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Bobby Knight’s emotional return to Assembly Hall
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Actually majority at IU understand the firing. It is Bobby Cursing the Hoosiers, not a curse because they fired him. They think Knight has that type of power. (Tongue in cheek) They understand he was hurt but there have been many chances for him to come back like the 25th anniversary of the undefeated team, he did not....until now.
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Knight was still holding a grudge over the idea of a reconciliation as late as 2017. His health is failing. I think he came to the sensible realization it was hurting him more than anybody.
No one said Knight was perfect. He was far from it. He was hot-headed, bombastic, egotistical, and anything else you want to call him. A throwback coach to a different era of thinking. And he won, a lot.
Sort of like George Patton on a basketball court.
No one said Knight was perfect. He was far from it. He was hot-headed, bombastic, egotistical, and anything else you want to call him. A throwback coach to a different era of thinking. And he won, a lot.
Sort of like George Patton on a basketball court.
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I think the posters here would be well served by watching the movie Hoosiers. As you said, basketball in Indiana, and esp Bloomington, is a form of religion.
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I used to work with a gal who played B-ball at IU when Knight was coaching the men's team. According to her, the women's team coach would occasionally invite Coach Knight to their practices to give pointers to their team. Coach Knight was always great about it, but occasionally he would start screaming at the women when they were screwing up. My co-worker said they would come to a complete stop and all look at him as they really weren't used to getting yelled at like that. Apparently Coach Knight would always get an embarrassed look on his face and apologize - apparently having forgotten whose practice he was at. Clearly a very intense guy at all times.
As for the '84 Olympic team, I did not remember it being a choice of Jordan vs. Barkley. I actually recall interview before the tryouts where Coach Knight was asked what he expected the make-up of the roster to be and he replied that he was planning on keeping "five guards, five forwards, three centers and Jordan."
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How much of a paradox is it that a guy who was perceived as so physically and emotionally abusive could at the same time elicit “near fanatical devotion” from his former players?
Jordan played for Dean Smith in college, but he got a taste of Knight’s fanatical intensity and attention to detail during the ‘84 Olympics. He was a military guy. He broke down his players before turning them into men.
”Bobby Knight, he got after us. One story real quick. He told Michael that’s the worst he ever played. Now, Michael’s going to deny this but he cried, he cried after the game because of the fact that Bobby Knight told him, ‘You should apologize to everybody in here.’ … Leon Wood was his boy at the time so Leon Wood went over there to pat him on his back and say, ‘It’ll be alright, it’ll be alright.’ But the thing about it, Bobby Knight was just trying to instill some, you know, even though we didn’t play that bad, it’s the fact that he just wanted us to wake up for the next game because anything could happen. But that’s the way Bobby Knight coached.”
Sam Perkins: Bobby Knight made Michael Jordan cry at 1984 Olympics - ProBasketballTalk | NBC Sports
Jordan played for Dean Smith in college, but he got a taste of Knight’s fanatical intensity and attention to detail during the ‘84 Olympics. He was a military guy. He broke down his players before turning them into men.
”Bobby Knight, he got after us. One story real quick. He told Michael that’s the worst he ever played. Now, Michael’s going to deny this but he cried, he cried after the game because of the fact that Bobby Knight told him, ‘You should apologize to everybody in here.’ … Leon Wood was his boy at the time so Leon Wood went over there to pat him on his back and say, ‘It’ll be alright, it’ll be alright.’ But the thing about it, Bobby Knight was just trying to instill some, you know, even though we didn’t play that bad, it’s the fact that he just wanted us to wake up for the next game because anything could happen. But that’s the way Bobby Knight coached.”
Sam Perkins: Bobby Knight made Michael Jordan cry at 1984 Olympics - ProBasketballTalk | NBC Sports
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I loved Bobby Knight...grew up watching a lot of IU basketball when I was a kid. Even attended basketball camps there a few times and he’d come in to talk and speak to us. He scared the living **** out of me.he gave a big speech to start camp where he laid the ground rules and his face was as red as his sweater at the thought anyone would break a rule. He finished that speech by saying before you do anything ask yourself “would I do this with Bob Knight standing right behind you?” I don’t believe anyone ever got out of line 
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And rat face loved the man.
May have been a good coach but was a pathetic excuse for a human being...........His former players from that unbeaten team begged him to come back. Fans would have loved him back. But he was too selfish and self centered to do it. Now that he is about gone mentally they brought him back. Feinstein's book on Bobby was generous but gave us a glimpse of the guy.
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Or Allen Iverson.
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Cannot stand the guy and never could. And I don't think he's very smart. He may know basketball but he's pretty ignorant of pretty much everything else. And I don't find his tactics funny at all. It's him trying to cover up for his inadequacies.
But hey, that's just me.
But hey, that's just me.
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I, too, am not a Bob Knight fan...
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