Krzyzewski who has been included in the Hall of Fame was regarded as “America’s Best Coach” by the Time magazine and CNN. In 1992 he was an assistant coach on the popular “Dream Team” of USA basketball. He has also won three national championships at Duke.
Although Krzyzewski has an excellent resume in coaching history he had to face considerable criticism three years ago when he was selected as coach for the USA team. The cause of this criticism was that the USA team comprises of only NBA players and Krzyzewski has not coached even a single game at the pro level.
In the current scenario the critics are silent as Krzyzewski has managed a good job by coaching the USA team while the 2008 Beijing Olympics are about 30 days away. Krzyzewski’s record is 23-1 so far as USA’s coach and he has also won the 2007 FIBA Americas Championships in robust mode.
Just some days back Krzyzewski said that in sports some people think that a particular strategy is going to work or isn’t going to work or has to be molded in a certain fashion to work. However he doesn’t pay any attention to the positive or negative opinions. His opinion is that the learning graph for the international game is identical for a college coach as well as an NBA coach.