Summary So Far

       I've read a little further in my book Playing for Knight. So far Steve has talked about his freshman year at Indiana University. He goes in deep on how hard of a program it is. He talks about the first practice at midnight on October 15th. Usually for basketball players that practice is the first one that kicks off the year and is usually a fun one where the coaches and players can talk and just play pick-up games. But thats not how it is with Coach Knight. Alford says, "Some colleges- Kentucky, Kansas, and a few others- celebrated October 15th with midnight scrimmages open to the public, but Coach Knight was a traditionalist. Practice meant work, no show biz." This really shows coaches determination towards the game. In the practice Steve asks all the players where coach is and they say he always shows up late and he walks in the gray door over there. So for the next 15 min of practice the players are constantly looking over there shoulder at that door.
 
       Once coach finally gets there every one lines up on the baseline and he demands them go to the film room. In there everyone has a notebook and actually has to take notes on previous games played. Steve actually just doodles in his book and doesn't really pay any attention. Then They go back out onto the court and spend the rest of practice working on screens. Steve is actually tired from the fast pace of practice and is just waiting for practice to end.

      The next day the team has a team dinner without coach, and it's just a good time. The upper class tell "war stories" about there previous basketball years here at IU. On of the players won two state championships in highschool in Illinois, and had bumber stickers of them on his car. But when coach saw he screemed, " I don't care what you did in highschool, this is higher level basketball," and he had to take them off. This is where I left off.