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Tom Lehman turns to international coaching loser Mike Krzyzewski for advice: Forget any Ryder Cup win now

Saturday September 16, 2006 | 02:37:55 280 words, 2411 views
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Tom Lehman apparently yearns to somehow finish third at the Ryder Cup. The two-team Ryder Cup.

Why else turn to Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski for international coaching advice.

That’s equivalent to going to Martha Stewart for legal advice, to Urkel for tough guy advice, to O.J. Simpson for marriage advice.

Coach Overrated K is fresh off guiding the U.S. Basketball Team to a third-place finish at the World Championships. After weeks of fawning press coverage touting how things had changed dramatically under the sage coaching and team building of Krzyzewski, the U.S. lost to a Greece team that couldn’t beat the Atlanta Hawks on an off-night for the Hawks. A Greece team that promptly turned around and lost the Gold Medal Game by about 40 points to a Spanish team that didn’t even have Pau Gasol.

Granted, Coach American Express didn’t do as bad of a job as Larry Brown did in Athens when the U.S. also finished third. But that’s only because Brown’s Olympic run of whine ranks as the worst coaching job in basketball history.

Coach Phony, er K, at least managed to play LeBron James. Though it took him until the Bronze Medal Game - with Gold already gone - to use LeBron as a point forward, the position the NBA’s best talent should have been in all along.

Seeing this, Lehman still decides to ask Krzyzewski for his words of wisdom on international coaching. Lehman spent two hours with Coach Scream this week.

Nice, Tom. Why not just consult Gene Mauch or Marv Levy?

They know how to lose the big one too. Of course, no one’s blown quite as many Final Fours as K.

Comments:

Comment from: JR [Visitor]
Coach K is a fantastic coach... How can you call him a phony??? What an ____ you are.
Permalink 2006-09-16 @ 10:43
Comment from: RonMon [Visitor] · http://travelgolf.com/blogs/ron.mon
You dumb butt. Do you think Coach K has all the answers, or that Lehman expects that he does? All he needs is a sifting of the K-Man's ideas to find ones that fit his situation. It's always all-or-nothing with Baldwin, isn't it?
Permalink 2006-09-16 @ 23:22
Comment from: Mike [Visitor]
What? No mention of Michelle Wie? Your slipping pal
Permalink 2006-09-16 @ 23:56
Comment from: Marcus [Visitor]
Your last statement says it all.

"no one's blown quite as many Final Fours as K." ...

do you know why? that's because NO ONE goes to the Final Four like Coach K. While I am on the subject of finishing second or third, I believe Mr. Nicklaus did that many, many times, but I guess he is a loser too :)
Permalink 2006-09-17 @ 05:35
Comment from: Brandon Tucker [Member] Email · http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker
After the big win at Notre Dame yesterday, he shoulda turned to my boy Lloyd Carr!
Permalink 2006-09-17 @ 10:47

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