I heard him say it himself. I don't know if you remember Malcolm Mackey, he was the starting center on that "Lethal Weapon" team. He was a classmate of mine and I went to visit him at his dorm when he played with Anderson at Gtech and Kenny was there and he mentioned how John Thompson didn't seem to show much interest in him when he was coming out of high school and was regarded as the consensus no.#1 player in the country, and not because he had a rep of being a problem kid but moreso because of the reputation of NY city players, point guards in particular, who have always had a reputation of being flashy players. And that was the opposite of what Coach Thompson looked for in his point guards.


>The story is that during a visit to the campus he was given a
>reading test and basically said, "Fuck this."
>
>Around the same time, Kenny Anderson was apparently all about
>Georgetown but Thompson didn't really like him.
>
>Edit (SI Link for Anderson):
>
>"Georgetown had been Anderson's first choice, but when coach
>John Thompson failed to pay a personal visit to Anderson's
>home, Anderson ruled out the Hoyas."
>
>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1123082/2/index.htm
>
>Some people blamed Thompson's lack of personal attention to
>his commitment to the Olympics.