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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 1640519, member: 1452"]
I DVR'd the SU-Duke game from 1989 on ESPN Classic and I had one eye on it while I was making dinner.

One thing that struck me, which is why I DVR'd it and want to watch it again much more closely, is how much less of a perfectionist JB seemed to be back then - especially on the Defensive end.

We gave up a ton of run outs to Duke and I thought I saw a bunch of lapses that JB would simply never stand for today...

When you watch JB coach as much as all of us do, I think you kind of develop a rhythm for knowing when he is going to call timeout, when he is going to pull someone etc...

When Hop was coaching, there were times where I was waiting for someone to get pulled for a mistake and it didn't happen simply because Hop is a different coach (not making a judgement on whether pulling the guy at that point was the right move or not, simply saying that I felt that JB would have made the sub shile Hop didn't).

I got that same sense during the 1989 Duke game.  Someone would do something which would give me that Uh-Oh,-he's-gonna-get-screamed-at-and-he's-gonna-get-pulled spidey sense and it wouldn't happen.  Very interesting to watch games from different eras to watch how JB has evolved as a coach.

I'd love to watch a game from the 70s to see what he was like at the beginning...

No doubt, Hop is going to have his growing pains. It is impossible toreplace one of the best ever and immediately be on that level...

Does 2016 JB collect that technical foul against Iowa which completely changed the momentum of the game?  I doubt it.  1980 JB did.
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