He was loud, he was yelling, and he was kicking stuff. It was crazy ... It reminded me of Bobby Knight.
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He was loud, he was yelling, and he was kicking stuff. It was crazy ... It reminded me of Bobby Knight.
I had some coaches that literally didn't want me to make it, and one in particular was [Team USA coach] Bobby Knight
I knew they were going to be good ... I know they score a lot of points and will be playing a lot of motion. They also play more zone than a coach (Bobby) Knight team in the past.
When Skip comes up, everybody has the same reaction ... I used to tell people that Bobby Knight was a cream puff compared to Skip. But at the same time, anyone who really knew him had so much respect for what he accomplished. One of the many qualities I admired about the man, in all the years I knew him, I never heard him once use his physical handicap as an excuse.
If you'd told me our perimeter went 0-for-14 and we'd won ... ... It didn't take Bobby Knight to figure out we maybe should pound the ball inside.
I was playing for a coach who was cut from the Bobby Knight cloth and I kind of rebelled against him a little bit ... And at some point he said to me, 'Look, this is not about you. It's about the team.' And it took me a while, I think, to really understand that, but that's how I've approached the work that I've done in politics ever since.
You could argue that he gave an awful contract to Castillo because he's hispanic...but he gave an equally awful contract to schoenweiss and he's white. He traded for Maine, signed Billy Wagner...they drafted Pelfrey...Stokes is white, Brandon Knight is white, Joe Smith is white...Daniel Murphy is white...so Nick Evans...as are John Niese, Mike Karp and Bobby Parnell...