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Date Posted: Sunday, February 22, 11:51:49am
Author: Sludge
Subject: Re: Down 2 @ half
In reply to: Trainer 's message, "Re: Down 2 @ half" on Sunday, February 22, 02:53:37am

Don't think I'm being overly critical of Brandon. Just suggesting a more balanced appraisal of his stengths and weaknesses. Doubt he will ever develop into a good shooter or scorer, but he must learn better how to run an offense. Penetration, kick outs, getting the ball at the right time to the shooter, all are skills that he must improve upon. Too much time is being spent at the start of a set not looking for an advantage, an offensive opportuntiy. On the other side, he does well in man defense. With time he will gain also in position and help defense.

Like you, I think the squad had shown great progress in the last eight to ten games. What I think we're seeing is a group of kids working much better together. Finally absorbing more of what is being taught, learning better their roles and, with this realization, gaining confidence in what they are capable of doing. Brandon will grow with this. As you probably are familiar, he has great support in Juanita, and good friends like Erik.

Development may never come as fast as we would like but, what is most encouraging, is that it is now something that we can clearly observed.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Down 2 @ half -- Trainer, Sunday, February 22, 01:03:54pm [1]

Just a few words,No one ever said that you were being critical of the kid, in fact the original blog was just my assestment of the kids game which was in response to someone else assestment. Posistion and help defense are probably some of his strongest assest, in fact he has a habit of over playing help defense but he's usually able to get back to his man,however you have to have an understanding of the game to comprehend this .In addition to the two support system that you mentioned, he does have additional family, friends and resources that have been in basketball for years. So your comments WELL COACH- lets stick to the basketball


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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Down 2 @ half -- Sludge, Sunday, February 22, 02:04:14pm [1]

Agree. Just one final note. I pointed out positioning and help defense as one of criticisms of the last game. Youngstown got off a few too many uncontested 3's. On several occasions, our guards were getting picked or failed to anticipate and switch when a screen was developing. Sometimes hard to cite or call out any one individual for this.

Again, the team is making progress and, those that have been critical should at least acknowledge that the kids are now buying into and absorbing what the staff is teaching. This is particularly satisfying to me since, as you might be aware, I proudly bear and own the colors of board apologist.


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