Word: knighting
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...Knight has a reputation as being an almost fanatical disciplinarian. Both Ken Wolfe and Jim Fitzsimmons went to basketball clinics where Knight was an instructor and came back shaking their heads about some of the punishment he meted out to inattentive ballplayers. Fitzsimmons said that on one occasion Knight told a boy who had not paid attention during one of his lectures to run a quarter of a mile to get a blade of grass. When the boy returned, Fitzsimmons said, Knight told him he had gotten the wrong blade and should go back into the woods and get another...
Wolfe said that on another occasion Knight had kicked a kid who was sitting on a basketball and told him: "That ball is worth more than...
...interview last week, Knight explained his philosophy of basketball. "I only ask of my ballplayers what was asked of me at Ohia State when I played there under Fred Taylor. I ask for two hours a day of their time and expect that they will give me the attention they give their professors...
Specifically, Knight said that to play for him, "each individual must totally submerge his own personality for the good of the team. Each person must make the sacrifice and if he isn't willing to do that I don't want him in my program...
...Knight's trademark is defense and he spends the majority of his time in practice working on fundamentals. Early in the season his players work on individual fundamentals of guarding a man with the ball, without the ball, defending against a man playing on the high post and on the low post. After mastering basic one-on-one defensive fundamentals. Knight has his players use these skills in two-on-two situations, gradually progressing to full game conditions. Throughout his career. Knight has had first-rate defensive ball clubs. When he coached at Army before coming to Indians, his ball...