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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The Rabbit Hunter by Frank DeFord: Revised

Original: "Such criticism doesn't necessarily affect Knight in the ways and to the extent that most people imagine. In a sense, he enjoys being misunderstood, so no one can get a fix on him. It's like the effect Indiana's good defense has on the coaches of its opponents. "The average coach wants his team to score points," Knight says. "It's his character, his machismo, whatever you want to call it, that's at stake. So if I make a coach concerned enough about my defense stopping his offense, then he'll forget about my offense.""

Revised: The criticism Knight endures doesn't seem to bother him the way it would someone else. In a way, he likes to be mysterious so no one can fully understand him. Indiana's defense is similar to Knight, both are puzzling and hard to guard. "The average coach wants his team to score points," Knight says. "It's his character, his machismo, whatever you want to call it, that's at stake. So if I make a coach concerned enough about my defense stopping his offense, then he'll forget about my offense."

Original: "Knight is forever putting people back on their heels, testing them, making them uncomfortable in some way. Stop them from scoring points, and they won't be prepared to stop you. Although it's fashionable to say Knight rules by intimidation, he actually rules more by derision. He abuses the people he comes into contact with, taking the license to treat them as he does his players."

Revised: Knight is a coach who will test and punish you in some way. The opposing team will be pushed to the breaking point, often putting them back on their heels, in order to get them off of their game plan. The ideology behind this is simple: if Knight's teams stops them from scoring, then they won't be able to stop you. He makes it uncomfortable to play against and speak with because of the abusing nature that both carry. Knight often treats opposing foes as if he they were a part of his own team; abusive.

Original: "The best thing that ever happened to Knight was that after high school—he's still the greatest star ever to come out of Orrville, Ohio—he didn't amount to a hill of beans as a player. Knight the failed hero has not only served as the challenge for Knight the coach, but also Knight the disappointed hero is the model for the Every player Knight coaches. That boy was limited, self-centered, frustrated, a pouter, then a bitcher, ultimately a back-biter against his coach, Fred Taylor, who once called Knight "the Brat from Orrville."

Revised: After Knight left high school the best that could have happened, did. He amounted to nothing in college, in terms of a basketball player. The failed player from Orville served as motivation for Knight to get into coaching, and his coaching philosophy. Knight, himself, is a perfect model of what he doesn't want from his players. As a player, he was a self-centered, egotistical, a pouter and a back-talker against his coach Fred Taylor. Taylor once called Knight "the brat from Orrville."

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