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Interesting approach to teaching

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:30 am
by MustangFan
Is everyone in the Knight family a jerk to his players?


12-year-old sparks Raiders

Jan. 2, 2009, 1:10AM

Knight knows he can always turn to his famous father to talk about coaching.

On Thursday, though, the young Knight didn’t call on Bob Knight. Instead he turned to a fan to help his Texas Tech players who were missing layup after layup in Tech’s 69-55 victory over Stephen F. Austin.

After Texas Tech botched as many as 15 layups, Knight scoured the stands near the bench and invited a youngster to join a team huddle.

Knight asked the boy whether he could make layups. The boy said he could.

“I was just tired of having 18- or 21-year-olds miss layups that a 12-year-old could hit, so I brought a 12-year-old in to let them know that he could hit layups,â€