NEW COACH FOR HOOPS!

[2112]

George Lynch has been hired by Matt Doherty. His position will be strength and conditioning coach for basketball. Thats a lot of experience and talent added to the staff!

[DallasDiehard]

Welcome to SMU, Coach Lynch!
Talk about a strength coach who understands what's needed to get ready (physically) to play.

[jtstang]

George Lynch has been hired by Matt Doherty. His position will be strength and conditioning coach for basketball. Thats a lot of experience and talent added to the staff!

Are you an insider?

[SMU Football Blog]

Sweet. The former lead guitarist for Dokken. That is awesome!

[ponyboy]

I understand it was down to Lynch and Yngwie Malmsteen

[SMU Football Blog]

Yngwie was never a team player. Doh made the right decision.

[Hoop Fan]

thats interesting, Lynch is certainly all over town these days. I like the idea of having a basketball guy as a strength coach assuming he does have the basic knowledge. good move if true.

[Terry Webster]

That is a terrific hire. Getting as many people in here from winning programs such as UNC will help change the attitudes really quickly.

[ponydawg]

were lynch and Stackhouse on the same team?

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

were lynch and Stackhouse on the same team?

Lynch was drafted in 93 and Stack was drafted in 95, but I think Stack was an early entry if memory serves me correctly, so I don't think he did.
Too bad we don't have a baseball program, we could probably get George's Father-In-Law, Rudy Jaramillo out too.

[carolsmu]

A quick Google search produced:

"He possesses true grit, a surprisingly complete game and an abiding understanding of what it takes to win. Most important, he has no qualms about doing all the dirty work needed to build a real team.

“It’s about persistence and going to work every day,” Lynch said in a recent telephone interview after a New Orleans Hornets practice. “A lot of kids think you gotta be Kobe Bryant or Kevin Garnett. That’s not the case. You’ve gotta do the little things that make a team better. Defending, rebounding, making the extra pass. You’ve got to know your role, know your limitations. And you always have to work to get better.”

That’s why Lynch, 34, continues to work on his jumper, because each season he wants to take and make a few more of the open looks he gets each game.

“If you watch Sports Center, you think it’s all about the crossover dribble and dunking,” he says. “That’s not it.”


A veteran's touch. Roanoker George Lynch's NBA legacy is hard work.
It’s all about making yourself coachable and giving yourself over to team chemistry, he says.

In 2000, he helped drive the Philadelphia 76ers to the NBA championship series, only to break his foot late in the playoffs. Without his trademark toughness, the ’Sixers fizzled against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Chemistry has always been important to him. That’s why he still keeps in touch with many of his North Carolina and his Patrick Henry High School teammates, which isn’t always as difficult as it might sound. PH’s Russell Turner (who starred at Division III Hampden-Sydney) is now an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors, and Curtis Blair, who was once drafted by the Houston Rockets, lives and works in Richmond and also doubles as an official in the NBA’s Development League.

Although his father still lives in Roanoke, and Lynch used to return here in the summers for youth-related activities, he now makes his off-season home with his wife and two children in Dallas, where he is building an athletic training facility that is scheduled to open next year. There, working with athletes in a variety of sports, Lynch hopes to show them that the intangibles permeate every phase of competition.

“I want to work with younger people,” he says, “and show them how to be coachable.”


http://www.theroanoker.com/favoritearti ... /lynch.cfm




http://www.nba.com/playerfile/george_lynch/bio.html

[The PonyGrad]

A basketball strength guy? Good, maybe we will not get so many foot and other stress injuries with our young players.

[CarMichael]

Help me out here, I'm a visitor. Is this a joke post, or if not, what is the basis for the report? I hadn't heard that Lynch is retiring this year.

Incidentally, if you polled North Carolina fans on who is the #1 guy for character in the program's history, Lynch would probably win. He is unbelievably hard-working, team-oriented, and competitive.

Stackhouse only played two years, so they didn't overlap. However, they probably know each other pretty well, since ex-Carolina pros commonly return to campus in the summers.

[ALEX LIFESON]

I think this is a great hire! I'm sure his office will be in the new ---- facility! I think 2005 was his last season, so he is young enough to relate to the players. Plus 12 years in the NBA, the players and recruits will listen to him. Welcome coach Lynch!

[carolsmu]

Assuming this is true, having Lynch as S&C coach rather than a "normal" assistant makes some sense.

Lynch just spent 12 years of constant travel in NBA. I'm sure he and his family would love a job where he could spend more time at home. Assistant coaches are constantly on the road recruiting. As S&C coach, Lynch will be Dallas based, but still could help with the coaching teaching/drills and would be there for the official recruiting visits to SMU.

By all accounts, this guy is a great teacher, savvy and a model any player would be well advised to emulate. Lynch just seems born to be a coach in many ways--what better place than SMU to begin!!!