- Jun 9, 2014
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Certainly off topic, but it’s basketball season and it’s slow around here. Please allow me.
I think any discussion about the best coaches of all time has to include this guy. Knight’s problem was always the intensity and the over-the-top temper, witness the embarrassing chair-throwing incident at Assembly Hall in 1985 and the Indiana firing in 2001 after he roughed up a player.
Bobby Knight is, was, always will be an SOB. I love him for it.
But he was a great coach, with over 900 wins and leader of the ‘84 Olympic gold-medal team after he booted Charles Barkley in favor of Michael Jordan.
I have to admit, I hadn’t thought about him in awhile. The video of him needing assistance onto the court yesterday at Assembly Hall caught me off guard. He’s apparently suffering from dementia and God knows what else. He’s 79.
Good to see him enjoying himself with his former players, including Isiah Thomas in this tweet. Hang in there, Coach.
I think any discussion about the best coaches of all time has to include this guy. Knight’s problem was always the intensity and the over-the-top temper, witness the embarrassing chair-throwing incident at Assembly Hall in 1985 and the Indiana firing in 2001 after he roughed up a player.
Bobby Knight is, was, always will be an SOB. I love him for it.
But he was a great coach, with over 900 wins and leader of the ‘84 Olympic gold-medal team after he booted Charles Barkley in favor of Michael Jordan.
I have to admit, I hadn’t thought about him in awhile. The video of him needing assistance onto the court yesterday at Assembly Hall caught me off guard. He’s apparently suffering from dementia and God knows what else. He’s 79.
Good to see him enjoying himself with his former players, including Isiah Thomas in this tweet. Hang in there, Coach.
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