As an assistant for his dad Bill with the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves, new Arkansas basketball coach Eric Musselman was just not down with his father’s slow pace of play.
“Interestingly, we play exactly the opposite of my dad’s teams,” Musselman said. “My dad was a great defensive coach and they played really, really slow on offense. So when I was sitting on his bench as an assistant coach with the (Minnesota) Timberwolves, I was like yawning and saying ‘dad, let’s score some transition baskets.’
“So I just kind of started forming my own philosophy on trying to create my own style that players would await to be a part of, that fans would want to be a part of, that coaches would want to be a part of and especially at the collegiate level.