Before entering in the details of this receipt, what is Pesic famous for? His table of honours reports: as player the victory of the Yugoslav League and one Euroleague; as Head Coach 3 National Championship and 3 National Cups (namely in Yugoslavia, Germany and Spain); 3 European Cups (Korac, Euroleague and Euro Cups) and 4 Gold medals with National Teams (with a youth team for the FIBA U19 cup, 2 Euro Cups and 1 World Championship). Seen the above credentials I’ve decided to acknowledge this rule... Although, giving my “control freak” background, not passively accepting the principle before understanding more on the topic.
Hence, I’ve started a personal bit of search on the Internet to verify the general applicability in the Basketball world. Just for a nice test I took out some NBA rosters and salaries from last year championship. Surprise, surprise! Also the NBA teams seem to use a similar rule. So, suspect is that he was somehow “kidding” us and this is not his own rule while a wider applicable Basketball rule.
Looking for example at the roster composition and salary list from the 2013/14 NBA championship of Los Angele Lakers, one of the most honoured and famous NBA team, we have some 41% of players in the outside role, 29.5% inside players and 29.5% young players (I’ve taken the 26 years old as age threshold) distributed in the 2 spaces. Similar results can be obtained by setting a different threshold on age for the rookies with many other teams.
What’s my learning from this?
First, set a rule fitting the purpose to create a team and stick to it. If the rule is something shared on market or a best practice, that’s really work better.
Second, it is really important to set roles to avoid misunderstandings and setting purpose of people in the game.
Third, the introduction of fresh-brains it is always a must (the rookies in this space), to get new energies and motivate the older so that they can feel themselves also useful to the peer-coaching of younger players in the same role. Nonetheless you would have prepared in-house players for the future teams.
If this is a good rule which I ideally transposed in my job, from this story and analysis I’ve also taken that hierarchies, salaries and rankings should be also seriously taken into considerations. Side effects in the above example?
If we have a look at the salary level, and for a better simplification living aside for a while who is playing in the paint or not, it is also clear that the Lakers set a clear hierarchy: for example who is Captain and who is his deputy. Well actually, looking at the roster I’ve copied from the internet for my example, I still think that given his age, history, role and standing also Nash instead of Gasol would have been a very good co-pilot...but this is another story and however the Lakers set it clear. I suppose this should be an unsaid part of the Pesic rule.
Setting a good level of professional relationship within the team has also to do with what we know of the role that we are called to play within the team and for which price. This has a lot pros and cons, of course. Easy should be (or was at this point in time) for Kobe to accept Elias Harries, set at a minimum NBA salary given the second one being a rookie and having a lot to learn from him. Also Kobe would potentially felt honoured to help in developing a new talent. Again also having some fresh resources, coming from whatever playground, would set a good level of “sane” competition for the more seniors. Different story and less easier job could be to set the right relationship within the stars Kobe-Pau-Steve if they were not seasoned profy.
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