Sports Poets Society

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-06-sp-13578-story.html BY THOMAS BONKJAN. 6, 1986 12 AM PT TIMES STAFF WRITER ‘A lot of people don’t know me.  Well, it’s not my business to make sure they know me.  This is my personality,  and people or coaches or whoever are just going to have to adjust to it.  You’re not going to change me.  I won’t be somebody I don’t really want to be.  For that reason, I guess I am misunderstood.'    --ADRIAN DANTLEY Watch Adrian Dantley for very long and you will see him score a lot of points. That is guaranteed. He will also shoot a lot of free throws, that is also guaranteed. Now study Adrian Dantley when he shoots a free throw. He uses the very same motion that he employed at DeMatha High School when he was the top prep player in the country. At one time, you could read Dantley’s lips when he stood at the free-throw line, although he has changed as he has grown older and only speaks these words to himself now: Backspin. Over the rim. Follow