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Duke’s Christian Laettner launches a shot against UCLAObviously, Mike Krzyzewski is a brilliant coach, arguably the best of all time. But he’s not just a guy who rolls the ball out and counts the victories. A lot goes into his success.

One of the things we’ve always appreciated about Mike Krzyzewski is hearing him away from the court, where he’s focused on competing and winning.

Away from it, his habit of needling people (mostly gently) aside, he’s a quiet and thoughtful man who thinks unconventionally. It’s one of the great paradoxes of his life: a product of West Point, with lessons he cherishes to this day, he rejected thoughtless rigidity he encountered there and uses the discipline he…