RIP Jerry Tarkanian

Reggie Theus _ i never know who is sarcastic and who isn't.

 

Heard on the radio that Vegas will dim the lights to honor Tark. Radio made it sound like that hasn't happened very often. They gave a brief list, including honoring JFK.

 

When is the 30 for 30 on Augmon throwing that game against Duke?

 

A beautiful scene in a damn near perfect movie.

 

One kind of ironic thing about Tark now, is that probably the vast majority of fans who followed college hoops from 1975-95 would consider him (along with Paul Westhead) the ultimate god of run-and-gun, fast-break, street-ball basketball -- but when he was at Long Beach State, he was actually known for playing a pack-it-in 2-3 zone and a mid-tempo control offense.

When he went to Vegas he felt he had to establish a flashy style to sell tickets in addition to simply winning games, so he adopted the fast-break philosophy.

Tark wrote a couple of coaching textbooks that came out, or were updated, around the period he made this wholesale change in style, so a huge section of the book covers brute-force pack-it-in zone defense and rebounding, and other sections go into great detail on the fast break, pushing the tempo, and the full-court man-to-man run-and-jump press. (This was before he became a big proponent of the 'amoeba' defense.)

 

According to AP, the list includes Elvis, Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Reagan as well.