Bob Knight on Coaching Michael Jordan in the Olympics | Undeniable with Joe Buck
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- čas přidán 19. 02. 2024
- Bob Knight sits down with Joe Buck to talk about coaching THE GREATEST basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan.
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Bobby Knight’s assessment on Jordan as the best basketball player he’s ever seen was the best observation in the history of sports.
Yes, even before Jordan dribbled a ball in an NBA game! To put his basketball reputation on the line saying such a thing was bold and courageous, but turned out to be absolutely true. Simply incredible foresight. Goes to show how much knowledge and mastery of the game he had.
Knight almost came to tears when he mentioned seeing the smiles on the players faces right before the video ends. Gotta love seeing that soft spot in such a tough guy.
Coach Knight was supposedly talking to the Trailblazers about potential prospects for the 84 Draft after the Olympics. He was selling MJ as the best player he had ever seen and Portland was saying that they had a 2 guard in Drexler already and that they needed a center. Knight's response.... "Well play him at fucking center then"
So Blazers picked Sam Bowie instead, and later watched MJ destroy them in the 92 finals, single handedly!!
I understand Portland had Clyde. Bowie had physical issues…why not take Melvin Turpin? Until he ate himself out of the league he was productive
They did the same sort of thing when they took Oden over Durant.
hahahahaha🤣
BOB KNIGHT IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL STREET BALL COACH.
Rest in peace COACH! 🙏🏼
You can tell he had a real affection for MJ (and the others as well).
True story. Will try to keep it short. Have a free day off while on a business trip to Washington state. Im from Ohio. Always wanted to fly fish. Never had. Im totally green. Drive south one hour from Seattle to a random small river. Rent my stuff from a fly fishing shop. Owner makes a comment about my Buckeye ballcap and how far I am from home. Head to the river ( 200 yards away) . Pick my spot . Fall down the 50 foot embankment to waters edge. See one human on the whole river. He is eyeballing me like im a dunce. I realize I am a dunce too. My game is a disaster. In 5-10 minutes im tangled. Hate fly fishing i think. The lone human approaches looking kinda pissed. I think i made him pissed. He is now to me. Im silent. He says and I quote , lose the hat and I will give you some pointers. My mind is firing 1000 mph. Thats coach Knight! I think thats coach fucking Knight. ( Had no idea he was passionate about fly fishing) . Long story short. Nicest guy EVER. Spent an hour on and off helping me get it right. He departed shirtly thereafter and from the top of the 50 bank told me to be careful not to fall up tge bank too. On my children......true story. Cant remember yhe year but somewhere around 1995 or so. Godspeed coach. Hope your crushing them in heaven.
There used to be a great fishing show on TV back decades ago called "Fishin Hole with Jerry McKinnis". Jerry and Bob Knight were close friends and he appeared in a couple different episode. It was apparent in those shows how much Bobby really loved to fish. Last time a NCAA men's basketball team went undefeated and won the tournament was the University of Indiana in 1976, coached by the General Robert Montgomery Knight.
Hell of a story, and just goes to show you how fascinating life can be sometimes. You just never know what and where life will bring you.
Would been shorter if you left out that it was : a long story, a true story , that you were on a trip , you’d try to keep it short , trying to remember the year , repeating his name twice, and a few other superfluous bits …. Other than that it was perfect !
Coach Knight would have never told You to lose the Hat, He Loved his Alma mater "The Ohio State University ",He Won the 1960 NCAA Championship with his Buckeye Team!!!, So, I Personally don't believe that part of Your Story, because Coach wouldn't have told You to take off Your Ohio State Hat, because He Loved The Ohio State University!!!!!
@@rgarrison1819believe the story. Coach Knight loved Indiana and did not like Ohio State anymore from a competition standpoint. He's gonna pine for Indiana no matter what while he was still coaching there.
That team was sick!! They had hall of famers coming off the bench 😮😮😮😮
Hall of famers don’t become hall of famers without great coaches alongside them. Every great player had a great coach with them.
@@tustariLebron has never played for a Hall of Fame coach. Neither did Hakeem or Charles.
@@_troublesome_ Wrong on all three. LeBron won two rings under Spoelstra, who is a future HOFer, and Hakeem and Charles both played under Rudy T, who was inducted in 2021.
@@aricohen283David Blatt might be also someday with his success on his non-NBA coaching stints
That was pretty close to a dream team with College players.....pretty much unbeatable at that time
Called the meanest, toughest, most irascible coach in all of sports and the most important thing for him in this interview was taking note of those kids smiles in the gold medal ceremony.
"Coach must win" was the most important
@@tmk9646 he actually gave a damn about each and everyone of his players, and expected them to thrive in life. Isn't that more important than winning?
@@fredwright9755 You can tell from the physical and metal abuse, right?
@@fredwright9755 he choked a player tard
Tough Love. A phrase no longer understood.
Went to multiple IU camps while in high school. He would stop games to teach like it was practice. One of the things I picked up was that Bob coached the way he did because he loved the game and wanted as many players as possible to be successful and to insure the longevity of the game. Mixed in with some crazy. R.I.P. coach
Knight has told different versions of his conversation with Jordan. "Do you mind setting them a little slower so I can see them"? Was my favorite.
I came to comment the same thing. I don't know which version is true, but I like the version of setting slower screens, too.
I remember he said he said that as a response to Jordan’s comment.
That Knight might tell the same story in different ways doesn't surprise me. He lied his entire life.
@@billkammerzell9082 How long did you know Knight?
@@MikeJones-rk1unthey’re internet friends.
Bobby Knight was a one of a kind.
I watched him coach his last college game at Loyd Noble against Oklahoma close to his bench and i had more fun talking trash to him the whole time and I love the guy.
I worked court security for UT when he was coaching at TT. He walked past me and I couldn't believe how large of a human he was.
LOVE this story! I was fortunate to see that team play an exhibition game here, in Indianapolis, at the (then) Hoosier Dome. One of the greatest sports experiences of my life, seeing all of those players together, coached by Knight!
I worked at Fireside Steakhouse in Indianapolis in my teens and got to feed Coach many times but it was always on a very distant regard; flash forward to 2019 and I am the head chef at a small diner in Spencer, Indiana when we were informed ahead that Coach was coming in for lunch. I was hyped up and frantically getting my best items ready for him to try....he ordered pancakes!!!
God bless you Coach for all you did for Indiana and for the men you molded out of basketball players....RWL LEGEND.
Pancakes, spaghetti, and hamburgers with no buns was always his team's pregame meal.
Sounds like you didn’t make much out of yourself since
@@talkingmoney4499 you're "talking" money while men like me make that shit....go sit at the children's table.
@@mickmuffin4345 I was playing with you but you seemed bragadocious and added unnecessary details
@@mickmuffin4345 You'll never meet a hater doing better than you. Awesome story💯
I‘m not an expert on basketball and it‘s special rules. But I know how to play a game the right way. I think that Bob Knight is an expert. He knows how to do it the right way.
Great clip. You know when Knight talks about this day his volume in the locker room was on max and the profanity peeled paint off the walls. There is another Jordan story he tells that is excellent too. MJ's confidence plus ability and the reliability to deliver: Supernatural.
Solid interviewer.
Good job.
neatest thing was the smile, because they likely didn't smile during the two months under his coaching until that point!
If he was that much of tyrant I doubt any player would have the audacity to talk back to him. Ye he was a bit crazy at times and could have been nicer but he was a great coach that cared. Some people are too soft an they shouldn't be involved in sport
@@joshchambers5163 he was miserable, even joyless guy, toughness has nothing to do with it.
@@vs-yy5cxi keep seeing pussy comments like yours. Take your daddy issues elsewhere
Very nice. Thanks.
… Truly!
The Winning Pride with Attitude! 🇺🇸🗽
My dads best friend was a coach. Won state titles. I asked him how to come back when down a lot. He said, score when the clock is not moving.
That was a proud time for the United States. I miss those days.
No one cares boomer
So do I
I had a baseball coach like BK and we hated that SOB. We went 13-0. He cried at our end of the year banquet and we thought, what a puss. Thanks for the memories coach! Love ya
Your reasoning is why such antiquated methods still exist. Just because you got great results doesn't mean that this type of coaching works. Your coach might have forced you to do the correct drills. You need a control group to know if it was worked.
The truth is this type of coaching is antiquated. Research has shown you could accomplish a lot more by utilizing on both positive and negative reinforcement. Second, Americans' fascination with sports and athletics is backward. It's glorifying the pursuit of athletics over intelligence.
@@showwhite7320did you read they went undefeated?
@@aaronbuster5665 Their baseball coach could have motivated them by using positive motivation with the same results. He's using one data point to make a generalization. There is a reason why scientists do not do this.
One data point? I'd like to see you throw a baseball.@@showwhite7320
@@showwhite7320Are you a woman?
Reading yalls experiences with coach knight is fkn awesome. I remember my dad loved him. Before i was about to try out for middle school basketball in 6th grade he borrowed a coach knight basketball camp VHS from a work buddy and we watched the different drills and would go out to the hoop in the driveway and practice. My dad said "watch and listen to this guy, he knows what hes talking about". Id have to say i credit bob knight and my dad for helping me make the team. He made the game simple for developing young players in those videos.
Bobby Knight made sure his kids graduated. More than we can say for coaches in modern era!
Great coach, revolutionary, and his style of play was passed on to Coach K… a lot of wins in that pedigree.
There is a lot of Knight DNA throughout basketball; he would be ashamed of modern ball though.
Coach Kreep. The rat family.
I love the way he refers to those men as kids, that's a coach.
I’ve always admired coach Knight.
He was an asshole just like his protege Mike "Krychefski"
I always never admired him.
@@richreicher2679, real talk
Me neither.
Probably the most feared coach as to.face as a wolverine lot of respect for someone who coached the last undefeated national champion . He beat us 3 times that year . We dont see coaches like that anymore
That was when there was a real nba
My favorite Bob Knight moment was his reaction to the reporter who asked him about his "game face".
Bobby Knight is under appreciated
Dafuq are you talking about?? If anything he’s OVER appreciated! He’s practically worshipped! Just look at these comments! And all despite the fact that he was an abusive petulant little baby and little else
I totally agree.
The General 💪
Sack of shit is the better term
@@1983jblackhidden comment
R.I.P. coach. You deserve it.
I loved Bob
Bob Knight was the greatest basketball teacher who ever lived. During his time, he revolutionized the game, with greater emphasis on defense and the passing game.
The GOAT!
Please take us back to the 80s 90s and early 2000s 😢❤😊
You want one decade too far. and I might also go only to about the mid 90s.
@@paineintheass233 2006 was the end
Bobby Knight needed a Latrell Sprewell moment.
Yep
If only there had been a talented enough player at Indiana (surefire #1 pick, slap on the wrist if he ever transgressed) with nothing to lose, he would have gotten it.
@@Zenigundamummmmm I think Isaiah Thomas was definitely more talented than Spreewell and better OBVIOUSLY. He fell way down to the second overall pick but found his way to 2 Championships and the Hall of Fame.
@@tos5536yes Isiah was way more talented then sprewell
@@Zenigundam Bobby abused the end of bench players but was only a "lovable grump" to the really good players. He was a "kiss up, punch down" kind of guy.
I would like to know what two players was ok with Knight calling their mom a Bitch. I know it was not Sprewell.
Way to go coach!!!😊😊😊
He Sounds like Bob Odenkirk
Bob Ortegel
Sounds like Bod Offenheimmer to me!!
Holy crap I hear it 😂
lol I can’t unhear it now
I think he already realized here how important life is. How important his legacy is. He was real bad to Jeremy S. In that one interview. The head butting incident. All the bad things. He had one thing. His passion for kids here showed tremendously. If didn't love kids, he would have never went on to be a coach. He showed his true heart here. It's not for the game of basketball, but his passion for kids to be the best they can at the game they love. Basketball.
Coach was fiery, but he loved those kids he coached. He had his way of doing things and it must be done his way.
Bob rules.
Wish we had some Bobby Knights coaching kids today.
Great story.
The General
if we had coaches like him in the nba, the game and the ratings wouldnt have gone into the trash. id like to see somebody shoot 3s from the logo or not play defense
It’s worth seeking out his original telling of this story 😂🤣
he was great, as long as he was in control
“Bobby Knight”!!
-Ron Swanson
Wait! Coach Knight is still alive....and we don't hear much from him...??!! The man is a wlaking Library of Congress size encyclopedia of basketball....he should be on all podcasts out there...!!
it's quite possible that a man can have extremely admirable qualities and some not so much--------only fair to acknowledge both
He was good at coaching a sport and bad at essentially everything else.
yeah, but it wasn't just coaching the game, by all accounts he ran a clean program without a hint of scandal other than his awful temper and immature lack of self discipline@@zachansen8293
that's every man ever. you can learn things even from the worst of people.
Exactly
It's almost like he was, gasp, a human being.
One of the greatest coaches ever. Now with the EGOs these days, his style won’t last. And we would never have an NCAA team go 32-0 and undefeated.
It would last. He let go of Charles Barkley for the 84 Olympics because Barkley tried to Undermine him too early. You have to earn a coaches praise first then undermine him. Then he doesn't mind because you will do whatever he says then you can say whatever you want after.
This is exactly what people what need to pick up on “the coach can never loose”
When men were men…sometimes over the top but a winner at heart and he pushed young men to be their best…
A man is a man because he throws chairs and is abusive to young people? LOL
People been saying "when men were men" for centuries now. Lmao. Your dad thinks your gen is a bitch. My dad thinks I'm a bitch. I'll think my son is a bitch. It's a cycle, but it's meaningless.
men are still men, we have just evolved
at some point long along someone also complained “back in out grandfathers day they lived in caves, like real men, we should never left the cave”, those kind of people can only live in a glorified past because don’t have the imagination or courage to be better than
and if they didn't reach that, he would just choke them
@@peters764 please I had coaches who would throw baseballs and basketballs at us for messing up in the 80’s…don’t like it don’t play
Great great coach man, would of loved to have met him and had a conversation about life.
Knight was a man from a different generation. That's the best I can say.
A generation of effective assholes is how I can best describe them.
When men were men and didn't back down to anyone. The 80s is the Ronald Reagan Era . A Real Man in Charge
If NCAA was pro wrestling, Coach Knight would’ve been “Harley Race”! RIP.
Look up “Bobby Knick halftime tirade”. He verbally destroys his team in the locker room. It’s great
RIP General
🧡
Great man.
🐐 MJ
"I want this game over with"
🔥
Legendary coach, one of the greatest 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I watched that final game, he did not coach say a thing?
Back in the day - most all coaches were like Knight. My junior high coaches were maybe worse ha...
He's like Lombardi - he believes his God given duty, and RIGHT, is to do whatever is necessary to get the absolute best from his players - no exception.
@cfbswami "God-given"? Hahahaha! 😆
It was about control and little else.
Jordan playing games with Bob Knight mid-game no less. Great stories!
Jordan didn't fear Bob Knight because he had a Bob Knight inside him. Like how Kobe didn't fear mike because he had a mike inside him.
The best collage basketball coach in history. Rip coach Knight.
The greatest
Say what you want about him, coach knight knew basketball
MJ is the Greatest ❤
After the 1984 Olympics, Wayman Tisdale from Oklahoma said, "I'm going to hug every mean person in Oklahoma." Apparently, Coach Knight's meanness was so outlandish that regular mean people weren't so bad to Tisdale.
During an interview with a local Indiana reporter shortly before he died, when asked the question: "Who's better: LeBron or Jordan?" Knight replied, "Jordan, and it's not even close."
Tyrant? Do you know what that means? A hall of fame coach that demanded excellence, and kids that don’t want to listen to brilliance and back talk. What did the guy actually do, that as an adult you haven’t thought about ? Don’t worry I will wait. Weak minded people create weak people. Wish there was more Bobby knights in this world. We as a society need this discipline. We are out of control.
He wasn’t a tyrant. He was an asshole.
Bobby Knight coached the 1984 men's Olympic basketball team that won the gold medal ! He called Michael Jordan the best player he had ever seen or coached. Knight was a prophet!
The last All Collegiate Team USA
RIP Robert Montgomery Knight
TAKES MORE THAN ONE BUT THAT ONE MICHAEL JORDAN BLENDED VERY WELL...
Love MR Bobby knight
Now the players run the league and look what it’s become. Viewership is down a staggering 50% from 25 years ago.
LOL, no it is not.
@@jamesdavis8731 1998 Game 6 Bulls vs Jazz 22.3 Rating. 2022 Game 6 Warriors vs Celtics 4.3 Rating. Are you arguing that overall viewership is not down tremendously?
Where do you get these stats from? The NBA is bigger around the world than it has ever been.
@@kevink2020yeah definitely not!!!!
@@Ephilly-rz2pb I live and work around the world and the answer is definitely yes.
Not Just a Great Basketball Coach!!!,but Just a Great American!!!!,Period!!!!
Knight was a great coach. Period
You;re a genius!!
He also was not a great guy way too often.
@@tom7471he was not a great coach. Great talent went to that school
I miss Bobby , my kinda SOB. A few thrown chairs, what the Hell.
0:51 did hes knees break lmao
I miss the man in red……Godspeed coach
For all his faults, I would have loved to play for a coach like that.
His arrogance is only surpassed by his ego. Bobby Knight shot someone with a 12 gauge shotgun while poaching birds with no hunting license.
I don’t understand how professional athletes are participating in their pro sport in the Olympics!
This was during a time when the USA sent the best college kids to compete. We started sending our pros after the college kids could no longer match up with the players around the world who were actually professionals themselves. Nobody talks about this when they discuss the Olympics. Several Dream Team players were on this Olympic team during their final year of college. Jordan, Ewing, Chris Mullen, Sir Charles.
The only way you could play for Bobby Knight is if you had a strong father-figure growing up
sounds like a Winner to me!!!! now everyone is SAWTT!
The guys who didn't make that team also would have won. Barkley, Stockton, Porter, Bias, Bowie, Smith, Person.
you can see a man walk in the air at 3:48
The GOAT never had to set screens. It's just not GOAT-like to do so.
Why is that guy telling Knight what's important to Knight? Seems like asking questions is better.
Can you please interview famous Referees from any American Sports
WHY????????
Because we have the real stories. We are the only people that are expected to be perfect at what we do the first time out and then get better the next game. I did 30 years and over 6,000 games and realistically, no one cares one iota. There is no Hall of Fame for Officials. They just do their job, go home and then do it again and again. All without any fanfare.@@travisreynoldsmusic
@@russellfinch5493 This might shock you, but people don't watch games for officials. If you are doing your job right nobody should know who you are. I reffed a bit when I was younger for some money. If i walked out without anyone saying anything to me, I did my job.
JORDAN AND BRYANT, YEAH THEY WOULD GIVE A RESPONSE LIKE THAT....HA...HA...
Bobby Knight > was just the most fantastic human being i’ve ever seen .
Cool story, but with FIBA rules players can't call timeout. 😉
He cut Johnny Dawkins,Charles Barkley,Chuck Persons and a few others for Jeff Farmer,Jon Koncak and Joe Kleine Just Wow
He wanted a team. A team needs role players, not just a collection of stars.
@@generalzod7959 yeah whatever
@generalzod7959 You do know they we're Sophomores,Juniors with 5 seniors so Super team not but good try
@@mcneildelancy4536did he mention "super team". Your comprehension went down the drain.
Do you know what happened when these college kids went against NBA all stars for 8 games? They went 8-0. Thrashed the NBA with players like prime Magic, Bird, and Isiah. Again, as above person said, a team and not just a collection of stars. 🤷♂️
@lamefart8831 They didn't play against bird,Thomas it was washed up players including Bill Walton I can remember Alvin dunking on bill
I'd like to know who the other two "sonsofbitches" were and if Jordan set screens so they could stay in the game.
OK, THIS a PHENOMENAL story I wish could be ‘pinned’ for all to read. Cause ironically, I’m a lifelong Washingtonian :) who revered Coach Knight from afar - as a HS/college student during the height of his 80’s run - with aspirations of being a Head Coach someday; which I would end up doing for 2+ decades, but as a 🏈 Coach. Crazier yet however, is that the very moment I’m reading this, I’m currently visiting my parents in Olympia, WA, which is ‘1 Hour South of Seattle’! 😀 And while I don’t expect you to remember the city or river from ~40 years ago, the mere fact I ‘looked’ for this interview and actually ‘looked’ at the comments (as opposed to some algorithm or AI Bot knowing where I am and that there would be a singular comment whose only real connections is the location you mentioned; let alone the odds I’d even read the comments - which I never do) is quite frankly, a little wild & really damn cool IMO! 👊🏼
Not sure you will even see this reply to your specific comment, but if you do, thanks for sharing your fantastic story about Coach Knight and hope you have a PHENOMENAL Day!
PS. Can’t wait to share your comment with a ton of nearby family & friends who also loved Coach Knight as we didn’t judge him on just the overhyped negative that was shown back in the day. Knowing there had to also be a ton of POSITIVE reasons the best players in America 🇺🇸 continued to go play for him year after year after year; and MJ sure didn’t seem to have any issues with him Coach Knight while briefly under his tutelage either! 💯