RE: Whaley

[Mick Bergman]

Plus, as many have discovered, you learn to play defense for Huggins
before you learn to play offense. If you can't go out there and shut
down your man, you won't be playing on the floor to score. Due to the
fact that Whaley had no clue how to play defense, he didn't get on the
floor much last year, and won't this year. It is pretty simple to be on
Huggins good side... work hard and play sound DEFENSE! Unfortunately,
Whaley didn't seem to understand either of those parts of his game...

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Pfeiffer [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:05 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Whaley

I could have sworn that we saw Big rob do exactly that. He always took
the
12-15 foot jumper (*well more like fade aways) and miss them.Whaley is
not a
Dirk Nowitski type. He doesn't have the build nor mobility to play that
type
of game, except maybe in his mind. Also I am sure that Huggins explained
to
Whaley when he recruited him that he will need to play inside and
rebound.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Iroq Gathing" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:49 AM
Subject: [UC Basketball] Whaley


> To all of you who do not know Big Rob personally.  Whaley is a
superstar
player that has gotten a bad rap.  He has personal problems stemming
from
his background, as well as responsibility issues also stemming from his
background.Things that can be cured with understanding and real
coaching.
Coaching is not a one size fits all job.  Huggins every year builds a
team
around troubled players that have talent, but have problems consistently
working hard.  And every year his best players quit, and then come back
their senior year to succeed.  Why?  Because Huggs let them play, and
these
players understand its their last chance to succeed.
> Big Rob is different because Huggins is trying to teach him the wrong
thing. I recall Huggins saying "anyone 6'11 better be rebuilding as a
main
objective".  This is not true, Dirk, Odom, Walker, Bender, Rasheed
Wallace,
etc. all are score first big men who get around to rebounding as they
get
into the game.  HUGGINS WILL NEVER WIN A TITLE!!!! until he learns to
draw
up a game plan utilizing his teams strengths.  Big Rob is a great
scorer,
and will be a dominant scorer in an offense designed for him.  Big Rob
has
consistently been a good rebounder throughout his career, if he's given
the
opportunity to just play.  Besides the Bearcats do not need another
dominant
rebounder; they have Maxiell and Hicks for that job.  They do not need
another 3-point threat or true-point guard.  They not need an athletic
slasher, James got that covered.  BEARCATS NEED A BIG TIME SCORER IN THE
POST AND 16 FEET FROM THE BASKET.  Big Rob can do that with his eyes
closed,
but not in Huggins curren!
>  t offense
>  (with guards jacking up threes all willy-nilly).  A basic pick and
roll a
perfect for the talent on Huggins team, with the ball going through Big
Rob.
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