Hawks coach, you really ripped me a new one while I was away. Let me see if I can get back a little.
I'm from Indiana so I take this seriously. I don't care if you win your conference tournament 50 years in a row and win 20 games for 100 years in a row. It is all about who raises the trophy at the end of the year! Coach K has 3 trophies with a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong list of blue chippers during his tenure. The real coach K, the General, has 3 trophies and you can find out a lot about them from your mechanic, or the guy who does your taxes or the grocery store manager. You know why? Because these are the types of guys that won those trophies with coach Knight! Coach K and Dean Smith always get this "he's won 20 games for the past 15 years, been to 8 final fours and won blah, blah, blah." And they get all of the players. With three trophies each? For every one Indiana player on a championship team from Indiana you can name I can name two on a Duke or North Carolina championship team. How can you win a trophy in the "time-out" game, lose Lynch, add Stackhouse and Wallace and not make some noise? The stench from the 1990 Duke vs. UNLV game still hasn't gone away!
You give coach Knight those players and see how many trophies he has!
Jordan, Brad Dougherty and Matt Dougherty (was Kenny Smith on this team too!) and you can't get to the final four?
Hurly, Laetner (spelled wrong but you should get tossed if you stomp on someone's chest), Grant Hill, Thomas Hill, Brian Davis and one of the worst coaching jobs by a coach (Pitino) in the final seconds of a game (Thomas Hill had fouled out, Grant hill still can't hit a long jumper, Bobby Hurley couldn't throw it in the ocean until he was a senior so why don't you put two people around Laetner) and you win two after beating the team that beat you by 30 the year before and is one of the greatest college teams of all time (UNLV, remember they had it all)?
My blood pressure is up
