feel is best for his team not what the front office thinks. No organization wants a coach that won’t bend to their will unless you’re Pop.
@@TheChosenOne971 Yeah that’s what’s so underrated about Pop but after hearing this interview I wonder how all the other coaches are behind the scenes, Mr. Watson seems like a really great Coach and being honest he wasn’t given the best hand in Phoenix
@@jamesonedwardsii4943 pop is the spurs organization though. Even coach that joins the nba is basically playing the role of a pet to the front office
Cause he ain’t black enough lol😭🤣
It's crazy how teams fire good coaches like this and years later the team is still losing. The man developed some good players and would have continued to do so, like what Mike Malone is doing in Denver, if still had the chance
A black coach has a year or two at most to produce.
@@fal8872 and unless you're a Doc Rivers or Mark Jackson or Byron. Produce means, you better win a championship or at least finals appearance.
He wasn't a good coach, not a good X and Os guy. Booker has been developing every year since he left, Markeif has improved since then. He was just a player's coach. He talks a good game years later though, making himself look as good as possible
He looks better to you because you don’t often hear coaches talk in this lingo. That’s why. If you understand basketball and are in the game he’s not saying anything foreign lol. The worst coach in the league can break down like he just did
Teams blame coaches for bad timing and lack of development. Sometimes a team and coach just gotta stay together even if it takes 5 years just see where it goes lol.
This proves the NBA is a really messed up system that needs to be gutted.I watched this entire podcast and thoroughly enjoyed hearing Earl's perspective on the game. What he did for Devon can not be talked about enough. Just looked at what Del Harris did to Kobe Bryant before he had a chance to get on the court. Kobe lost 2 years because of an old-school coach more worried about what his peers thought of him than playing a kid with crazy potential. Mad respect to Earl! Hopes he lands another coaching job at some point.
Kobe everytime he went against a del harris team. Dude was smoking him. 40+ points. 50+ points. 60+ points.
Well, Del Harris was an ass coach
Kobe only had a bad rookie year, but his second season he was the 6th man and became an All Star in the 97-98 season.
@@Jab-Cajun91 Kobe himself said he lost 2 years...just going by what he said in the interview with Darius Miles and Q.
Eddie Jones was nice back then
Good coach.. the game is changing and most coaches do not want to change.
Game ain't changing the Lakers just won by playing 2010 basketball
@@James-ym7lx only when rondo was on the floor
@Jolly I was referring to the game of Basketball overall. I do agree with you that the Lakers coaching staff made adjustments during the series. Teams referred back to the way the Spurs and Pop.. planned the defense scheme to stop a young LBJ. LBJ is a smarter player now and he has better talent surrounding him. NBA should be on fire next season with the Nets and Warriors back healthy.
Jolly Roger nah there’s a reason javale didn’t touch the floor
Yessir.
Damn, he's right. What kind of coach says that to his players? Lol but I definitely respect him for that
@_H_ in today's climate, it sounded a little harsh so I decided to put an "lol" on it so no one gets butthurt
@@seize3 a coach doing that seems real and fucked up at the same time
When you a coach on a losing team with with no expectations other than to build... You doing whatever the fuck you want. Just too bad it didn't work out for him.
Different form coaching grown men
Imagine if he had this same type of honest dialogue with Ben and Joel. They’d be the best duo in the league right now
I wonder how different this playoffs would be, if they had read your comment
Got me ready to lace up my kicks
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Lol yoo this coach is the definition of real....I sat on the bench my WHOLE freshman year & my coach never said a to me
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That’s the problem.
@ That’s because High School coaches aren’t looking to develop talent. They just play who’s talented. In High School you have to work on your game yourself and just be around the sport a lot because Coaches don’t do that. A GOOD ONE will though.
It's like being with in a relationship with a woman. Half the time you're guessing what the fck she wants done. Dudes don't want to be guessing shit. Tell me what you need, what I have to do, and what I should expect (and don't fkn nag, if possible XD ).
Respect, get him while he's still cheap
I would have loved to play for coach like that lol "you, you not playing." 😂😂😂 I'd be up all night playing 2k taking all the shots
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Dead asf 💀 🤣
He should get an interview just off this analysis alone!
If the suns weren’t doing so bad at the time, Earl would still be coaching the team
And if you score more points than the other team you will win the game
@@youngdee6421 really? I didn’t know bruh
Please go watch the whole interview, Earl out here spitting that real through and through.
Welcome to Toronto
This aged pretty well!
I’d say 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Earl Watson is the type of Coach a player would love to play for. Straight forward and no sugar coating. Plus he knows how it is to be a player...
He sounds perfect fit under Coach Spo with the Heat
Now this man was a coach.
YES
As intelligent as Brother Watson may sound, if the players don’t buy into his system it will not work.
No shit sherlock
I mean u really could say that about every coach tho
@@chrisbrandstedter4598 & every system. Next he’s going to tell us the sky’s blue and the grass is green.
Ima tell my kids this was "Julian Newman"
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Ain't no one gonna be talking bout julian by then 😂😂😂
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@@s6xtrillion1 dang bro u should go take care of what’s bothering you soo you don’t take it out on niggas you don’t know 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I love Monty Williams but I really respect Earl Watson and he definitely got screwed by terrible management and ownership during his time in PHX
33-85 🤷♂️
Watson wasn’t good head coach and should just be assistant coach or development coach
this still goes hard !!! Hubie and Earl fellas ...
He got a big head, thats why he smart. BIG BRAIN 🧠
i will always have respect for e wat, he started my fav pg, tyler ulis.
I always liked Ulis' game, back in Kentucky
@@VitaminVision he was the best floor general I’ve ever seen in college
I like coach that direct talk is what i want to Herr honesty gotta respect it
I’ll never forget when I saw my man earl in Vegas for nba all star weekend. Walking thru the Bellagio with a woman on each arm and they were LOVIN the time they had with him. Mans was super smooth and approachable, super humble. Him and Lamar Odom were the only ones mobbin the blvd with no security. EVERYBODY had at least 2-3 guards with em. Melon had like 8 😂
Damn paying Brandon Knight and Eric Bledsoe 140 mil combined 😂😂😂
Damn I would love a coach like this
This is the exact problem LaMelo is having in Charlotte. They paid Rozier and Hayward before Melo got drafted but he easily became their best player however the organization still pretended like it was Hayward and Roziers team which ruined any chemistry they could’ve formed.
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The power of understanding your role brings confidence
I like that he was straight to the point and the fact that he seen something special with Devin Booker before most people
Everyone talking about his analysis and breakdown, but I’m over here just admiring my mans fade, too crispy
Always fw’d Earl 💯
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Coach to real
I remember when earl watson played for my grizzlies I saw him at the wolfchase mall in Memphis TN
If you ever get a chance to meet this man you will be IMPRESSED. One of the best minds in basketball.
That's awesome..... I love this "insider information" nothing like it
Earl Watson was with Joy Taylor. He gets my upmost respect!
"Aight, let's hoop." Outro got me thinking they won the championship that year. 😂
Unbeaten on the bubble!!
I don't know why Earl Watson was fired to this day. He was a very good coach.They struggled for a period but most teams with the kind of talent he was working with do that often.
book was 19 and had already started like 10 games in a row before hornacek was fired. bledsoe went out for the season in december of that year and then brandon knight went out halfway through january and didnt come back til march. watson was named interim in february. who tf else was this guy supposed to start at that point????? yeah he gets some credit for starting book over brandon knight the NEXT season but he already saw 50 games of book starting by then & brandon knight couldnt even stay on the court if he wanted to with all those injuries.....
In addition to that, Knight is 6'3". He was a good scorer for a pg in Milwaukee, but at sg, he's just too small to consistently get his shot off. And the 2 pg's experiment was failing everywhere.
Booker was clearly the right choice, but that doesn't have as much to do with the kind of player Knight is as it did him just being out of position and Booker being a natural 2 and superstar talent. He really needed to stay a pg and figure out how to run an offense.
Yeah this is a bunch of Earl BS. He had the worst offense I've ever seen from an NBA team
I have new respect for this dude. 🔥🔥🔥👍👍
They had so many coaches I forgot he even coached this team
That was fire... Real ass coach right there
This is one of the best interviews they did to be honest
Straight talk, no Bullshit
Damn he said some powerful gems
Coaches like him always get Fired!
Bledsoe and Knight were not pattern players. They were ball dominant slashers.
PJ went on to be the best corner 3 shooter in the league. Booker is now dropping 40 in the finals. Morris won a championship as a small ball center.
This guy should be coaching the Pelicans
Deffo should get another chance either as assistant or head coach for a young team again.
When real recognize real goes right💯
Gotta fuckin love it as hooper!
Who’s here after they Getting ready to win the the Finals😂
Earl Watson is a leader and I would love him to get a shot with our young Pistons... I know Casey isnt the guy for this rebuild...Watson needs a shot at being a head coach again
Who remembers this guy guaranteeing Colin Cowherd that Lonzo was transcendent 🤣
A broken clock is right twice a day
Damn good couch
That’s how you coach!!!! Let’s fuckin hoop
World champs now
I’d love to play for a coach who was that honest witch is players.
Solid info... Thanx Earl! 😁
"YOU...you not playing!" Died laughing lol. But salute to Earl Watson no BS coach
This is the guy the clippers need
Smart coaching
Earl Watson in here talking like he did a great job with his coaching plans and defined roles of the players. In actuality, the Suns were just 23-59 that year.
Pretty sure management wanted them to tank so they could get a top pick and go for a guy like Ayton.
Shit i was watching ready to get my assignment lol
I hated Jeff Hornacek for holding Booker back. Earl Watson unleashed the beast!
More black head coaches are needed!!!!!!
Can someone explain what he means by “pattern player”? Is it another saying for predictable player?
Coach’s biggest accomplishment so far was that he started Devin Booker 😂 dude would bring that topic to all interviews
The GM/Management didn't think to consult Earl or the staff before investing 140 mil into the exact same type of guard, interim or not??? and I fux wit Bledsoe and B. Knight, where tf is B. Knight? 🧐 Book has a top 10 skill set in the league, he plays ALOT OF PG. Rubio really helped him be more effective this year and Oubre can be a regular problem, Phx needs a PF that can 3 and D and they cooking with hot grease....
even Kieff is like "dafuq, me?"
He should still be a coach
This Coach is a real G
Noob question i know but: whats a pattern player? Is it someone that plays a very predictable game?
and y'all lost 1000 games. lol Watson is my man though I still remember when I first saw him and matbarnes play against jay will and duke. he had like 17points in a loss but I fell in love with his game
"Let's hoop"
*Suns go 4-15 to finish the season and coach gets fired 😂
(i don't actually know what their record was after Watson took over, just making a joke)
this was his suns' record (first year he took over mid season)
2015/16: 33 games 9-24 .273%
2016/17: 82 games 24-58 .293%
2017/18: 3 games 0-3 .000%
@@flytii lol thanks, I actually gave him too much credit by guessing 4-15 😂
@@wesmaly 😆
This man is a genius
Earl really taking credit for starting booker 😂😂. That suns team was weak and booker was the obvious choice
Earl Watson needs to be somebody's head coach asap
This made me instantly respect him as a head coach... I never knew why he was a hc but this makes me think he should be
Dude dope
Where did the suns ended that year? Did they made the playoffs?
Dude lucky to have joy taylor
I know that's right coach.
Pattern player, what does this mean?
It’s all nice and cute when you’re all for the player and their success even when they’re not playing for you... but GMs and owners have got to be thinking like wait, if he’s going to be successful - might as well be here. Then if not, you may follow the player out the door too.
That's probably how they looked at it too, but it doesn't have to be that cut and dry.
You can build an elite organization and look out for players' best interest even when you trade them away at the same time. That kind of business even builds good report with players for FA.
I still can't believe this man pulled Joyce
Damn i love this
Coach is real
Straight Business
What's a pattern player?
You can be authentic and likable all you want that don’t mean you gonna win sure as hell doesn’t mean your coaching style will work. He’s a cool dude and definitely can relate to players but Devin Booker scores 70 points in a losing effort and your letting the team celebrate afterwards, I think he focused too much on being liked by the players instead of coming up with a system that would win ball games.
I thinkk Earl's issue was he was looking too far into the future. He saw what Booker could do three years down the line without considering what he could do currently. Sure Kieff and rookie Booker could get buckets as the primary options, but they're not good enough players to have that much freedom. It was good for Booker's development but as a young coach you gotta prove you can win ball games first.
Phoenix was never going to win Bledsoe knight come on. The team and future was booker and whoever was coming not at that moment
dds fanatic001 That culture he was creating was laughable if you go back and look at the rosters he had you’d be surprised how much players are actually doing good on other teams sometimes it does take a coach to bring it out of you. Devin Booker, TJ Warren, Eric Bledsoe, Markieff Morris, Derrick Jones, Jared Dudley, Leandro Barbosa, PJ Tucker, Brandon knight if you ask me that is around the same talent they have rn maybe even more and the coach this year almost got them to the playoffs.
Once a leo turned lion now judah That culture he was creating was laughable if you go back and look at the rosters he had you’d be surprised how much players are actually doing good on other teams sometimes it does take a coach to bring it out of you. Devin Booker, TJ Warren, Eric Bledsoe, Markieff Morris, Derrick Jones, Jared Dudley, Leandro Barbosa, PJ Tucker, Brandon knight if you ask me that is around the same talent they have rn maybe even more and the coach this year almost got them to the playoffs.
@@jeremyjones2485 - I disagree. The Suns have more balanced roster (better defense to pair with offense) compared to when Earl coached them. Examples: Rubio sets plays, defends, slashes, and has an improved jump shot. Ayton, Saric, and Baynes rebound, defend the post, and can make mid-to-long-range jump shots. Oubre has improved defense on the perimeter to go with scoring.
What a boss.