For all the great things Hall of Fame coach Eddie Sutton did, one of the greatest was not doing what he intended.
What the former Arkansas coach thought of doing would have been comparable to tinkering with the Mona Lisa.
Sutton was going to alter Marvin Delph’s shot!
Fortunately, the best shooter by far of Sutton’s fabled Triplets — who recently joined fellow Triplets Sidney Moncrief and Ron Brewer in the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame — stuck to his guns in his charmingly laconic way. Even noted stickler Sutton couldn’t resist.
“My freshman year, I had to remind him, ‘Hey, Coach, why would you want to change my shot when it’s going in?