Re: Center solution

[Chris Sorge]

> From what I hear about Whaley, I will take my chances with him, ever if he
doesn't know the system.  Rather then Hicks, Hollman, and Johnson, any day
of the week.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "dfairchild" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:56 PM
Subject: [UC Basketball] Center solution


> I think we have to shuck our pride and get BJ back.  We will have to
choose
> which end of the court he plays - either offensive or defensive - but
since
> we are already pretty much playing 4 on 5 - 4.5 on 5 is still an
> improvement.  My prefrence is to keep him at the defensive end - no one is
> going to back him down in the post.
>
> My 2 cents. : )
>
> Darryl
>
> ps - I'm very excited about next year, but the center position will still
be
> shaky - we will have only one true center (Whaley) and he will be learning
> the system (ugh, not that again).  If he gets injured or doesn't progress
in
> Huggins' system, we are right back where we are now.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: richard l. kandell [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:36 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Extremely Terrible Game :-(
>
>
> No, obviously they are both power forwards, but the players who might be
> considered truer centers, Johnson & Holman have not shown much.
> Unfortunately when you have 2 big strong opposing guys inside Maxiell, try
> as he may defensively, is overmatched, because the 2nd guy completely
> overwhelms the cbc personnel.  Unfortunately it isn't much better on the
> offensive end, either.  This is the reason we're all trying to figure out
if
> there is anything that can be done.  Obviously Huggins and staff realize
the
> problem and are a lot more sophisticated at it then any/all of us - but
> unless they can come up with some sort of a solution this is going to be a
> tough 5-6 weeks.
>
> Richard K.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rands, William (RANDSWJ)" <address@hidden>
> To: "'DXLOVER EMAIL SERVICE '" <address@hidden>; "'UC basketball '"
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 11:11 AM
> Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Extremely Terrible Game :-(
>
>
> > i think alot of it is personnel.We don't have the personnel in the post
> that
> > we've usually have had-Blount, Scott, Long, Fortson,Brannen, Martin,
Tate,
> > Little, even Grove. Did you think of Flowers or Land as post players
> before
> > this yr?