How Hubie Brown would evaluate Lindsay Gottlieb and USC

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Hubie Brown, arguably the greatest teacher of basketball who has ever lived, worked his final live NBA game as a broadcaster this past Sunday. Brown called the Philadelphia 76ers-Milwaukee Bucks game for ABC with play-by-play man Mike Breen, marking the end of a broadcasting career which spanned more than 40 years (and was interrupted by more coaching forays from Brown). Hubie Brown is a legend not as a coach or as a broadcaster specifically, but for his ability in both roles to teach the game of basketball to a wider audience. His identity as a brilliant teacher of basketball includes his coaching and broadcasting work, but it also includes his decades-long work at basketball camps and clinics such as the legendary Howard Garfinkel camps in the 1970s and 1980s. When we consider how to evaluate the job Lindsay Gottlieb is doing for USC women’s basketball, we should ask ourselves: “What would Hubie Brown think?”

It is the basketball equivalent of the question, “What would Jesus do?” Unsure of what to think, do, or say? Turn to a foremost expert for an evaluation.

We don’t know exactly what Hubie Brown thinks about Lindsay Gottlieb and USC (unless you’re aware of a comment we haven’t seen or read). However, we can reasonably arrive at an understanding of how Hubie would go about the process of evaluating Gottlieb and the Trojans.

If you take basketball seriously and value good analysis of the game, you turn to Hubie Brown. Stop and ask yourself, before you criticize Lindsay Gottlieb, how Hubie Brown would study Gottlieb’s work at USC.

More than just points

Would Hubie Brown measure Gottlieb’s job performance primarily by how many points JuJu Watkins scores, or by how well JuJu Watkins shoots from the field each night?

More than just statistics

Would Hubie Brown evaluate Lindsay Gottlieb based on how many minutes JuJu Watkins plays? Would that be Hubie’s number one — or number three, or number five, or number 10 — concern when assessing Gottlieb’s job performance at USC?

More than…

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Author : Trojans Wire

Publish date : 2025-02-11 10:49:00

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