Remembering Dick Harter

I had never heard of Dick Harter before he died last week, but Keith Langlois of Pistons.com wrote a great remembrance of the former Pistons assistant coach:

"But all the defensive scheming Harter did – and he was at the forefront of the techniques today taken for granted in complex hybrid defenses and multiple ways of defending the pick and roll – was secondary to his ability to draw out toughness in his teams.“Dick believed in physical basketball,” Blaha said. “One of his great statements was, ‘If a guy is hot, show him the lights’ – meaning put him on his back and he’s looking straight up, then you can get him thinking about something other than his jump shot. The Bad Boys were born out of all three of those gentlemen – Jack and Chuck and Dick – but of the three, nobody believed in physical basketball as much as Dick did.”"