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Username Post: Pete Carril        (Topic#26463)
palestra38 
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Re: Pete Carril
08-22-22 08:14 AM - Post#344171    
    In response to final479

Very astute Carril retrospective. I agree wholeheartedly with the view that Pete was a great great floor coach who was even better at the underdog narrative....but he never won the league when he didn't have the better talent, such as that 2 year gap of Penn's excellence in the '70s (the overlap from Daly to Weinhauer when Engles got hurt and before the Final Four team was recruited), when Pete had a team led by Armond Hill---an NBA'er, along with Barnes Hauptfuhrer and Frank Sowinski---a very very good Ivy team. And when Penn was historically down in the late '80s, he had Kit Mueller. He won when he had the best talent. But still, his teams were always well coached on the floor.

 
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Re: Pete Carril
08-22-22 09:26 PM - Post#344196    
    In response to final479

I will admit that I rooted for Pete’s teams in the big dance.

 
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09-07-22 09:14 PM - Post#344525    
    In response to 10Q

As a youngster, my experience of basketball in early 1970s was NBA games with high-speed play and scores that seemed always to be very close, so the percentage difference between winner and loser was tiny. Back then, the cliche was that pro teams generally played little D and that you only needed to tune in to the last couple of minutes of a game.

Then one day, on an independent TV channel, I caught a Princeton-St. Joseph's game in the afternoon. I had never seen one team D up another like that, or play with such precision offensively, or lead by such an absurd percentage at halftime (they had doubled up the Hawks 30-15). I was hooked.

 
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