DESTIN, Fla. -- In order to build team cohesiveness, Arkansas coach Bret Bielema has told his players they should be more like Stephen Curry and less like LeBron James.
"I told our guys [last year during the NBA Finals] here at Arkansas we need to be a little bit Curry and a little less LeBron," Bielema said Tuesday at the SEC Spring Meetings. "We've got to be a little bit more about the team and working together and the chemistry."
Bielema made the remark while going off a tangent when asked whether Baylor coach Art Briles' firing will serve as a wake-up call for coaches to hold players more accountable for claims of sexual violence. Bielema used the anecdote as an example of ways he says he teaches Arkansas players.
"I listed all the guys that got drafted ahead of [Curry] that weren't even in the league anymore, and I think about it a lot because I knew that [Arkansas] players were engaged in basketball," Bielema said. "I don't know anything about basketball. I probably shouldn't even be commenting on it, but I knew the story of Curry. I think we use outside stuff like that all the time that helps us build our program in the way we want."
Curry, who this year became the first unanimous MVP in NBA history, was the seventh player picked in the 2009 draft. Two players selected ahead of Curry -- Hasheem Thabeet and Jonny Flynn -- are out the NBA. Curry easily surpassed players picked ahead of him.
