Yes, even before Jordan dribbled a ball in an NBA game! To put his basketball reputation on the line saying such a thing was bold and courageous, but turned out to be absolutely true. Simply incredible foresight. Goes to show how much knowledge and mastery of the game he had.
Coach Knight was supposedly talking to the Trailblazers about potential prospects for the 84 Draft after the Olympics. He was selling MJ as the best player he had ever seen and Portland was saying that they had a 2 guard in Drexler already and that they needed a center. Knight's response.... "Well play him at fucking center then"
Knight almost came to tears when he mentioned seeing the smiles on the players faces right before the video ends. Gotta love seeing that soft spot in such a tough guy.
True story. Will try to keep it short. Have a free day off while on a business trip to Washington state. Im from Ohio. Always wanted to fly fish. Never had. Im totally green. Drive south one hour from Seattle to a random small river. Rent my stuff from a fly fishing shop. Owner makes a comment about my Buckeye ballcap and how far I am from home. Head to the river ( 200 yards away) . Pick my spot . Fall down the 50 foot embankment to waters edge. See one human on the whole river. He is eyeballing me like im a dunce. I realize I am a dunce too. My game is a disaster. In 5-10 minutes im tangled. Hate fly fishing i think. The lone human approaches looking kinda pissed. I think i made him pissed. He is now to me. Im silent. He says and I quote , lose the hat and I will give you some pointers. My mind is firing 1000 mph. Thats coach Knight! I think thats coach fucking Knight. ( Had no idea he was passionate about fly fishing) . Long story short. Nicest guy EVER. Spent an hour on and off helping me get it right. He departed shirtly thereafter and from the top of the 50 bank told me to be careful not to fall up tge bank too. On my children......true story. Cant remember yhe year but somewhere around 1995 or so. Godspeed coach. Hope your crushing them in heaven.
There used to be a great fishing show on TV back decades ago called "Fishin Hole with Jerry McKinnis". Jerry and Bob Knight were close friends and he appeared in a couple different episode. It was apparent in those shows how much Bobby really loved to fish. Last time a NCAA men's basketball team went undefeated and won the tournament was the University of Indiana in 1976, coached by the General Robert Montgomery Knight.
Would been shorter if you left out that it was : a long story, a true story , that you were on a trip , you’d try to keep it short , trying to remember the year , repeating his name twice, and a few other superfluous bits …. Other than that it was perfect !
Coach Knight would have never told You to lose the Hat, He Loved his Alma mater "The Ohio State University ",He Won the 1960 NCAA Championship with his Buckeye Team!!!, So, I Personally don't believe that part of Your Story, because Coach wouldn't have told You to take off Your Ohio State Hat, because He Loved The Ohio State University!!!!!
@@rgarrison1819believe the story. Coach Knight loved Indiana and did not like Ohio State anymore from a competition standpoint. He's gonna pine for Indiana no matter what while he was still coaching there.
@@Black_Phillip_Goat Wrong on all three. LeBron won two rings under Spoelstra, who is a future HOFer, and Hakeem and Charles both played under Rudy T, who was inducted in 2021.
Called the meanest, toughest, most irascible coach in all of sports and the most important thing for him in this interview was taking note of those kids smiles in the gold medal ceremony.
@@tmk9646 he actually gave a damn about each and everyone of his players, and expected them to thrive in life. Isn't that more important than winning?
Went to multiple IU camps while in high school. He would stop games to teach like it was practice. One of the things I picked up was that Bob coached the way he did because he loved the game and wanted as many players as possible to be successful and to insure the longevity of the game. Mixed in with some crazy. R.I.P. coach
I watched him coach his last college game at Loyd Noble against Oklahoma close to his bench and i had more fun talking trash to him the whole time and I love the guy.
LOVE this story! I was fortunate to see that team play an exhibition game here, in Indianapolis, at the (then) Hoosier Dome. One of the greatest sports experiences of my life, seeing all of those players together, coached by Knight!
I worked at Fireside Steakhouse in Indianapolis in my teens and got to feed Coach many times but it was always on a very distant regard; flash forward to 2019 and I am the head chef at a small diner in Spencer, Indiana when we were informed ahead that Coach was coming in for lunch. I was hyped up and frantically getting my best items ready for him to try....he ordered pancakes!!! God bless you Coach for all you did for Indiana and for the men you molded out of basketball players....RWL LEGEND.
I‘m not an expert on basketball and it‘s special rules. But I know how to play a game the right way. I think that Bob Knight is an expert. He knows how to do it the right way.
If he was that much of tyrant I doubt any player would have the audacity to talk back to him. Ye he was a bit crazy at times and could have been nicer but he was a great coach that cared. Some people are too soft an they shouldn't be involved in sport
Great clip. You know when Knight talks about this day his volume in the locker room was on max and the profanity peeled paint off the walls. There is another Jordan story he tells that is excellent too. MJ's confidence plus ability and the reliability to deliver: Supernatural.
I had a baseball coach like BK and we hated that SOB. We went 13-0. He cried at our end of the year banquet and we thought, what a puss. Thanks for the memories coach! Love ya
Your reasoning is why such antiquated methods still exist. Just because you got great results doesn't mean that this type of coaching works. Your coach might have forced you to do the correct drills. You need a control group to know if it was worked. The truth is this type of coaching is antiquated. Research has shown you could accomplish a lot more by utilizing on both positive and negative reinforcement. Second, Americans' fascination with sports and athletics is backward. It's glorifying the pursuit of athletics over intelligence.
@@aaronbuster5665 Their baseball coach could have motivated them by using positive motivation with the same results. He's using one data point to make a generalization. There is a reason why scientists do not do this.
Reading yalls experiences with coach knight is fkn awesome. I remember my dad loved him. Before i was about to try out for middle school basketball in 6th grade he borrowed a coach knight basketball camp VHS from a work buddy and we watched the different drills and would go out to the hoop in the driveway and practice. My dad said "watch and listen to this guy, he knows what hes talking about". Id have to say i credit bob knight and my dad for helping me make the team. He made the game simple for developing young players in those videos.
Probably the most feared coach as to.face as a wolverine lot of respect for someone who coached the last undefeated national champion . He beat us 3 times that year . We dont see coaches like that anymore
Bob Knight was the greatest basketball teacher who ever lived. During his time, he revolutionized the game, with greater emphasis on defense and the passing game. The GOAT!
Dafuq are you talking about?? If anything he’s OVER appreciated! He’s practically worshipped! Just look at these comments! And all despite the fact that he was an abusive petulant little baby and little else
I think he already realized here how important life is. How important his legacy is. He was real bad to Jeremy S. In that one interview. The head butting incident. All the bad things. He had one thing. His passion for kids here showed tremendously. If didn't love kids, he would have never went on to be a coach. He showed his true heart here. It's not for the game of basketball, but his passion for kids to be the best they can at the game they love. Basketball.
If I remember correctly Knight was going to give his pre-game speech before the gold medal game. He found a note from Jordan that said, "Coach, don't worry, we've put up with too much shit to lose now" After that he skipped the speech lol
During an interview with a local Indiana reporter shortly before he died, when asked the question: "Who's better: LeBron or Jordan?" Knight replied, "Jordan, and it's not even close."
It would last. He let go of Charles Barkley for the 84 Olympics because Barkley tried to Undermine him too early. You have to earn a coaches praise first then undermine him. Then he doesn't mind because you will do whatever he says then you can say whatever you want after.
Yep If only there had been a talented enough player at Indiana (surefire #1 pick, slap on the wrist if he ever transgressed) with nothing to lose, he would have gotten it.
@@Zenigundamummmmm I think Isaiah Thomas was definitely more talented than Spreewell and better OBVIOUSLY. He fell way down to the second overall pick but found his way to 2 Championships and the Hall of Fame.
@@Zenigundam Bobby abused the end of bench players but was only a "lovable grump" to the really good players. He was a "kiss up, punch down" kind of guy.
yeah, but it wasn't just coaching the game, by all accounts he ran a clean program without a hint of scandal other than his awful temper and immature lack of self discipline@@zachansen8293
if we had coaches like him in the nba, the game and the ratings wouldnt have gone into the trash. id like to see somebody shoot 3s from the logo or not play defense
Back in the day - most all coaches were like Knight. My junior high coaches were maybe worse ha... He's like Lombardi - he believes his God given duty, and RIGHT, is to do whatever is necessary to get the absolute best from his players - no exception.
Wait! Coach Knight is still alive....and we don't hear much from him...??!! The man is a wlaking Library of Congress size encyclopedia of basketball....he should be on all podcasts out there...!!
People been saying "when men were men" for centuries now. Lmao. Your dad thinks your gen is a bitch. My dad thinks I'm a bitch. I'll think my son is a bitch. It's a cycle, but it's meaningless.
men are still men, we have just evolved at some point long along someone also complained “back in out grandfathers day they lived in caves, like real men, we should never left the cave”, those kind of people can only live in a glorified past because don’t have the imagination or courage to be better than
Bobby Knight coached the 1984 men's Olympic basketball team that won the gold medal ! He called Michael Jordan the best player he had ever seen or coached. Knight was a prophet!
Tyrant? Do you know what that means? A hall of fame coach that demanded excellence, and kids that don’t want to listen to brilliance and back talk. What did the guy actually do, that as an adult you haven’t thought about ? Don’t worry I will wait. Weak minded people create weak people. Wish there was more Bobby knights in this world. We as a society need this discipline. We are out of control.
@@jamesdavis8731 1998 Game 6 Bulls vs Jazz 22.3 Rating. 2022 Game 6 Warriors vs Celtics 4.3 Rating. Are you arguing that overall viewership is not down tremendously?
This was during a time when the USA sent the best college kids to compete. We started sending our pros after the college kids could no longer match up with the players around the world who were actually professionals themselves. Nobody talks about this when they discuss the Olympics. Several Dream Team players were on this Olympic team during their final year of college. Jordan, Ewing, Chris Mullen, Sir Charles.
After the 1984 Olympics, Wayman Tisdale from Oklahoma said, "I'm going to hug every mean person in Oklahoma." Apparently, Coach Knight's meanness was so outlandish that regular mean people weren't so bad to Tisdale.
There’s an awful lot of safespacer’s here in the comment section. 😂 Bobby was just a different era. If you didn’t like his style then stick to to your participation trophy ideologies where you belong
It is so weird to see people twist Knight's childish tantrums over a game into manliness, and think that expecting him to not behave like a drunken man-baby is being a "safespacer"
I went to a bball workshop where he spoke in 1970. 2:39 He went to the stage, saw that there were women in the audience and immediately told a very dirty joke. He followed it with more dirty jokes, each worse than the previous one until all the women left the room. He then said that he was now ready to start his lecture. Apparently for you Knight fans, any behavior is okay as long as you win games.
Were you able to go on and live a normal life after hearing these dirty jokes? The courage it must have taken to share this story is a real inspiration. Stunning and brave! I am personally going to write a letter to the war department insisting that you receive a purple heart for your sacrifice! Thank you for your service! I hope you sleep nightmare free knowing that scoundrel is now deceased!
@@DoctorJ42 You missed the point junior. His behavior was misogynistic and sexist and succeeded in its purpose. Apparently you think that's great. Good for you.
Knight was definitely a man of a time long long ago when you could get away with being a tyrant as long as you won games and championships. Nowadays, he would've had a very short career.
Only bad point is we sent professional basket ball player to the Olympics to win Gold for amateur athletes .. they took Jim Thorpe’s Gold medals medal away because he play pro baseball ..
