New book about The Game

Normally, I can finish books like this in about four hours, but I have been taking little nibbles of this one.

After hear the author interviewed on the Tony Kornheiser Radio Show.

I still have a VHS tape of that game, that I periodically pull out and watch. If I need to remember, I’ll just watch it. The whole game, especially the 4th Q and the OT are the most riveting and special basketball you will ever see. Each team just kept going out there and doing it. Whatever “it” was at the moment that needed doing.

Of course, after Sean Woods makes that driving shot and there’s just over 2 seconds left. I turn off the tape. Most of that tape is getting worn and skips a lot, its been a couple of years since I’ve seen it – it might not even play anymore. But I bet that last pass and shot is pretty pristine because that piece of tape has almost never passed over the playback heads.

I finished it a few weeks ago and was blown away. The title, though, is a bit misleading, because the book chronicles the two teams through the three years leading up to the Elite 8 contest, not just The Game, as the title suggests.

Wojciechowski has agreed to come on Wildcat Wednesday for an interview, and when he does, I’m going to write my “review” of the book.

With that being said, I highly recommend the book to any UK fan. You’ll learn some things that went on which most fans have no idea happened during RP’s first three years. It’s about as “inside” as an author can be with a book, without living with those he’s writing about. The fact that everyone, even Eddie Sutton and The Game officials, were interviewed by the author makes the book so very interesting.