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...this week. He also told The Crimson that the official announcement would come next week, although the Globe’s article stated that Amaker’s appointment would be announced as soon as today. Amaker was a stellar point guard under coach Mike Krzyzewski at Duke, winning the national defensive player of the year award as a senior in 1987, and later began his coaching career as an assistant under Krzyzewski.“Coaching-style wise, a person coming from his background would be an unbelievable person to learn from,” Pusar said...
Amaker was a point guard at Duke University under coach Mike Krzyzewski, playing on the team that lost in the NCAA championship game in 1986, the same season Amaker won the national Defensive Player of the Year award. He was an assistant coach under Kryzewski at Duke from 1988-97 before getting his first head coaching job at Seton Hall University. In four years in New Jersey he never failed to make the postseason, as the Pirates advanced to the National Invitational Tournament three times and reaching the NCAA Tournament Sweet...
...chicken-and-egg conundrum here. We all know which came first, and we also know which will have a lasting impact. Duke’s lacrosse program—the team, the games, and the sport itself—will still be around long after Mike Krzyzewski retains his rightful place as the most important person in Duke athletics. This case, I’m happy to say, will...
...were flown to China, then Korea, for tournament tune-ups, although only 12 would make the World Championship roster. "They flew me all the way out there, and I thought I had a big shot. It was frustrating." Firing a dart at Team U.S.A. and Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski, Arenas wrote on an nba.com blog, "I'll give up one NBA season to play against Duke." He swore to score 50 points against both the Phoenix Suns and the Portland Trail Blazers, whose head coaches, Mike D'Antoni and Nate McMillan, were Team U.S.A. assistants. He's halfway there...
...Luckily for Krzyzewski, he has two more years to reverse American fortunes - gold in Beijing will erase this sour memory and put to rest all these questions. But he has to change his mind-set. "For this sport, we shouldn't just win, we should set the standard," Krzyzewski told TIME before the tournament began. "And to be quite frank with you, the rest of the basketball world wants in some ways for us to do that...