WASHINGTON — Patrick Ewing does not stalk the sideline as much as he looms over it.
No longer the lithe 7-footer who dominated the paint and beyond for much of his 15 seasons with the Knicks in a 17-year, Hall of Fame N.B.A. career, he now strikes a pose as a 55-year-old rookie head coach that is visually not unlike that of John Thompson, who recruited Ewing to Georgetown in 1981 and advised him to return last spring as a replacement for Thompson’s son, John III.
Much like the elder Thompson, Ewing is a bespectacled bear of a man.