LONDON – When you make a joke to an international audience – even a pretty good one – you run the risk of being misinterpreted.
That happened to U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski Friday night following his team’s 26-point win over Argentina to push the U.S. into Sunday's gold-medal game against Spain. In the U.S. press conference a TV reporter from America asked given this team of superstars: “How much coaching is really involved?”
You could tell Coach K was irritated a little by the question, but he defused it with humor.
“None,” he said. “You got it. Absolutely none. I’m out every night with my family, drunk as a skunk. Wait until you see me tonight. I’ll get in at 6 a.m., and you all are invited to come out with me. We just roll out the damn ball and that’s it. You got it. I don’t know how you figured that out.”
Most of the room laughed. Then, five minutes later, a foreign reporter started a question to Kevin Durant like this: “Kevin, Coach K says he has been going out drinking a lot. What have you….”
Krzyzewski interrupted him then, telling the reporter he had been joking. “Oh, sorry,” the reporter said. “I didn’t catch the irony.”
I thought that was funny, too. The guy knows the word “irony” but didn’t get the joke about “drunk as a skunk”?
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Lehigh.....
Could be the reporter was making a joke, but K didn't get it. He is a little uptight you know.
"Could be the reporter was making a joke, but K didn't get it. He is a little uptight you know."
It would make absolutely no sense if the reporter was making a joke.
This was England and idioms and American humor don't always travel well. Most Americans didn't exactly understand Monty Python and silly walks either.
I think it's funny. We need more jokes in our world.
Too bad Scott doesn't know the difference between humor and a jerky, sarcastic put down. A reporter asks a reasonable question and K can't stand that he might not be getting enough credit.
If Roy was the coach it would not have been a joke. I use "coach" lightly obviously.
Atleast Lehigh made it to the tournament with Duke and beat them. Wasn't all that long ago that UNC was playing in the NIT and watching the men's tournamement from home...
Um FSU 90, UNC 57?
GO USA
I'll just leave this right here:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/19753693/critical-coaches-who-is-the-most-overrated-coach-in-the-country
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