Word: carril
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...Thompson figured that if the system could help Ivy Leaguers win - Pete Carril, who devised the offense, won 13 Ivy titles during his 29-year tenure (including 1996, when I was on the team), and Thompson clinched three more as Princeton coach from 2000 to '04 - imagine if the most talented players in the country could augment backdoor passes with individual skills. A trip to the Final Four perhaps? Georgetown's offense has clicked, with Thompson expertly mixing finesse with freedom. For example, before Green's game winner against Vandy, Thompson gave the NBA-bound Big East MVP spare instructions...
...Hall of Famer John Jr. isn't the only looming legend. Hall of Famer Carril, 76, has been carefully following his basketball progeny's stunning three-year turnaround at Georgetown. And though Carril calls JT3's Hoya players "darn levelheaded Joes," they admit to not immediately buying into a system that demands total team discipline. "When you're coming from high school and you're the superstar of your team, you can sometimes ask, ?Why are we doing this?'" says Green. "But we soon realized that nobody could guard us." Thompson never considered scrapping the Princeton...
That simply can’t be right. After all, this is Princeton we’re talking about, the team that has 23 NCAA tournament appearances, right? The team that went 13-1 in the Ivy League last year? The legendary program built by Pete Carril? The school that has an entire offense named after...