As we think we mentioned earlier this summer, Netflix has a documentary coming soon about the 2008 US Olympic mens’ basketball team, aka The Redeem Team.
Mike Krzyzewski was the coach of course and he had a lot to learn. He was taking NBA players, a level of basketball that he had never coached, and there was no particular reason why they should embrace a college coach.
In the trailer, Coach K says that “A lot of them weren’t known as great team players. I had a lot of concerns, that’s why we recruited Kobe Bryant.