Speak the Truth, Woj, Speak the Truth!

I have never been a big Adrian Wojnarowski fan. I mean as a journalist he does very well, but I often find his analysis a little lacking. Then again, maybe that's Yahoo. Either way, Empty the Bench did a fantastic interview with Woj centered around Team USA for their Scribes of the NBA series (if for whatever reason you haven't been reading these, make sure to check them out), and I have newfound respect for the man. A snippet:

"To me, the biggest surprise was how much credit that people wanted to give Mike Krzyzewski for this team. The least surprising? The fact that he has already sold another ‘motivational’ book that will detail his leadership of the gold-medal winning team.

As one NBA GM said to me, 'I guess K didn’t have time to do a book after ’06.' Those were the world championships when Krzyzewski couldn’t make an adjustment to stop the Greece pick and roll and didn’t prepare enough to know the names of the Greek players. The insistence after that semifinal loss was that the team was too young and too inexperienced. They had enough to win in ’06, but obviously they were much better by ’08. Still, putting that loss in the Worlds on the players was typical of the college coaching establishment. They want the credit when it goes well, and none of the blame when it doesn’t."

Can't wait for Part 2 tomorrow.