By Eurohoops Team / info@eurohoops.net
He is the first ever European born coach to have a head coaching job in the NBA and so the pressure is on for Igor Kokoskov.
“I feel a little bit of pressure, in a way that if this experiment does not sustain, then maybe the American public will question if we need foreign coaches, because we invented this game and we are the best in the world,” Kokoskov said in ‘The Jim Rome Show‘.
However, there is a flip side, which is that Kokoskov has already accomplished many things in the NBA, and he has been an assistant for 18 years: “On the other side, I have been in this league for 18 years and I consider myself as an NBA coach. There are two types of coaches. You can get it done, you can win, or you can lose. There is nothing in between. Maybe I was lucky to get a coaching job if I’m good enough then the quality will show.”
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