Only Statement (he took no questions):
Basically, what I want to do is just tell you I’m alive and kicking. I’m not well, mentally. I’ve had some vertigo attacks over the last 17 or 18 years. This was the first time I’ve really had one during the game. It’s called ‘benign positional vertigo.’ I’ve been diagnosed at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Kansas, The Mayo Clinic in Rochester (MN) and Chapel Hill hospital, all three. I don’t know that the doctors really care that much about me, I just think they don’t want me to die on their watch. The referee, when Isaiah was driving down, I thought Isaiah had gotten fouled, and I said something to the referee and I didn’t respond correctly to his response, because I sort of swirled around and when I whirled around, that’s when it hit. When I say benign positional vertigo, that’s exactly what it is. Every attack that I’ve had is when I jerk my head quickly, and the little, I call them rocks because my head’s full of rocks, the rocks in my middle ear, one of the pebbles gets out of the train, out of the alignment and bounces around on your inner-ear and that’s what caused this imbalance.
Our trainer had two of the pills that I take when something like that happens, and I did. I was able to throw up a little bit, I thought I’d throw really a lot, because that’s usually what happens, but I just can’t tell you how happy I am for my team and for coach Robinson. I promised them this was not ‘Hoosiers,’ I didn’t really get thrown out to see if he was tough enough. But he did a great job with C.B. and Hubert and Brad. It was a tough time sitting back there and getting replays and getting text messages. I’d made the decision that if we’d lost, I was going to get back out there, because I was going to sit there with my team. But if we won, I was going to stay out of the way. So I was off the court the last 45 seconds, just 40 or 50 feet, and I couldn’t be happier for my team, I couldn’t be happier for Steve.
Twenty-eight years ago we had a two-hour meeting, I decided I was going hire him. He’s been like a brother for me for 21 years, and if I thought it would have worked, I might have done the Hoosiers idea, but I didn’t think of it. But he’s like a brother to me and he coached his buns off tonight, and my kids played their rear end off and I was very concerned, because I didn’t want to be a distraction.
I’ll be fine, I’m not dead yet. I’ll let the guy talk to you that did the work, not me. Thank you.
Basically, what I want to do is just tell you I’m alive and kicking. I’m not well, mentally. I’ve had some vertigo attacks over the last 17 or 18 years. This was the first time I’ve really had one during the game. It’s called ‘benign positional vertigo.’ I’ve been diagnosed at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Kansas, The Mayo Clinic in Rochester (MN) and Chapel Hill hospital, all three. I don’t know that the doctors really care that much about me, I just think they don’t want me to die on their watch. The referee, when Isaiah was driving down, I thought Isaiah had gotten fouled, and I said something to the referee and I didn’t respond correctly to his response, because I sort of swirled around and when I whirled around, that’s when it hit. When I say benign positional vertigo, that’s exactly what it is. Every attack that I’ve had is when I jerk my head quickly, and the little, I call them rocks because my head’s full of rocks, the rocks in my middle ear, one of the pebbles gets out of the train, out of the alignment and bounces around on your inner-ear and that’s what caused this imbalance.
Our trainer had two of the pills that I take when something like that happens, and I did. I was able to throw up a little bit, I thought I’d throw really a lot, because that’s usually what happens, but I just can’t tell you how happy I am for my team and for coach Robinson. I promised them this was not ‘Hoosiers,’ I didn’t really get thrown out to see if he was tough enough. But he did a great job with C.B. and Hubert and Brad. It was a tough time sitting back there and getting replays and getting text messages. I’d made the decision that if we’d lost, I was going to get back out there, because I was going to sit there with my team. But if we won, I was going to stay out of the way. So I was off the court the last 45 seconds, just 40 or 50 feet, and I couldn’t be happier for my team, I couldn’t be happier for Steve.
Twenty-eight years ago we had a two-hour meeting, I decided I was going hire him. He’s been like a brother for me for 21 years, and if I thought it would have worked, I might have done the Hoosiers idea, but I didn’t think of it. But he’s like a brother to me and he coached his buns off tonight, and my kids played their rear end off and I was very concerned, because I didn’t want to be a distraction.
I’ll be fine, I’m not dead yet. I’ll let the guy talk to you that did the work, not me. Thank you.
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