Word: carril
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carril did not make it easy for Hill, or anybody else, for that matter. "He can be absolutely brutal sometimes," says Hill, wincing even now. "He would yell 'See this. See that' at me," recalls Hill, who became one of the great floor leaders in the pros, dictating the flow of the game. "In the beginning, I didn't see anything...
Exactly what Carril sees on the 94-ft. by 50-ft. stage on which his players perform is a subject of some conjecture. U.S. Senator Bill Bradley is willing to try to define it. "He sees the game conceptually. He sees the whole game and the whole court, and he sees it in the context of the entire season." The writer John McPhee puts it in a different context. "Pete has a matador's view of basketball. It is a ritual, an art, a series of set pieces, one following the other like a series of slides." Yet George Leftwich...
...What Carril endeavors to do is teach his players the fundamentals of movement, passing and shooting. Carril exhibits, says Bradley, "clarity of thought about what he wants. Then he wills things to happen. His teams don't play jerkily. They flow. He lures the other team into the flow that he has organized, and then it is in fundamentally unfamiliar territory." In the process, Carril will take whatever options the opposing defense gives him, deflecting his attack away from the other team's strengths...
Sociology professor and longtime Carril observer Marvin Bressler sees more than strategy. He sees a framework of philosophy behind it. "Pete is a consequential man with all these quirks. He is the only man who can talk like a 19th century moralist and not embarrass me." Carril can fan himself into instant fury over the hypocrisy of a player who invokes the name of God before a game, then insults the integrity of the officials by pretending to be the victim of a foul once on the court. "If I'm ever refereeing a game and that happens," he says...
...team makes it to the Final Four, the payout is a whopping $1,146,000 more. Some coaches wear $300 shoes and earn six-figure incomes. The temptation to cut moral corners in pursuit of the pot at the end of the rainbow is immense. Carril wants none of that. When someone asked him if he was disappointed by the number of fans attending Princeton games, he said he'd love to see more fannies in the seats. "But there are a lot of All-Americas over in the library, and there is nobody there cheering them on." Says William...