Jihad (was re: Huggins)

[jon breiner]

Jihad is going to have to gel with his teammates the way Tony B did, and it
will take some time.  As for the players getting on Jihad (and I am not
saying they don't have a good beef!) I would ask some of them the following
question(s):

Armein, Did Jihad's gunning cause you to shoot 2 airballs and take another
3-4 bad shots?  Did his gunning cause you to not pay attention to the in
bounds pass that bounced off your chest?

Eric, did Jihad's gunning make you miss those dunks?  What about those
passes that hit your hands and bounced off?  Did his gunning cause you to
revert to last year's FT form?

Jason, did Jihad's gunning cause you to miss another dunk?  Did it cause you
to think Illinois was too physical?

James, did Jihad's gunning interfere with your ability to rebound the ball
again?

Should I stop or go on?  My point is before these guys spend too much time
worrying about how Jihad is hurting the team, maybe they could worry about
themselves first.  I think that is likely what Huggins had them talk about
after the game.

Anyway, it is only the end of the NC season.  In other words, still very
early.  I will get more concerned if there are issues a month or more from
now, but I am not going to get bent out of shape by losing to the best team
in the country at this point.

Jon



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Huggins


> In a message dated 1/3/2005 9:27:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> address@hidden writes:
>
>
> Um,  Jihad took more shots than anyone else in the Illinois game
> (2-for-12)
> and was on the receiving end of some unhappy remarks  from  teammates.
>
>
>
> I was going to post this before but I do so much negative stuff I passed.
> What it was is I noticed that players wouldn't pass Jihad the ball unless
> they
> had to after the first offensive set broke down. This was prior to the
> Illinois game. Kirkland for one wouldn't . I think the worst thing to
> happen for
> Jihad was he made those shots to win the NI game and became an instant
> star of
> the fans and it went to his head. He wants to score first and pass to his
> teammates second. Not good. Will it get worked out. I don't know.  Don