Dillon Brooks said Coach K told him in handshake line, "I'm too good of a player to be showing off at the end." Brooks: "He's right."
— Pete Thamel (@SIPeteThamel) March 25, 2016
More Brooks: "I have to respect Duke and got to respect them. I have to learn from those things."
— Pete Thamel (@SIPeteThamel) March 25, 2016
Alright, so that's…whatever. It's a little strange for another coach to go telling some other school's player how he should or shouldn't behave, but Coach K is Coach K and he'll do shit like that. Players probably respect the hell out of him, too, because he's a legendary coach. You can see Brooks is genuinely apologetic about the whole thing. Coach K being Coach K, though, he didn't own up to chiding Brooks.Brooks final quote on Coach K: "At the same time, that's my fire, that's my passion. I'm going to take in what he said and keep doing me."
— Pete Thamel (@SIPeteThamel) March 25, 2016
Coach K, on what he said to Brooks: "I just congratulated him."
— Austin Meek (@austinmeekRG) March 25, 2016
Look, I don't know why Dillon Brooks would make up a story like that, and in the process concede that the scolding opposing coach was correct, but all this really means is that Duke and Coach K are extra salty about the loss and that's really the important thing.[TBS]Someone pressed K specifically on whether he said something to Brooks about celebrating. "I didn't say that."
— Austin Meek (@austinmeekRG) March 25, 2016