WaPo article on Coach K and Duke

[MChambers]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e9088784e2cc

It's a fairly long article.

Edit: It mentions this forum, so this gets a little recursive.

[JasonEvans]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e9088784e2cc

It's a fairly long article.

Folks... this is a good example of a bald link. The mod team expects DBR posters to do more than just posting a link. Give the community a better sense of what is here. As we say in the Decorum and Posting Guidelines --

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[Dukehk]

Great article!

Coach is still so fired up after all these years. The best part for me was how he went straight to Minnesota after senior night to scout mr. Matthew hurt.

[weezie]

Shoot. Can't get into it and refuse to pay WaPo anything.

The picture of K looks pretty scary though.

[WV_Iron_Duke]

Don't buy a hard copy of the Washington Post today and expect to find this article. The Coach K article ain't in it. Perhaps tomorrow.

[BLPOG]

Shoot. Can't get into it and refuse to pay WaPo anything.

The picture of K looks pretty scary though.

Open it in incognito mode/private browsing window and you should be able to access it.

[Billy Dat]

Having read so much about K, I found the stuff on his pivot to recruiting one-and-dones the most enlightening. There were specific details I had never read before.

[wsb3]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e9088784e2cc

It's a fairly long article.

Edit: It mentions this forum, so this gets a little recursive.

Thanks for sharing.

[devilseven]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e9088784e2cc

It's a fairly long article.

Edit: It mentions this forum, so this gets a little recursive.

Good article. Thanks for sharing.

[CrazyNotCrazie]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e9088784e2cc

It's a fairly long article.

Edit: It mentions this forum, so this gets a little recursive.

Thanks for sharing. Lots of interesting info put together nicely. And I loved the picture with Newton and Joey Beard sitting behind K on the bench. Glory Days...

[MChambers]

I got three thanks and an infraction for one post! Is that a record?

Okay, mods, I'll try to be wordier in the future!

[cato]

I got three thanks and an infraction for one post! Is that a record?

Okay, mods, I'll try to be wordier in the future!

I would assume the mod had that Coach K face on when you got the infraction. Scary!

[sagegrouse]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e9088784e2cc

It's a fairly long article.

Edit: It mentions this forum, so this gets a little recursive.

Maybe the Washington Post magazine on this Sunday?

[sagegrouse]

The thesis of the article is that, once K started coaching the national team in 2005, he absorbed what he learned from Kobe, LBron and the ilk and changed his approach to hoops.

Here is one key paragraph, right near the end:

He says Team USA taught him so much: to consider his players’ motivations and wishes, to occasionally reveal his sense of humor, to delegate to his staff. Which is why Krzyzewski leans on his three assistant coaches — whose ages average 38 years — to make sure players fully understand his instructions. Krzyzewski still demonstrates the occasional drill, though his days of taking charges are over, and some of his older players can hardly believe the fearsome man they once played for now prefers positive reinforcement, studies his phone to fuel an obsession with weather patterns, secretly maintains Twitter and Instagram profiles — Krzyzewski’s most senior colleagues claim even they don’t know his handles — to monitor his program and the world in which it operates.

[Duke79UNLV77]

The increased delegation after 1995 surely made K’s longevity possible. I’ve sometimes wondered if it made anything approaching 7 FFs in 9 years more impossible. Either way, it’s been a great ride!

[fisheyes]

This is the essence of K:


But Krzyzewski insists that’s one change he’s not quite ready to make.

“I’m not worn out. I love what I do,” he says. “I don’t know if the fire should’ve gone out already or is the fire just burning?”

He pauses, searching for the right words.

“I like the fire. So even in times when I’m tired, I said . . . ,” he presses his hands together and blows, as if to fuel an ember. “Because I don’t want it to go out.”




Burn baby burn!

[JasonEvans]

I got three thanks and an infraction for one post! Is that a record?

Okay, mods, I'll try to be wordier in the future!

Sorry, MChambers... I really did not want to pop you (you are one of the good guys around here, for sure!) but the mods are making a real effort to crack down on bald links. This is a thoughtful community. We can do better than, "Here is a long article about Duke and Coach K." Yes, you posted a link to an excellent article and thanks for that... but that almost makes the fact that you provided no context or explanation even worse of a crime. Does that make sense?

-Jason "it ain't about the words, it is about the context" Evans

[JasonEvans]

(Coach K) secretly maintains Twitter and Instagram profiles — Krzyzewski’s most senior colleagues claim even they don’t know his handles — to monitor his program and the world in which it operates.

Please, please, please let Coach K follow me on twitter!!!

I bet someone could study the followers of a bunch of different accounts and figure out what Coach K's secret handle is... but I am not up to the task.

[MChambers]

Sorry, MChambers... I really did not want to pop you (you are one of the good guys around here, for sure!) but the mods are making a real effort to crack down on bald links. This is a thoughtful community. We can do better than, "Here is a long article about Duke and Coach K." Yes, you posted a link to an excellent article and thanks for that... but that almost makes the fact that you provided no context or explanation even worse of a crime. Does that make sense?

-Jason "it ain't about the words, it is about the context" Evans

I'll take one for the team.

But a "bald" link? A little offensive to those of us who are follicly challenged, eh? Maybe a naked link?

[BandAlum83]

Please, please, please let Coach K follow me on twitter!!!

I bet someone could study the followers of a bunch of different accounts and figure out what Coach K's secret handle is... but I am not up to the task.

He may be a lurker out here, as well!