Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing, former Nick's Great, former Georgetown Great, national champion
Speaker 1: with the Georgetown Hoyas, has been named the new head
Speaker 1: coach of the Georgetown basketball team. And I gotta tell
Speaker 1: you something, this is a long time coming for Patrick Ewing.
Speaker 1: Fifteen years spent as an NBA assistant, never really got
Speaker 1: a chance. A lot of people are saying that his intellect,
Speaker 1: his basketball intellect, has been underestimated for a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: Some of them saying because the Ewing was just bad
Speaker 1: with the media, that nobody wanted to give him a
Speaker 1: job because of the pr of it the media training.
Speaker 1: Other people are saying, you know, there's this narrative that
Speaker 1: when former players become coaches that they're only like point guards,
Speaker 1: that the big man. To be quite honest, the narrative
Speaker 1: out there is that they're not smart enough, that they're
Speaker 1: too dumb. And I don't think that's the case with
Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing. Okay, what I want to see is will
Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing be able to recruit? Being a coach in
Speaker 1: the NBA and being a coach in college are two
Speaker 1: very different things. In college, it's really all about recruiting.
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be able to get in to those
Speaker 1: families living rooms and tell people and sell why they
Speaker 1: should come to Georgetown and stay. I don't know. On
Speaker 1: the con side of this, Youing teaches a defensive and
Speaker 1: rebounding and tough kind of style that he had at
Speaker 1: Georgetown that he had with the Knicks. That's not the
Speaker 1: way the game is going. The way it's going the
Speaker 1: u c l A Golden State Warriors spread and shoot.
Speaker 1: But I do think you and will be able to
Speaker 1: recruit whoever the best big men are in the country.
Speaker 1: Who better to learn from if you are trying to
Speaker 1: get to the NBA as a big man then going
Speaker 1: to Georgetown having the tutelage of Patrick Youing