Arizona's second-year men's basketball coach 'has the ability to see not just the big picture, but the entire picture.'
Greg Hansen Tommy Lloyd was enjoying lunch on the outdoor patio at a midtown restaurant last spring when a man walked by with his 4-year-old son. Lloyd noticed the boy was wearing an Arizona T-shirt.
People are also reading… Lloyd is 48, the age at which Lute Olson became Arizona’s basketball coach in 1983. I asked Lloyd about that coincidence a few months ago and he said:"let’s not go there." Instead, he phoned Steve Robinson, who had spent 28 years as Roy Williams’ assistant at Kansas and North Carolina, and another decade as a head coach at Florida State and Tulsa. Lloyd sought excellence, not compliance."What impressed me — what impresses me — is Tommy’s competitive fire," says Robinson, 64, who has been part of three national championship teams."He has the ability to see not just the big picture, but the entire picture.
I recently asked Arizona junior center Oumar Ballo if Lloyd has a hidden side that the public doesn’t see at practices or in the locker room.
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