Phil Jasner: Coaching friends shared last laughs with Daly

"He would tell us we could come in to practice and get it done in 45 minutes or we could drag it out and the only thing it would make him late for was a tee time," Mahorn said. "I remember one year we were in Boston, an important game, nasty little locker room, one shower head that worked. [Assistant coach] Brendan Suhr put the scouting report on the blackboard and we were looking at it, getting ready.

"Chuck came in, grabbed a towel, erased the whole board and said, 'Y'all know what you need to do. Go do it.' "

Did the Pistons win?

"We did," Mahorn said. "Remember, it was an important game."

And that gathering of coaches in Jupiter a month ago still resonates with Weinhauer.

"We were there, with Terry, with a neighbor of the Dalys, with a priest I only knew as Father Paddy," Weinhauer said. "We were leaving when Terry said she had asked Father Paddy to sing a song for Chuck. He sang 'Danny Boy,' with a voice so good he could have been on Broadway. And then he kissed Chuck on the forehead and said goodbye, that he'd see him soon." *

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