This is a really good article by David Aldridge about Jerry West from back when Hubie was just hired...sometimes its interesting to read these things in retrospect... Here are selected portions of the article: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">He does not take it as a compliment that half the league gives him, and him alone, the benefit of the doubt on this choice of his, this re-anointing of 69-year-old Hubie Brown. "Indirectly, they're saying (Brown) is crazy," Jerry West says. Maybe that's true. But what they're saying flat-out directly is that Jerry's Brain does not get second-guessed. It is a collection of synapses that fire in a manner of different directions, and over the years, his mind has operated at its own pace. [...] It's not that West is right every year about every player -- he isn't. But when he is right, he doesn't allow anyone to talk him out of it. This league is filled with personnel guys who won't pull the trigger on a decision until they talk to every scout, coach and pundit in their Rolodex. The Grizzlies were right when they took Francis, and the Nets were right when they were about to take Kobe Bryant. But they allowed others to talk (or threaten) them out of it. Losing franchises seem to do that. West, though, doesn't believe in putting his finger in the wind to help him decide. "It's not so much trust," he said. "I just think if you ask 10 people, you're going to get more than one opinion. If you ask five people, you're going to get more than one opinion. I'd rather not confuse myself by asking 10 people." [...] So it goes with West. What seems a gamble outside his brain is just another decision to make, another time to put it on the line. He knows Brown isn't going to work miracles, because there's too much in Memphis that needs doing.</div> Link
