Dale8R
03-18-2003, 10:53 AM
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/134655409_legends18.html
OK, this isn't Big 12, not even the women's game, BUT it is basketball, and some great insights into the thoughts of some of the finest of the old time coaches. Seattle Times writer Bud Withers was the lucky fellow who sat there and took it all in. Oh, and those pictures are links to javascript popups.
Just a few quotes, please do read the rest, you won't be sorry.
"I'm convinced that television has been the worst thing for basketball," Wooden says. "I think it makes actors out of coaches, players and officials.
"But there are two sides," he adds, conceding the revenue is monumental.
"I miss the beauty of the post play," Harshman says. "They used to have a saying: 'Daylight in the post.' If I was a center and I got my (defensive) spot and you came down and tried to dislodge me, whoever made contact, it was a foul.
"Every time guys get the ball and bounce it on the floor and take a step back, that's a charge by the rule book, but it's never called. I think it's impossible to play post defense. It's a tag-team arm-wrestling match most of the time."
"The dunk has really hurt so many players," says Newell. "You look in the NBA box scores for a week, and I'll guarantee you, 60 percent of the centers starting are making 10 or less points. Some of them, zero. And they'll play 24 to 28 minutes."
OK, this isn't Big 12, not even the women's game, BUT it is basketball, and some great insights into the thoughts of some of the finest of the old time coaches. Seattle Times writer Bud Withers was the lucky fellow who sat there and took it all in. Oh, and those pictures are links to javascript popups.
Just a few quotes, please do read the rest, you won't be sorry.
"I'm convinced that television has been the worst thing for basketball," Wooden says. "I think it makes actors out of coaches, players and officials.
"But there are two sides," he adds, conceding the revenue is monumental.
"I miss the beauty of the post play," Harshman says. "They used to have a saying: 'Daylight in the post.' If I was a center and I got my (defensive) spot and you came down and tried to dislodge me, whoever made contact, it was a foul.
"Every time guys get the ball and bounce it on the floor and take a step back, that's a charge by the rule book, but it's never called. I think it's impossible to play post defense. It's a tag-team arm-wrestling match most of the time."
"The dunk has really hurt so many players," says Newell. "You look in the NBA box scores for a week, and I'll guarantee you, 60 percent of the centers starting are making 10 or less points. Some of them, zero. And they'll play 24 to 28 minutes."