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Bulls coach Billy Donovan with only fond memories of Bobby Knight

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Billy Donovan talks Bobby Knight, and the relationship he had with the coaching legend.

DALLAS – Billy Donovan was an assistant coach at Kentucky when the Wildcats would have their annual run-in with Bobby Knight’s Hoosier teams.

“It was always hard guarding all that motion stuff when they ran it because there was really no way to scout it,’’ the Bulls coach recalled on Wednesday. “I think that’s where he probably branded what Indiana basketball was, was all that motion offense and the way they played the game. They were probably one of the first to do it, and he was obviously great at teaching it because a lot of teams couldn’t play that way.