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They don't slap their palms on the floor in the NBA. (If Shaq gets any thicker this offseason, he might not be able to see the floor beneath his feet, much less bend over and slap it.)
--Pat Forde, espn.com - on why Coach K should not go to the Lakers
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Truthaboutduke.com --> Encyclopedia!
William Avery -
Avery had couple good seasons at Duke and left early for the NBA. This was against Coach K's wishes.
Apparently, it wasn't a very good 'split'. This is what Avery's mother said about Coach K in in an article. (scroll)
"Coach K is selfish," said Simonton, WILLIAM AVERY's mother. "He wants what's best for him. He says it's for the players. It's not."
There was a famous Curry Kirkpatrick article about K cursing William's mother (if you have a copy of this please submit it. Here is an article from a local Georgia newspaper on Avery's departure:
The early focus of the story, written by former Sports Illustrated writer Curry Kirkpatrick, is that Blue Devil basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski had a big disagreement with Avery and his mother, Terri Simonton, in April before Avery announced he was leaving.
Reportedly, Krzyzewski used an expletive to tell Simonton that her son was going to mess up his program. She said Krzyzewski was 'rude, personal.'
'Coach K is selfish,' Simonton told ESPN The Magazine. 'He talks about a so-called close Duke family. But he just wants to protect his program. He lied to us about where William would go in the draft. Late in the first round? Maybe even second round? Come on. Even I could pick up the papers and read he was going earlier than that.'
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Dahntay Jones -
Transfer from Rutgers. A good player, but unfortunately will be remembered most for his on court antics. See Larry Shyatt incident and the following excerpt from this article:
Without Jones, Duke would have felt its way along this season. With him, the team gained swagger.
Sometimes, too much of it. Krzyzewski blasted Jones for a flashy behind-the-back pass on a fast break against Florida State. After a spectacular dunk against Virginia, Jones fell to the floor and did pushups in front of a TV camera. Wake Forest freshman guard Justin Gray broke his jaw hitting a Jones' screen. Jones swiped North Carolina freshman point guard Raymond Felton across the face on a rebound, leaving him on face-down on the floor in anguish and setting up a chest-bumping altercation between Carolina coach Matt Doherty and Duke assistant Chris Collins.
It makes one wonder - with players such as Dahntay Jones, how come Duke still has the 'clean' reputation mentioned in this article:
Duke is perceived as arrogant. But the reality is: Coach K doesn't let the Devils be cocky, talk trash or strut on the court. They are a throwback to the time when being humble still mattered in America.
Here's Dahntay's website on BlackPlanet
update - Dahntay is a thug in the NBA too:
As Shawn Marion attempted a layup, Memphis' Dahntay Jones pushed him to the ground. An angry Marion landed hard and had to be restrained from going after Jones by teammate Steven Hunter.
Jones, who was called for a flagrant foul, later apologized to Marion, but the Suns were still steaming about the hit after the game.
'It was a dirty foul,' Hunter said. 'He (Marion) was hot, but I wasn't going to let him do anything stupid.'
Suns coach Mike D'Antoni, hearing fans heckling him, turned around and shouted, 'That's not right. That's not basketball.'
No one was angrier than Quentin Richardson, who said he wanted to '(expletive deleted) Jones up.'
'If it had been in the regular season, he would have been in the first row with me on top of him,' Richardson said. 'But we had better things to do than get into it.'
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