My coach and I — I call Red Auerbach “my coach” — his background was math. We used to talk all the time about the game and life and things, but mostly equations. When you think about the game of basketball, it’s played in a cube. There are boundaries: floor and ceiling, left, right, back and forth. And the other confinement is time. So what you do within those boundaries with the allotted amount of time is where the game is. And first of all, I never approached the game with a preconceived notion. Now there may be some things I learned, but I wouldn’t take anybody’s word for it. They’d say, “He’s gonna do this.” I could not take anybody’s word for that, because first of all in that level there are no “one size fits all” and there’s no silver bullet. And so in college I was — mostly I was self taught, basically. One time I was playing a game against Stanford and one of their guards stole the ball and started down to shoot a lay-up. And I was the only one who could catch him. I was the only one in the building that knew that! So I was behind him, and after I was sure that I could catch him — he’s going down the right side — I took a giant step to the left, and then continued. And the reason I took it to the left, if I went right behind him and blocked the shot I’d probably hit him and that’s a foul and there’s no accomplishment. But if I took a step to the left when I got to him, there was an angle, so I had a choice to either go in front or behind. And I got there, I knocked the ball into the backboard and then he got the rebound and went back the other way. And I got to know him after we got to playing, and he said he never figured out where I came from, but it was actually quite routine.