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Topic: Tex Winter


  
  The Daily Northwestern {11.14.2001}   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Winter left Kansas State for the University of Washington, where he stayed three years, before a short head coaching stint in the NBA with the San Diego Rockets from 1971-73.
Winter also wanted to continue working with Jackson, the master pupil whom he had mentored since Jackson joined the Bulls as a third assistant coach in 1987, before taking over the team in 1989.
Winter has scaled back his coaching this season, teaching the triangle offense in practice and traveling with the Lakers only when he wants to.
www.dailynorthwestern.com /daily/issues/2001/11/14/sports/s-tex.shtml   (1296 words)

  
 v6n130-winter.html
Tex Winter, a former head coach at Long Beach State for five years, returned to The Beach to join the Los Angeles Laker’s coaching staff lead by Phil Jackson.
Winter, who flew in to Los Angeles last weekend, was on hand at The Pyramid for Laker’s final game Tuesday to capture a glimpse of some of the young Lakers playing in the Fila Summer Pro League.
Winter said he considers Shaq the best pivotman in basketball and that should add an extra dimension to the offense.
www.csulb.edu /~d49er/Summer99/v6n130-winter.html   (308 words)

  
 Hoop Hall News Page -- Finalists For Election Announced   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
TEX WINTER is in the midst of his 54th season as a coach at the Division I or professional level, the longest tenure of any active coach in college or professional basketball.
Winter, the architect of the famed triangle offense, was a member of the coaching staff of the Bulls' championship teams in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998 and with the Los Angeles Lakers last season.
Winter was named national UPI Coach of the Year and UPI and AP rated Kansas State the number one team in the country.
www.hoophall.com /news/north_american_032800.htm   (2309 words)

  
 CNN/SI - NBA Basketball - Tex Winter to join Jackson, Lakers - Saturday July 17, 1999 11:02 AM
Winter is the third member of Phil Jackson's former coaching staff to be reunited with Jackson, who took over as head coach of the Lakers this summer.
But Winter said he only wants to coach one more year and with Jackson the talented Lakers are considered a contender for the NBA title.
Winter, whose 53 years in coaching is the longest tenure of any coach in basketball history, literally wrote the book ("The Triple-Post Offense" in 1962) on the offense -- also called the triangle -- the Bulls ran during their championship run.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/nba/news/1999/07/16/tex_lakers   (323 words)

  
 Basketball finds a lion in Winter | PortlandTribune.com
Tex Winter has nine of them, but the newest is special — diamond studs designed in the shape of a triangle, dedicated by the Los Angeles Lakers to the father of the “triangle” offense after their run to the NBA title in 2003.
Winter is best-known for his 19 years as an NBA assistant, and he also was head coach of the San Diego Rockets for a season and a half in the early ’70s.
Winter and Jackson were assistants together on Doug Collins’ staff in Chicago in the late ’80s, and Jackson served as Winter’s assistant one year in the Southern California Summer Pro League.
www.portlandtribune.com /archview.cgi?id=28998   (1374 words)

  
 LaGrandeObserver.com
Winter was only 28 when he became head coach of Marquette University; he was the youngest Division I coach in the nation.
Winter has earned a reputation for himself as a great contributor to the game, but the Lone Star State is where his nickname originated.
Winter was in the service for two and a half years as a Navy carrier pilot.
www.lagrandeobserver.com /news/story.cfm?story_no=7119   (1734 words)

  
 GORE-TEX® and WINDSTOPPER® Fabrics | News: Gore Newest Winter Trails Sponsor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Winter Trails® is a free one-day event geared towards families, hikers and fitness walkers, recreational enthusiasts, school groups and youth organizations who are interested in learning more about the sport of snowshoeing.
Winter Trails® 2004 is the ninth annual national snowshoe event series hosted by winterfeelsgood.com and AHS.
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www.gore-tex.com /webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentFView?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&productId=10554   (577 words)

  
 ME_Matuszak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Fred “Tex” Winter stands today as one of basketball’s greatest living legends, having actively coached for an amazing 57 years, more than any other coach in the game’s history.
It’s not been uncommon for players to send their sons to play under Tex Winter, no matter where he happened to be coaching.
Besides Tex Winter’s outstanding record as a coach, his contributions to the game overall have been significant.
www.mainstreetrag.com /ME_Matuszak.html   (518 words)

  
 Iolani School - Coaching Legend Visits Class
Iolani was treated to a special visit on Wednesday, October 12th when eighty-three-year-old Tex Winter, a living legend who is currently a part-time Assistant Coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, spoke to the period 6 class of Literature of Sport, an elective offered by the English Department taught by Mr.
Winter is in his eighties, the powerful messages he delivered about teamwork, unselfishness, realistic goals, modesty, attention to detail, and the value of education never grow old. 
Winter himself had high praise for the conduct of the Iolani students and for the appearance of the campus.  It was indeed a unique stroke of good fortune that members of the Iolani ohana had the chance to spend time with someone as renowned and yet down to earth as Tex Winter
www.iolani.org /wn_usacad_101405_cp01.htm   (227 words)

  
 Texas Monthly June 2000: Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
When Morice Fredrick Winter and his twin sister, Mona, were two, the family moved from Wellington to Memphis and then to Lubbock.
Eight years later, in 1932, his father died, and his mother struggled to keep her four children fed. Tex and his older brother, Ernest, pitched in by scavenging through the garbage for old boxes, which they traded for day-old bread.
Tex stuck around Chicago for a year, when the Bulls were one of the worst teams in the league.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/2000-06-01/sports.php   (1926 words)

  
 Celtic-Nation.com: Boston Celtics forums - an article on Tex. some interesting statements in it.
Tex Winter's second run at retirement is fast unraveling.
Winter brought an elegant team offense to the egocentric NBA and sold it to the likes of Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal.
Winter's frame of reference is shaped by decades and decades in the game.
www.celtic-nation.com /forum/showthread.php?p=89660   (852 words)

  
 SI.com - SI Writers - Marty Burns - Inside the NBA - Marty Burns: Tex deserves a place in Hall of Fame - Friday March ...
Lakers assistant Tex Winter, 81, the architect of the triangle offense and Phil Jackson's right hand man during all his championship years in Chicago and L.A., is on the short list.
After all, Winter is in the midst of his 55th season as a coach at the NBA or Division I level, the longest tenure of any active coach in pro or college hoops.
Winter also had college coaching stints at Marquette, Washington, Northwestern and Cal State-Long Beach, as well as a brief pro stint with the NBA's San Diego Rockets.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /inside_game/marty_burns/news/2003/03/28/burns_insider   (699 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - Trouble in paradise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Longtime assistant coach Tex Winter, the gadfly of the coaching staff, was a lot more direct when he confronted Kobe in the locker room after the game.
Tex Winter said Bryant was "out of control" in the Lakers' season-opening loss to the Spurs.
Later, when I mentioned to Phil what Tex had said, he just laughed, explaining Tex is a perfectionist who overreacts to ugly losses and ugly wins.
sports.espn.go.com /page2/s/rosen/021101.html   (1593 words)

  
 HollaFront.com - "Phil & Kobe, together again”--Excerpt From "The Show"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Winter said it was made worse by Jackson’s refusal to have any sort of in-depth meeting or relationship with the young guard.
Winter, the inventor of the system that had won nine NBA championships, had introduced them both to his creation.
Winter pointed out that during their five seasons together Jackson had declined to engage in any sort of in-depth meeting with Bryant yet regularly criticized him to the media.
www.holla-front.com /forum/showthread.php?t=73070   (2857 words)

  
 The Manhattan Free Press On Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Winter actually gives credit for the triangle attack to Coach Sam Berry of USC in the 1930s, but the full development is due to coaching work of Coach Winter.
Lindsborg resident Jack Parr, a KSU student-athlete player for Winter, recently was named by KSU during the centennial of Wildcast basketball as one of the top five players ever at that institution.
Coach Winter, although he now is getting along in years, is still actively coaching in the NBA at Los Angeles.
www.kansas.net /~freepress/11-8-01-4.html   (409 words)

  
 Training Tips
Of course, winter running is a more pleasurable experience if you are dressed appropriately for the conditions.
Bringing the winter apparel full circle are the accessories (hats, gloves, etc.) and sports tights made from the previously mentioned materials.
And to be comfortable during winter running means staying dry and breaking the wind and those goals are achieved with today's hi-tech running apparel.
www.columbusroadrunners.org /dresssuc.htm   (847 words)

  
 Tex Winter's Sideline Triangle Basketball Offense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
When players try to shoot a lay-up with the opposite hand as the side of the basket they are on, it will most likely get blocked or they will miss because the angle is poor.
Winter breaks down the seven principles of a sound offense and how they fit into the triangle offense.
This video covers the alignment of the triangle offense, passing options, key cuts, the key spot, continuity of the offense and breaking down front line pressure.
www.hoopskills.com /coaching/texwinters.html   (154 words)

  
 NBA Coaching Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Winter will conduct public coaching clinics in Sydney and Melbourne for Australian coaches as part of a basketball development tour sponsored by the new Spalding "Infusion" Basketball that will also include a stop in New Zealand.
Winter was an assistant under Phil Jackson for six championships with the Chicago Bulls and two with the current back-to-back NBA Champion LA Lakers.
Tex Winter certainly fits that criteria and we are delighted to be able to work with the local basketball bodies to bring him to Australia."
www.nswbasketball.net.au /where_wh/21pr122.htm   (401 words)

  
 Winter Gloves-Consider these facts when buying winter gloves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is important that you choose winter gloves made of material that best suits your needs and budget.
Most of the warm winter gloves we carry are made of various Wool, Polartec® and Gore® fabrics.
Many experienced winter adventurers prefer a waterproof shell type winter glove with a warm thermal insulating glove as a liner.
outersports.com /winter_gloves_buying_guide1.html   (765 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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www.math.utah.edu:8080 /pub/tex/pub/texhax/texhax90.068   (1805 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Walton may be a perfect fit for Lakers
LONG BEACH – Tex Winter doesn't specifically mention lines and rays and intersections, but know that his is a basketball mind of supreme geometrical depth.
There is a structure to his famed triangle offense that requires precise spacing and cutting, a demand that all players understand and execute each position within the scheme, regardless of their size or athletic ability.
Winter, longtime assistant to Phil Jackson with the Bulls and Lakers, draftsman of the offense that has produced more rings than Zales might sell in a month, explains: "To succeed in the (triangle offense), you must have court savvy and understand the concepts of team basketball.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nba/20030709-9999_1s9graney.html   (850 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Trial by Basketball: The Life and Times of Tex Winter: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Known as The Master and Inventor of the triangle offense that made the Chicago Bulls a dynasty and Michael Jordan a superstar, Tex Winter is a man with a story.
Winter's coaching philosophy of discipline, hard work, fairness and individual intergrity comes alive as we watch him lead individual players to become not only the best players they can be, but also the best men that they can be.
Bender brings basketball personalities to life as we watch them struggle to learn Winter's famous "triangle offence" and to balance their individual desires for achievement and glory with Winter's emphasis on the ultimate good of the whole team.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1886110964   (715 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Winter, 76, is the father of the Chicago Bulls' triple-post offense.
Winter is in his 13th season with the Bulls and 51st in a row coaching at the Division I collegiate or professional level.
Winter literally wrote the book on the triple-post offense, a strategy that sets up three-man triangle formations from which teams run halfcourt set plays.
www.usatoday.com /sports/basketba/98play/play121.htm   (857 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Take it from Tex, the 'triangle' wins titles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Yes, the same Tex Winter who has been the offensive architect of Phil Jackson's nine NBA titles.
Actually, when it comes to the Triangle, it was Winter's college coach at Southern Cal, Sam Barry, who planted the early ideas in his player's mind about the offense.
And, it was at Kansas State, a place Winter where won eight Big 8 titles, where the Triangle first flourished.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1499926&type=feature   (2422 words)

  
 Winter's triangle offense a key to Lakers' hopes
 Winter, who more than a half-century ago began formulating a basketball strategy that eventually evolved into the triangle offense, couldn't turn down his longtime friend.
 Winter, who was born in the small Texas town of Wellington and grew up in Lubbock, has a wide variety of accomplishments in his life.
He was a Navy pilot during World War II and, at 28, became the nation's youngest major college head coach, at Marquette in 1952.
www.canoe.ca /NBAPlayoffs00/may24_win.html   (859 words)

  
 Where Are They Now: Rafael Stone, former UW point guard
Stone, right, was one of four returning UW starters in Tex Winter's first season as Huskies head coach in 1968-69.
Stone was a three-year starter for the Huskies, blossoming as a floor leader once the program brought in Fred "Tex" Winter as coach for his final two seasons.
Winter asked him to consider playing in the NBA or ABA, or join his coaching staff as an assistant.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /cbasketball/211282_where09.html   (971 words)

  
 Test of 13 cold-weather motorcycle gloves for winter riding
But it's essential that winter gloves keep you warm without sacrificing dexterity; thankfully, there are plenty of qualified choices available in this cold, cruel world.
Winter gloves should be designed to protect against impact, too.
The Winter Tek glove has premium leather with a breathable, waterproof Hipora insert and added Thinsulate thermal insulation to give you the best of both worlds.
www.motorcyclecruiser.com /accessoriesandgear/wintergloves0203   (2118 words)

  
 Building A Champion : About Us
Tex Winter is the Creator of the Triangle Offense.
He re-teamed with Phil Jackson's staff and the LA Lakers - winning 3 Championships and counting; Winter was also a member of the Bulls Championship Teams in 1991-1993 and 1996-1998.
Tex Winter is a Kansas State Basketball Legend, with 56 consecutive seasons as a coach on either Division I or in professional levels.
www.bac-video.com /active/aboutus.php   (268 words)

  
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Winter said the second O’Neal touched the ball he would have fouled him.
Then, on the ensuing inbounds pass, Winter said he would have fouled whoever caught it to put the Lakers at the line with just a few seconds left.
Worst-case scenario, Winter said, the Lakers player makes two free throws to cut the lead to one, but the Pistons would have possession.
www.wzzm13.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=27778   (489 words)

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