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Ex-coach Dick Motta could make it sing

“I don’t know of another guy in the history of the game that has succeeded on all levels.”

SALT LAKE CITY — One thing that made Dick Motta a players’ coach was he knew how to practice. If Allen Iverson — he of the famous “practice” rant — had played for Motta, the controversy would have never arisen.

“Practice was never longer than two hours, ever,” says Phil Johnson, who twice played and worked for Motta.

“Almost every facet of basketball, he would devise a game. So if you were working on rebounding, he would figure out a competitive game on rebounding.