Post by crazymike2021 on May 8, 2009 3:56:00 GMT -5
The Great hope for the Clippers
This off season started off weird for the Clippers. The GM Did something not many people seen coming by letting every player on the team walk besides Charlie Ward who will be the one player still on the team from last season. Mike Guinn Gm of the Clippers also fired the head coach. But really who didn't see the coach going after the season he had. Then adding to all the bad. The Clippers were looking like they would have the number one draft pick. But after the draft lottery the Clippers and GM Guinn was handed the 4th over all pick. So you may be asking what is going right for the Clippers and GM Guinn. After trade talks fall apart with the Bucks. The GM and the team knew it would have to be this year to trun it around seeing there was no way they were getting there 1996 First round pick back. But then thing started to trun for the good for the Clippers as then got the call from the man at the top of there list to replace there old head coach. Who was on the phone? No other then Head Coach of Indiana, Bob Knight telling Mike Guinn it was time for him to see what he could in UOSLR. After getting the Head Coach they wanted thing jsut got better on Draft Day. After Glenn Robinson fall to the Cippers at 4th over all. The same man that GM Guinn had rank 2nd over all in this year draft just right after Rasheed Wallace. Things are just looking more and more up for the Clippers. They got a Head Coach and the next Star on UOSLR in Glenn Robinson. Looks like Bob Knight will be coaching the guy his old team had to find a way to stop at Purdue. Another good thing for the Clippers is the $24,744,640 in cap room they have this off season to go after some big name players. The thing now is getting them to come to LA and play for the Clippers.
Going more in to the new Head Coach of the Clippers Bob Knight. Bob Knight started his coaching career at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Ohio for one year. Knight then enlisted in the U.S. Army and accepted an assistant coaching position at Army in 1963, where, two years later, he was named the head coach at the relatively young age of 24. In six seasons at West Point, Knight won 102 games, with his first as a head coach coming against Worcester Polytechnic Institute. One of his players was Hall of Fame and current Duke Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski. Knight was noticed as a rising star, and when Indiana University was seeking a new coach in 1971, they turned to Knight. Educated in military history, Knight was given the nickname "The General" by former University of Detroit and Detroit Pistons coach-turned-broadcaster Dick Vitale. In 1976, the Hoosiers were undefeated at 32–0 and won the championship, beating Michigan 86–68 in the title game. Immediately after the game, Knight lamented that "it should have been two." No Division I men's team has had an undefeated season including a championship since, although UNLV went undefeated in the regular season before losing in the semifinals of the 1991 NCAA tournament. Knight's Hoosiers also won championships in 1981, with future NBA and Hall of Fame point guard Isiah Thomas, beating North Carolina 63–50; and in 1987 with guard Steve Alford, beating Syracuse 74–73 on a last-second shot by Keith Smart. Indiana won the 1979 NIT championship, and Knight led the U.S. national team to a gold medal in the Olympic Games as coach of the Michael Jordan-led 1984 team. Knight is the only coach to win the NCAA, the NIT, the Olympic Gold and the Pan-Am Gold. In 1991, Knight was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in his second year of eligibility. After he wasn't elected in his first year of eligibility, Knight told the committee to take his name off the list, but they denied his request. Bob knight has three NCAA Champions and is hoping to add a UOSLR title to that.
Robinson attended Gary Roosevelt High School, located in Gary, Indiana, where he started playing organized basketball during the 8th grade. During his Senior season, he led his school to an Indiana state basketball championship and won the 1991 Indiana "Mr. Basketball" award. He was also a McDonald's All-American selection.After high school, Glenn Robinson attended Purdue University to play under head coach Gene Keady and his recruiter/assistant coach Frank Kendrick. Due to struggles with NCAA eligibility courtesy of Proposition 48 which requires minimum academic standards, he had to redshirt for his freshmen season. He worked as a welder during the summers while at Purdue. Eligible for his sophomore season, Glenn led the Boilermakers with 24.1 points and 9.4 rebounds a game in his first season as a Boiler. He led them to an 18–10 record on the season and guided them to an NCAA appearance. He received First Team All-Big Ten and Second Team All-American honors.
In his junior season, Glenn built upon his previous season's averages with 30.3 points and 11.2 rebounds a game, leading the Big Ten Conference in both categories. Along with teammate Cuonzo Martin, he lead the Boilermakers to a Big Ten Conference Title and an Elite Eight appearance, finishing the season with a 29–5 record. Leading the nation in scoring and becoming the conference's all-time single season points leader with 1,030 points, Robinson was unanimously selected as the Big Ten Conference Player of the Year. He also unanimously received the John R. Wooden Award and Naismith Award, the first national player of the year-honored Boilermaker since John Wooden himself did it in 1932 (who also wore the jersey #13). Robinson also was the recipient for the USBWA College Player of the Year. He left Purdue, becoming the only Boilermaker to have more than 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 100 steals, 100 assists and 50 blocked shots in a career during his two seasons at Purdue, along with a school weightlifting record with a 309-pound clean-and-jerk.
