Dean Smith.

He was probably the best player of all time, and it would only be enough to write about him and the story forever, and that was just part of what Dean Smith represented.

Greater glory hardly could have led the humble man. He never wanted to win at all costs, he just wanted to convey knowledge. He raised dozens of top players and coaches and was there for them every day whenever he needed something, and he never wanted anything in return.

He went the way he came, quietly, without the pumps. Others simply did not know.

"I want to say something about Dean Smith ..." this is how Alexander Džicic turned to me.
How to refuse a man who runs on the bar almost 200kg. The crazed duo will continue to try to see what Smith all meant for basketball.

"Kouč Žile" is a great respect for the character and part of Dean Smith. Respect jumped to the sky when he and a couple of trainers from El Deano came to his office and talked to them as flush with them and patiently answered all the questions:

"I've been at 33, and I'm discussing with Dean Smith, you can understand my excitement."

Dean Smith on the bench North Caroline came after the NCAA sanction and the departure of the celebrated Frank McGuirre. McGuirre was pure charisma. He had anecdotes for every society but after his departure, the main men for sports at UNC have been looking for someone to do their job and to run the basketball program clean without any bullshit. The choice fell to the former assistant - Dean Smith.



The election has also faced significant public opposition. The coach's life is less - more everywhere the same. Discontent, criticism, ridicule ... At least, most of the beginnings are such. Later, those famous "I've always believed in you."

"The doll with Dean Smith's dress was hanged on Chapell Hill, his second or third year on the bench. The results were just not some, and most of the fans wanted to have a sounder name from the beginning ..."

Jille often tells this story when Smith is advised and she clearly shows that no environment is particularly different to coaches. When they get the results then suddenly they create those who "provided support from scratch ..."

Dean Smith played basketball under the guidance of one of the inventors of this legendary Kansas Phog Allen coach so he had where to learn this game from the start. What Dean did at the end of the day and did the best in life - taught others how to play basketball. John Wooden, who could always say for himself that he was the best coach of all time and a little bit to find the opposite, unconvincingly admitted:

"The best basketball coach ever is Dean Smith."

Not just basketball. With the media he was mostly silent, with no spectacular statements.

"I'm just saying what I mean. I'm just not saying anything I mean."

He was in the courtroom, but when something was to be done, something of social and social importance, Dean Smith did it without much philosophizing and empty talk.

"When I was a boy in Kansas with me in high school, American football played a different black skin color. It was very good in football and basketball but basketball did not play in our team. My dad was a drug with the school director and I left to ask him about the case, he told me that the problem would be a dance after school and that he can not play in our team. "I said hello and went out." I was stupid. "



The person who created racial equality in Chapell Hill was just Dean Smith. The first black sportsman at North Carolina University has been awarded a sports scholarship and Dean Smith ran into racist races at places where blacks were not allowed to eat, and of course both would be served. That's how it started.

"It's hard for me to list everything that makes this man a legend," says Jille.

"One thing I always think is that only the biggest ones leave behind great players and great trainers who follow their path and their basic philosophy, which can only be the greatest."

Especially in coaching. Leaving behind the trainers is not easy. There were a lot of big basketball coaches, but a significant number of them were very scanty about transferring knowledge. The assistants mostly took the clam and the obedients who were there to mass their ego or work those dull, sideways things.

Smith taught Larry Browne, Gregg Popovich, George Charles, Roy Williamson, Douglas Moore, Billy Cunnigha to trainee the most important ones ...

"The man has introduced a thank-you for basketball assistance, you know the one with his finger to the scorer after his knee, his invention, his secondary invention, his invention, the basketball analytics, the average number of points per attack, something that we call today's advanced statistics. 40 years ago, he was the first to change the defense, two of the three types in each game, he introduced a gay passing as an attack system, a flow of balls and players without a lot of dribbling and adultery.