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Robert W. Hill[1] (born November 24, 1948 in Columbus, Ohio[1]) is an American basketball coach. Hill grew up in Mount Sterling, Ohio moving to Worthington, Ohio for high school. Upon graduating from high School, Hill entered Bowling Green State University. Hill is currently the head coach of the Tokyo Apache in Japan. During the summer of 2011, he was invited by Nike to help Taiwan men's basketball team as a consultant.
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Career [link]
College [link]
Bob Hill played basketball and baseball collegiately at Bowling Green State University and was also a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He attended the school during a time when college players were not eligible to join the varsity squad until their sophomore seasons; although he showed tremendous promise as a member of the freshman team, his success never really translated over to his tenure as a member of the varsity team.[1] He then became interested in coaching.
Early coaching career [link]
Hill was an assistant coach for the Kansas Jayhawks from 1979-85.
As NBA coach [link]
Hill coached the New York Knicks in 1986–87, spent three seasons as the Indiana Pacers' head coach (1990–93), and piloted the San Antonio Spurs to an NBA-best 62 wins in 1994–95 before losing to the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference finals. After a 3-15 start to the 1996–97 season, Hill was fired by one of his bosses, Gregg Popovich, who thereafter replaced Hill as the Spurs coach. Hill's firing at the time was puzzling to some and deeply angered Hill, considering his previous success and the fact that the poor start to the season was due in some part to injuries to David Robinson and Sean Elliott, the team's two best players.[2]
At Fordham University [link]
Between 1999 and 2003, Hill was head coach at Fordham University where he compiled a 36–78 record (31.6% winning %). He was let go by the Rams following the 2002–03 season after only 1 win in the Atlantic 10. The Rams finished 2–26 in 2003, the worst record in school history. Fordham paid Hill $650,000 to leave the university in a buyout agreement four years into his 10-year deal.
He took responsibility for his rocky four-year tenure there. "Fordham was my fault; I just shouldn't have done it," Hill told the New York Daily News. "I don't want to get into why," he added. "Just blame it on me."[3]
"I guess the best way to put it (is), I've had a really privileged career," Hill said. "I've been around a lot of great organizations; I've had a lot of great players. I've always had success to some degree, so I feel like I understand what it takes to do that and it just didn't work."
Asked to recount some of the missteps he made during his tenure at Fordham, Hill said that he made a mistake before the 2002–03 season in trying to bring in playground players such as Adrian Walton and Smush Parker. "We tried to bring the Rucker League to Fordham and it didn't work out," Hill said.
But Hill said he didn't have any regrets about his time in the Bronx. "It's a good school, good people, the whole thing, but I made a mistake," Hill said. "I don't really regret it," he added. "I've learned so much about what those young guys go through to try to be successful. It's hard for them." (Ian Begley)
Return to NBA [link]
On January 3, 2006 he replaced Bob Weiss as head coach of the NBA team the Seattle SuperSonics, after a lackluster 13–17 start to the 2005–06 season; he had most recently served as assistant coach for the team. He was fired as Sonics head coach on April 24, 2007.
He holds an all-time win-loss NBA coaching record of 312–293.
Personal life [link]
Hill has three sons with his wife Pam. The oldest, Cameron, is currently the Head Basketball Coach at Ursuline Academy in Dallas and is the owner if CHB, specializing in player development and team training. His second son, Chris, is the Head Basketball Coach at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, and his youngest son, Casey, is assisting for the NBA D-league Dakota Wizards.
Head coaching record [link]
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular season | G | Games coached | W | Games won | L | Games lost | W–L % | Win-loss % | |
| Post season | PG | Playoff Games | PW | Playoff Wins | PL | Playoff Losses | PW–L % | Playoff Win-loss % | |
| Team | Year | G | W | L | W–L% | Finish | PG | PW | PL | PW–L% | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYK | 1986–87 | 66 | 20 | 46 | .303 | 4th in Atlantic | — | — | — | — | Missed Playoffs |
| IND | 1990–91 | 57 | 32 | 25 | .561 | 5th in Central | 5 | 2 | 3 | .400 | Lost in First Round |
| IND | 1991–92 | 82 | 40 | 42 | .488 | 4th in Central | 3 | 0 | 3 | .000 | Lost in First Round |
| IND | 1992–93 | 82 | 41 | 41 | .500 | 5th in Central | 4 | 1 | 3 | .250 | Lost in First Round |
| SAS | 1994–95 | 82 | 62 | 20 | .756 | 1st in Midwest | 15 | 9 | 6 | .600 | Lost in Conf. Finals |
| SAS | 1995–96 | 82 | 59 | 23 | .720 | 1st in Midwest | 10 | 5 | 5 | .500 | Lost in Conf. Semifinals |
| SAS | 1996–97 | 18 | 3 | 15 | .167 | (fired) | — | — | — | — | — |
| SEA | 2005–06 | 52 | 22 | 30 | .423 | 3rd in Northwest | — | — | — | — | Missed Playoffs |
| SEA | 2006–07 | 82 | 31 | 51 | .378 | 5th in Northwest | — | — | — | — | Missed Playoffs |
| Career | 603 | 310 | 293 | .514 | 37 | 17 | 20 | .459 |
Books [link]
- Basketball: Coaching for Success (2000) ISBN 1-58518-249-4
Notes [link]
- ^ a b c The Sporting News: 1992-93 Official NBA Register. St. Louis, Missouri: The Sporting News Publishing Co. 1992.
- ^ Allen, Percy (2006-02-21). "Sonics' Hill remains baffled by Popovich's treatment - Seattle Times". seattletimes.nwsource.com. https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nba/2002818672_soni21.html. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
- ^ New York Daily News, March 13, 2007.
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Bob Hill (American football)
Robert "Bob" Haskell Hill (died December 28, 1942), aka War Horse, was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1922 season. That season he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians. The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe. Hill was a member of the Mohawks.
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Bob Hill (politician)
Frederick John Hill, known as Bob Hill, is a Jersey politician and human rights campaigner. For 18 years he was Deputy for the parish of St Martin in the States of Jersey.
Biography
Hill was born in the parish of St Martin and attended Saint Martin's Elementary School. At the age of 20, he left the island to join the Metropolitan Police in London where during 31 years of service he worked in the East End of London and Brixton. He returned to Jersey in 1991.
States of Jersey
In 2005 to 2007, Hill chaired the States of Jersey Social Affairs scrutiny panel. An inquiry by the panel into the role of centeniers in the Magistrate's Court led to the Hill's resignation as chairman over his plans to publish a legal opinion on the compatibility of practice in the Jersey court with the Convention right to a fair trial. The panel continued with the inquiry, publishing a report that quickly led to reforms in court procedures.
Hill called for the States of Jersey assembly to establish an official body to have oversight of the operation of the Human Rights (Jersey) Law 2000. When this proposal failed, Hill set up the unofficial Jersey Human Rights Group in 2009. He campaigned on other human rights issues, including prisoners' rights.
Bob Hill (footballer)
Robert "Bob" Hill (3 July 1867 – 3 October 1938) was a Scottish footballer who played primarily as a centre or inside forward.
Born in Forfar, Scotland, Hill began his football career when he was a soldier and was spotted playing for his regimental team, Black Watch. After a brief spell at Glentoran, it was Irish League rivals Linfield who bought him out of his army contract and took him on as a player. Hill spent three successful seasons with the Belfast club, winning two Irish Cup and two League Champions medals with them.
Hill arrived at Sheffield United in February 1893, scoring on his debut as a trailist and prompting United to sign him permanently. He soon established himself in United's first team and played in the 1893 test–match victory that saw them promoted to the First Division. Hill was a regular in the side for the following two seasons, but despite starting the 1895–96 season as a first–choice striker he was surprisingly transferred to Ardwick in November 1895 along with Joe Davies and Hugh Morris.
Bobby Hill
Bobby Hill or Bob Hill may refer to:
See also
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- Protest Songs: Stark Songs of Struggle and Strife released: 2012
- Songs for Political Action released: 1996
Protest Songs: Stark Songs of Struggle and Strife
Released 2012- Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
- All My Trials
- This Land Is Your Land
- Deportees
- Talking Dust Bowl
- Better Day
- Bank Failures
- Talking Union
- Uncle Sam Says
- Gallows Tree (Gallows Pole)
- This Little Light of Mine
- Black and White
- 1913 Massacre
- How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
- Black, Brown and White
- Pity the Downtrodden Landlord
- Talking Sailor
- U.A.W. - C.I.O.
- We've Got a Plan
- Soup Song
- Sad News From Korea
- Last Dime Blues
- Please See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
- Wars of Germany
- Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
Songs for Political Action
Released 1996- The Boll Weevil
- Patriotic Diggers
- London's Bridge Is Falling Down
- Risselty Rosselty
- Old Grey Mare
- Hands
- Ragged Hungry Blues, Part 1
- Ragged Hungry Blues, Part 2
- I'm Going to Organize, Baby Mine
- I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
- Raggedy, Raggedy
- No More Mourning
- Join the Union Tonight
- We're Going to Roll the Union On
- There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land
- Farmer's Letter to the President
- Farm Relief Blues
- 11 Cent Cotton, 40 Cent Meat
- The Hootenanny Song
- Bank Failures
- The Rich Man and the Poor Man
- The Poor Forgotten Man
- The Soup Song
- The Internationale
- Rise Up (Comintern)
- United Front
- Forward, We've Not Forgotten
- In Praise of Learning
- On the Picket Line
- Hold the Fort
- Casey Jones
- Sit Down
- Write Me Out My Union Card
- We Shall Not Be Moved
- Join the Union
- Solidarity Forever
