Larry Bird was different; he needed a place to settle down, a quieter environment to sit and discuss matters with his two assistant coaches.
After all, this was the first time in his career as a head coach, and it felt quite different from playing basketball.
Rick Carlisle tried to teach Bird in the office how to draw tactical diagrams, using circles, crosses, dashed lines, and solid lines to represent players' movements and passes on the court.
Bird decided to give up on this project after learning about it for a day; he was really not good at drawing and thought it was foolish to have players play based on diagrams.
"Rick, in the future, I'll leave the drawing work to you. I'll explain a tactic, and you can present it to the players."
"But... that's the head coach's job..."
"True, but no one says the head coach has to do the drawing, right? So it's fine for you to draw, isn't it?"
