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Days of knight : how the general changed my life / Kirk Haston.
Van Pelt Library GV884.H266 A3 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haston, Kirk, 1979-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haston, Kirk, 1979-.
- Haston, Kirk.
- Knight, Bobby.
- Indiana University, Bloomington--Basketball.
- Indiana University, Bloomington.
- Basketball players--United States--Biography.
- Basketball players.
- Basketball.
- United States.
- Basketball coaches--United States--Biography.
- Basketball coaches.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- What happens when a 6' 9" kid from Lobelville, Tennessee is recruited by legendary basketball coach Bob Knight? Kirk Haston's life was changed forever with just a two-minute phone call, and his book abounds with previously unknown Knight stories, anecdotes, and choice quotes, that will gain fans an inside look at the notoriously private man and his no-nonsense coaching style. Which past Hoosier basketball greats returned to talk to and practice with current teams? How did Knight mentally challenge his players in practices? How did the players feel when Knight was fired? In this touching and humorous book, Haston shares these answers and more, including his own Hoosier highs-shooting a famous three-point winning shot against number-one-ranked Michigan State-and lows-losing his mom in a heartbreaking tornado accident. Days of Knight is a book every die-hard IU basketball fan will treasure. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- If the game doesn't fit...then you didn't commit
- Tennessee Knight game
- The day after Knight
- Welcome to B-town greenhorn
- A Hall of Fame kind of day
- Talking about practice
- Hoosier family counseling
- This is...Assembly Hall
- Close to greatness & close to great failures
- Let the games begin
- Phone call
- An intolerable policy?
- Friendship tolerance
- Number 1 comes to town
- Day camp and Knight chats
- Image is something, but not everything.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Haston, Kirk, 1979- Days of knight
- ISBN:
- 9780253022271
- 0253022274
- OCLC:
- 930539104
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