Word: krzyzewski
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...Olympics meant. Plus, he got a fair amount of criticism for making that guarantee. Now, give him credit. Sure, the United States was pumped for these Olympics since the summer of '06, the year new U.S.A. basketball chief Jerry Colangelo and his choice as coach, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, gathered the core players of this team to start training for Beijing. They didn't need LeBronic hubris to help them. After they beat the world's top international teams by an average of 27.9 points per game in these Olympics, the U.S. probably would have won the gold regardless...
...with the score at 55-43 and give the U.S. some much needed breathing room. Team USA had led by just one at the end of the first quarter, and the quick silver Australian point guard Patrick Mills - "an NBA player for sure," said the admiring U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski afterwards - was giving them cause for concern, and ended up with 20 points...
...there is also so much that is unknown—whether the past can be ignored, whether present potential can be fulfilled, and whether in the future, things can be different.TALE OF TWO PASTSAmaker began his collegiate career as a player at Duke, under the tutelage of coach Mike Krzyzewski, starting all four years with the Blue Devils and earning national Defensive Player of the Year honors his senior season. Following a nine-year assistant coaching stint under Coach K, he moved on to Seton Hall and, in his years there, led the program to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen...
...With the help of standouts Drew A. Housman ’09 and Evan K. Harris ’09, Amaker, who played under Mike Krzyzewski at Duke and previously held head coaching positions at Seton Hall and Michigan, will set his sights on directing the Crimson to the top of the standings in a wide-open Ivy League next year...
...group of young, talented players, highlighted by rising junior standouts Drew Housman and Evan Harris, will be the key to his success. And Amaker hopes that the Crimson will respond, not cower, in the face of his vocal and combative style of coaching, which mirrors that of his mentor Krzyzewski...