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Lute Olson
Lute Olson caught an overnight flight from LAX to Amsterdam in late June 1986. He changed planes on a Saturday afternoon and flew on to Paris to begin a revealing 12-game, 22-day odyssey that would define his career as much as any other series of games.
At Charles de Gaulle Airport, Olson fumed when his luggage didn't arrive. There was no time to shop and Olson has never been one to dress inappropriately, especially on the world stage.
Team USA would play two exhibition games in France and then fly to Spain, where his college kids would play the pros from Italy, Russia, Yugoslavia, Argentina and Brazil. The U.S. had not won the world championship for 32 years, and now Olson had lost his USA Basketball coaching wardrobe.
So he borrowed coaching gear from the team trainer, Tim Garl of Indiana. When the Americans held their first workout, and later, when they arrived in Spain, Olson often wore a red "Indiana Hoosiers" shirt.
That's how single-minded Olson was in his attempt to make a mark in international basketball. He wore the jersey of a former Big Ten rival rather than interrupt his preparation.
I followed Olson during his run as the head coach of USA Basketball, from training camp in Colorado Springs, to a pair of sold-out exhibition games in McKale Center, and finally to the tense qualifying and medal-round games in Malaga, Oviedo and Madrid, Spain.
That two-month journey affirmed more about Olson's coaching ability than anything I saw during his 776 games as Arizona's basketball coach. It was a compelling period in which you realized Olson was not simply a good recruiter, nor that he could win only when blessed with extraordinary players. And neither was he lucky.
No wonder he coached the Wildcats to 24 consecutive NCAA tournaments.
It began in late May at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. USA Basketball had assembled about 60 players; from that roster, Olson would take 15 to Europe.
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