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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4627278, member: 1145"]
The most important quote from this series is this one about Georgetown under John Thompson: " And they started something that changed basketball – and not for the better, in my opinion. They wouldn’t try to play normal basketball defense- keep your man in front of you and challenge their shots and passes. Instead, they maintained almost constant physical contact, trying to establish the maximum they could get away with the refs. They didn’t avoid fouls. Instead they fouled constantly such that the refs couldn’t call everything or the game wouldn’t be able to finish. Instead, the refs would only call the most egregious sins – maybe. Physical teams always get away with more than finesse teams."

Before the creation of the Big East, Thompson had decided that his way to win was to have his teams play goon basketball and to dare officials to call even a faction of the fouls his teams would commit. When Big John been proclaiming for a few seasons that calling fouls on his team was racist, because it was penalizing the black players who came from back neighborhoods, he was assured of both easy recruiting of many black players - those more inclined to things associated with inner city gang life - and of refs backing down when he tongue lashed them. By the time Nolan Richardson began emulating Thompson with great success, the game was alltered for the worse irreparably.
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