Don’t Want to Be Like Mike (Krzyzewski)

Andy Katz knows that it’s not easy being a Blue Devil head coach. He wrote a brilliant article at ESPN about the hard summer that Coach K (Mike Krzyzewski) is having. Well, I imagine that it could be worse. His team should get to the NCAA Tournament again, and they just landed a good recruit at the tail end of the recruiting season. But he is a very busy man. His coaching staff has been gutted and re-filled with new guys. Some of his best players from last year have either graduated or transferred, and he’s got to worry about coaching the next Dream Team, Team USA in the Olympics.

To me, the worst part of Coach K’s summer has to be the Olympics. The men’s basketball team is a huge laughing stock. While the US used to dominate, they have been schooled in international competition of late, and the rest of the world is only getting better. Still, the demand for excellence is there, but the US faces big hurdles if they ever want to do well. Beijjing should be a real challenge.

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