RE: Will we score 50 points?

[Andy LaCombe]

This is like the transistion from Max's Freshman to Sophomore years when he
had different expectations on him.  He no longer had anyone to cover his
back.  People thought he was playing worse.  It was not an effort or talent
thing, but more of a situation where teams were now keying on him.  Any team
can do a decent team of taking away one player.  So Max had not played in
the that situation before and it hurt his output.  

Now multiply that times 7 and you have this year's team.  Can they get it
going?  Hell yes, but it will take time and cooperation from the players.
If they are not willing to be coached, they will not improve as much as they
would if they listen and apply what the coaches tell them.

They are kids and they will not listen to you until they are absolutely
proved wrong.  Any parent knows this is most often the case.  Once they
learn that history can HELP them learn from others knowledge and mistakes,
then the progress begins.  I think it will begin to sink in this week.  The
DePaul game will be the first glimpse.

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Will we score 50 points?

 
In a message dated 1/1/2005 10:32:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
address@hidden writes:

Don,  what I meant by that was that they had not been "the man" on  "this"
team.  Sure they have played basketball and have played point  guard or
wherever, but someone like Chad Moore has not been responsible for  UC's
team at the point before.  Neither has Muhammad.  Hicks did  not see much of
the court before.  Kirkland and White are also making  big strides in
realizing that they cannot take plays off or they hurt the  team.



I can understand what you are getting at but the fact is Max, White, Moore,
Hicks,and Kirkland all played LAST year against Illinois. I knew they were
subject to a blowout against Illinois but there was no excuse for the way it
happened. I thought if Illinois got ungodly hot and hit a ton of 3s early
they could blow out UC but that didn't happen. Instead UC played about as
bad as they  possibly could and still got blew out. Don