Word: semashko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equals; he and other coaches spent too much time on paper work and not enough time on coaching-which resulted in poor discipline among the players, who conducted themselves in Rome with un-Soviet individualism while the Americans ran a happy, smooth cooperative. Moreover, top Soviet Basketball Boss Nikolai Semashko believed Spandarian's tall tales, and together they had "shelved" resolutions exposing the sad fact that the Russian team was "inadequately prepared physically, tactically, and especially technically." Noted Grigoriev sadly: "The fast break, once our most dreaded weapon, is now used only sporadically, and chiefly against our weakest opponents...
...Trotskyite dribblers, Soviet basketballers returned to the task laid down by Soccer Fan Khrushchev at the 21st Party Congress- preparing for the withering away of the state in the world of sport. Best guess was that this goal was being pursued without the advice of ex-Optimists Spandarian and Semashko, who had already taken just about all the withering a man can stand...