Re: NBA Talent

[Michael Ryan]

*". . . ever since Kenyon's senior year, we have had trouble keeping a full
roster. Donald getting kicked off. Flowers leaving. Hubbard basically never
playing, same with Derek Hollman. All of this year's troubles. Banks. . . .
"*
 Players make choices that a coach can not always control.
Other players make decisions with the coach's support and knowledge.
Many teams have this happen.
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Mike Ryan

 On 11/3/05, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
>   I also noticed that from the 2003-2004 team, we had 3 players who have
> been in the NBA (Bobbit, Whaley, and Maxiell) with potentially 3 more
> (Hicks, Kirkland, and White). Other than traditional powerhouses like Duke,
> NC, Arizona, etc., most schools never have that much talent. Add Nick
> Williams, Chadd, the role play of Kareem, Field Williams, etc. and that's a
> solid ass team with tons of talent. We should have been a lot better than we
> were? We always choked at bigs games (recently we do most of the time). I
> have always and still am a loyal Huggins supporter, but do you think AK or
> other coaches could have done more with this talent? Maybe not, maybe
> Huggins is the reason they got as good as they did. ( i.e.-Huggs molded
> Maxiell, got through mentally to Bobbit, and improved Nick Williams a ton
> last year). But it seems he had trouble tapping the talent of James, Armein,
> etc.
>  Also, ever since Kenyon's senior year, we have had trouble keeping a full
> roster. Donald getting kicked off. Flowers leaving. Hubbard basically never
> playing, same with Derek Hollman. All of this year's troubles. Banks. Giving
> huge roles to walk ons like Lucas, Crawford, even Antwan Peek. It would be
> nice to have a full roster of scholarship players to practice with and learn
> the system (for 3-4 years).
>  Any thoughts?