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...small for the pros by maybe 4 in. in van Breda Kolff's opinion, Carril embarked on a career as a high school government teacher and basketball coach. He won early and often. In 1966 he applied for the coaching job at Lehigh and got it by default. One year later, as van Breda Kolff was completing a five- year-long coaching tour de force at Princeton, he recommended Carril to succeed him. The incumbent thought his protege would be a hard sell. "Pete is not in Princeton's image," says van Breda Kolff. "He is not gray flannels...
...much for the importance of image. But Carril actually did try, taking up orange-and-black bow ties at one point. That is Armond Hill's first memory of him, when Hill was a senior at Bishop Ford High School in Brooklyn. (Carrilism: Always recruit at schools whose names begin with Bishop or Monsignor.) "I saw this short guy with a bow tie and a big cigar lying down in the bleachers," Hill recalls. "After the game he came down and told me everything I did wrong and that he could make me a better player. It was that, more...
...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...