Sickening K-Olympics article

[MCIGuy]

www.newsobserver.com/sports/story/1197134.html


As if K brought civility and the concept of team-work to the minds of NBA stars. No mention that K had the benefit of coaching essentially the same team over a period of three summers which in the end may the difference. Heck, I'd expect crappy writers for third-rate newspapers to put a piece like this together but to read Dave Telep's Dick Vitale imitation is a bit much. You'd think K just discovered the cure for cancer. Granted I didn't watch every game (obviously NBC wasn't all that impressed with Redeem Team as the press was) but in the ones that I did catch rarely did I say to myself "that's a great bit of coaching there by Coach K".

[RDF]

Aug 28, 2008 7:16:29 GMT -5 MCIGuy said:

www.newsobserver.com/sports/story/1197134.html


As if K brought civility and the concept of team-work to the minds of NBA stars. No mention that K had the benefit of coaching essentially the same team over a period of three summers which in the end may the difference. Heck, I'd expect crappy writers for third-rate newspapers to put a piece like this together but to read Dave Telep's Dick Vitale imitation is a bit much. You'd think K just discovered the cure for cancer. Granted I didn't watch every game (obviously NBC wasn't all that impressed with Redeem Team as the press was) but in the ones that I did catch rarely did I say to myself "that's a great bit of coaching there by Coach K".

MCI--that has been my point as well. It's BASKETBALL--and if the United States sends it's best players into competition-they'll win. If you get guys who aren't as good-there is a chance they'll lose. If '04 team was made up of guys who originally committed to play--there wouldn't be any discussion.

This angle that Colangelo and Coach K have "saved the world" is just pathetic. It's BASKETBALL. I really think everyone continued to live a nice life after the '04 Bronze Medal--or did the world come to end and I just survived--along with everyone else I know? Was it a dream? Did we all just wake up and realize that our lives are "saved" due to this Gold Medal?

Just wait until Vitale gets to talk about this--it's going to be awful.

[Elvado]

None of this changes the fact that K is a edited and has lost more international events than any other US Hoops coach.

[hifigator]

Elvado, or the fact that it's actually been quite a while since he did anything important as a college coach, in spite of the fact that he starts almost every year ranked in the top three and has top five recruiting classes every year to boot.