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Roy would be a better mentor to up and coming rappers than he would be to boxers. If you look at sports you see it all over the place, the top 1% rarely, if ever make great coaches, because they rarely needed coaching adn they dont get it. Its frustrating to them. Even the ones who do succeed. Like Larry Bird for example. He quit pretty quickly. It has to be hard on a guy like that explaining to someone with 1/2 the talent how to do something. Even the ones who work insanely hard, it has to be hard relating to someone who only gives it 99%. Look at Mike Singletary, by all reports he was a hard worker as a coach, he understands football, but he couldnt relate to the divas today and he didnt understand a player who wouldnt give everything they had 24-7. He wound up losing the lockerroom.
The best coaches are guys like Bob Knight, who was on the OSU National Championship team...as a bench player observing guys like Hondo and Jerry Lucas. He had observed greatness and understood it, but he also had to work to even get to that level, he had to study the game and he demanded one things from his players...the very thing he had brought to his game...toughness, intelligence and hustle. He only recruited players who could fit that role, but past that he studied and he helped players become the best they could be. He never didnt "get" why a player couldnt jump 44 inches in the air...like a Michael Jordan would have.
If you put RJJ in that role, as people have said, he'd be too frustrated by guys who couldnt leap in at the precise milisecond throwing a big punch or who couldnt practically dance away from punches with his hands behind his back. The athletes who have gifts that only god can give tend to make the worst coaches because they dont understand how to succeed without those gifts and they also wind up hating their job when they are frustrated all of the time.
The best coaches are guys like Bob Knight, who was on the OSU National Championship team...as a bench player observing guys like Hondo and Jerry Lucas. He had observed greatness and understood it, but he also had to work to even get to that level, he had to study the game and he demanded one things from his players...the very thing he had brought to his game...toughness, intelligence and hustle. He only recruited players who could fit that role, but past that he studied and he helped players become the best they could be. He never didnt "get" why a player couldnt jump 44 inches in the air...like a Michael Jordan would have.
If you put RJJ in that role, as people have said, he'd be too frustrated by guys who couldnt leap in at the precise milisecond throwing a big punch or who couldnt practically dance away from punches with his hands behind his back. The athletes who have gifts that only god can give tend to make the worst coaches because they dont understand how to succeed without those gifts and they also wind up hating their job when they are frustrated all of the time.
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