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He is Georgetown's head coach now. In other words, he has Thompson's job in Thompson's building, where Thompson still keeps an office. The man who first called Ewing and told him he needed to pursue this opening? John Thompson Jr., right after his son, John Thompson III, was fired by the very school his old man put on the basketball map.
It was an awkward series of events, but it made sense, too, since Big John has always looked after Bigger Patrick. Thompson started protecting Ewing in 1981, when the center from Cambridge, Massachusetts, ended the mother of all high school recruiting wars in an announcement at a Boston restaurant owned by Thompson's former Celtics teammate Satch Sanders. The coach had made quite an impression in his visit with the Ewing family. "He spoke extremely well; he carried himself with class," Ewing recalls. "And as a young black man, he was somebody I could be like." The recruit was most struck by Thompson's way with words. "I was mesmerized."
Ewing wanted Thompson to keep doing the talking for him at Georgetown, where "Hoya paranoia" was born of the restricted access to the phenom. "A lot of times," Ewing recalls, "he took the hit, especially for me, if I didn't speak. ... I didn't like speaking to the media. Growing up in Boston, I learned from a young age that the media builds you up, and at a certain point they start chopping you down."
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11-01-2017, 09:27 AM #1
Patrick Ewing Trying to Bring Georgetown Back to Prominence
"He's a little bit ball-dominant, he needs to have the ball in his hands, and he's not a good shooter." Ball-dominant … isn't that a nice way of calling someone a ball hog? Where is my Jay Bilas Thesaurus?
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11-01-2017, 09:31 AM #2
I will be surprised if he turns into being a good hire.
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11-01-2017, 09:39 AM #3
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11-01-2017, 01:21 PM #4
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02-04-2018, 09:17 AM #5
Kind of late to post, but I just ran across this and thought it was interesting...
"Some of our guys thought defense was a town in Chile. Other guys thought defense was something you put up around d-house to keep out d-dog and d-cat." Pete Gillen
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02-04-2018, 12:00 PM #7
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02-04-2018, 12:51 PM #8
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I thought Ewing looked pretty good. His team seems pretty disciplined and well coached. They have a plan and they follow it. I am pretty confident in Ewing, particularly compared to JTIII.
2011-2012. KICK DOWN THE FUKING DOOR!
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