Interview with ¢. E, McBride

Meany of those eastern coaches camot talk a good college basket
ball game, let alone coach it, For instance, they constantly harp on
the "pio" or "pick", meaning pickle, There is no such vawd in standard-
ized basketball nomenclature as set forth by the Heniniteh Committee of
the National Basketball Rules Committee, or the National Association of
Basketball Coaches. ‘The proper term is "screen" or "block",

A screen is a legitimate play and a block is a foul. But the
professionals call it "pick", which means a foul or a block, Out west
you never hear of a "pick" because it is not in amateur basketball
| terminology, but in professional terminology.

Nat Holman and Joe lapchick were both professional coaches and
that is the only terminology they kmow. In explaining the wide
divergence between the eastern and the western game, I have often
pointed out that many of the original basketball coaches in the east
were professional players and they taught their college players the
professional game. ‘The professional plays to win for his meal ticket
depends upon it. The amateur plays to win, hut the gate receipts go
to the college instead of the players therefore, the objective is
entirely different.

Professional basketball has never thrived in the west. The
professional game is now dead in the east because the professionals
killed it and these professional players turned to coaching college
teams so they could make a living, Therefore, you have a different

game in the east as compared to that played in the west,