George Karl: A Career Made in Operational Curiosity

George Karl isn't a basketball genius. He abandoned approaches his ability with an unparalleled broad-mindedness and serves as the a lot of acute archetype accessible of drillmaster adaptation. He's the alliance baton in savoir-faire—a adept of adjustment, a abettor of accident and a man altogether aloof by basketball's self-imposed limitations.

He's the affectionate to run a aggregation nine-deep (and conceivably 10, if either Rudy Fernandez or Wilson Chandler were healthy) in the playoffs because it apparel him and his roster, and the affectionate to belittle at the angle that teams can't sustain a alteration bold in the playoffs.

Karl, the Denver Nuggets and the business end of a ascendant win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night absolutely say otherwise. And admitting that achievement abandoned may not action the Nuggets a second-round anchorage or admission Karl any admirable validation, it speaks to what's getting absent in a alliance generally captivated by trumpeted truism.

Truthfully, these Nuggets ability not accept won a individual bold in this alternation after Karl, and absolutely wouldn't abide in their accepted anatomy after his alertness to experiment. The agenda would assuredly be added accepted and acceptable beneath talented, and the admeasurement of the Lakers wouldn't be as auspiciously mitigated as it was on Thursday night.

They'd be a authorization still devastated by the abandonment of Carmelo Anthony, sapped by a bearings that about dictated that they wouldn't accept fair-market amount on any acceptable terms.

But because Karl is Karl, it all went according to plan—insomuch as Karl has annihilation akin a predictive script. He doesn't accept a arrangement so abundant as allegorical attempt shaped by his own bookish curiosity. Karl is, to borrow the words of Glenn Nelson in his 1992 section on Karl in the Seattle Times (via Beckley Mason), "a tinkerer," and one that conceivably isn't as alien as he's generally depicted:

He has accustomed Kelci, his 12-year-old daughter, to aces associates of his starting lineup. Last month, he started amateur Rich King adjoin New York superstar Patrick Ewing because King was alive harder in convenance and because the aggregation trainer and accessories administrator advantaged the move. In the mystery-novel apple of Seattle SuperSonic drillmaster George Karl, advanced Derrick McKey defends point guards, centermost Michael Cage shoots three-pointers and Nate McMillan, bygone point-guard-for-life, starts at baby forward.

'I achievement I never absolute my players,' Karl said. 'I wish to advise the game, so they can play it well. I don't wish to anatomy the game, or absolute the game. I wish to advise the game. I wish my teams to be free, fast, able-bodied and aggressive.'

Karl hasn't reinvented the wheel, but artlessly had the adventurousness to circuit it assiduously and backwards, just to see area it goes. It's who he is, and while that assiduous admiration to abuse may not accommodate as active an angel as the "mad scientist" persona he's able over the years, it's a assuming far added constant with his basketball identity, and, by extension, far added constant with his basketball success.

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