Is Rick Carlisle channeling Dan Rather?
No, Carlisle's not ending every press conference with the word "Courage." Rather, he's apparently got Rather's nack for quotes that are meant to be folksy but really just leave you scratching your head.
Consider this one after the Pacers dropped game four to the Pistons.
"We had some good shots but couldn't hit a bull in the rear end with a bass fiddle."
Uh-huh.
This raises all sorts of questions. Why a bull? Why not a horse? Why a bass fiddle? Why not a viola? Why the rear end? Why not the flank?
Maybe Jeff Carlton can explain this. Is this some sort of homespun wisdom Carlisle might have cultivated at Mr. Jefferson's university in Charlottesville?
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They weren't using such homespun pearls of wisdom when I was there, which was a few years after Carlisle's time (e.g. when UVa basketball was good). That bull-and-bass-fiddle line sounds more like Jim Davis, the Clemson women's basketball coach who once told us after winning an ACC championship in Fayetteville: "It was hotter than a stud duck in a hen house out there."
Posted on May 18, 2005 4:15 PM