From Go Duke The Magazine (by Barry Jacobs) -- Mike Krzyzewski has been known to playfully challenge the word choice of a questioner during postgame press conferences. This is more likely to occur following victories, and there have been plenty of those. Not that the questions matter nearly as much as answers that offer insights into the coach's richly textured, intricately analyzed basketball world.
So it was that, after defeating Winthrop in late November, Krzyzewski unobtrusively shared a fundamental tenet of his thinking, an imperative that shapes his approach to teaching and coaching the game.