December 31, 2007
Sam Smith and Scottie Pippin's Collective Hallucination
From the Chicago Tribune's NBA gadfly:
"So why not Scottie Pippen as the next coach of the Bulls? "What's my disadvantage?" Pippen asked. "No NBA coaching experience? [Scott] Skiles' record with the Bulls wasn't that great. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to do what you've done your whole life. I've played basketball, run teams and won. They didn't put me at point guard because I could dribble good. They put me there because I could run a team. I wasn't the best dribbler, the best shooter. I wasn't a point guard. But I knew how to run a team."
And quit, on occasion, when it mattered. Yeah, the quitting thing stands out.
I'd say people's memories of the quitting are a disadvantage.
