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For fans who had watched him
since his days as a Carolina schoolboy,
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what emerged now was not just
the skill but the will power.
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Those who remembered
his raw potential...
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now saw the results
of a lifetime of hard work.
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He would go to J.V.
practice and practice,
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and then he'd go to varsity practice.
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We'd play ball games,
and after the games were over,
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he'd run what we called "suicides"
or line drills...
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he'd run those by himself.
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I just maveled
at his work habits even then.
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With his competitiveness
to go with all that dedication,
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you know, it was something to see.
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The weakest part of Michael's game
on the offensive end...was his shooting.
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So he obviously mastered something...
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that everybody said he couldn't
do when he came out of college.
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And he didn't by shooting
and shooting and shooting...
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and shooting consistently.
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The other thing
that people told him...
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that he wasn't a really good
defensive player.
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And he found a way...
:09:12
not only to become
a great defensive player...
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but the best defensive player
in the NBA
:09:18
This guy said,
"Those are my weaknesses.
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I'm going to figure out how to
make those my strengths." And he didn't.
:09:26
I got a glimpse,
really, of Michael Jordan...
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and what he was all about the
first time lever coached him.
:09:31
About two minutes to go in
the game, I called a time-out.
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And we were down two... it was
right there in the balance.
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And I had some
little powder on my mouth...
:09:41
from where I chewed some gum
and chewed it so hard...
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that it really had become powder.
:09:44
And Michael grabbed a cup of
water and he handed it to me,
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and he said,
"Take a drink of this water.
:09:49
"Clear that stuff off your mouth.
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I'm not going to let you
lose your first game."
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The level of faith that
I have in anything in life...
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is taught to you from your parents.
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It is a trait that I would never
trade anything for.