Krystkowiak on Huse and Tinkle.
Fawkward. It means more than just awkward, or f***in' awkward.Tonight may be a little fawkward for the Griz as they face off against the Cats, coached by former Griz assistant Brad Huse. There are articles on the idea of facing a former friend here and here so I'm not going to go too in depth on that issue.
Instead, here's what former head coach Larry Krystkowiak had to say about these two coaches.
LK on Huse:
“I have a tremendous amount of respect for him, what he's gone through and how he goes about his business,” Krystkowiak said. “He's one of those people you can tell he's constantly observing and assessing. He's not full of a lot of talk. Ask Brad about a team and he wasn't going to overwhelm you with 10 bullet points. He'd have it narrowed down to two, maybe three things. With as many things as you have on your plate as a head coach, that was valuable to me.LK on Tinkle:
“He gets the big picture.”
“He'd probably be the first to tell you we had a good cop-bad cop thing going on,” Krystkowiak said. “I didn't have to be a nice guy. A certain amount of fear has to be instilled in the players. Wayne will differ from me in that way, but he may actually harden over time. I don't know too many head coaches who are good cops.I overheard someone at the bowling alley last night talking about Tinks and LK and they were saying what I'm kind of thinking after seeing this. Maybe Tinkle is still too much of a "good cop" and needs to learn how to get in his players heads.
“That's the way I did it, but just because I did it that way doesn't make it right. He could probably do a great job being a nice guy too.”
Tinkle is just starting and deserves some patience but he needs to pull it all together soon if the Griz want to make a run into the tournament again.