RE: RE: Non-conference report card

[dfairchild]

Keith,

I think you are too harsh on the front court.  The lack of depth should not
be factored into their grade for the first part of the season.  The back
court has played well.  Hicks, after a slow start, has been tremendous.  And
even during the slow start was effective in other ways.  With McGowan out
for most of the LSU game, they found a way to hold their own!.  Kirkland has
been willing to give minutes in the front court.

So, I would give them a B+ for the first part of the season.

I would add a few other categories -
Rebounding - C-
(Do you realize that Steve Logan avg. 3.1 rebounds a game his senior year -
don't you think we could get more than 3.5 out of Kirkland?)

Senior Leadership - A+

Free Throws - A+

Go Cats!
DF
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Keith Wedinger [mailto:address@hidden
  Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:31 PM
  To: address@hidden
  Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] RE: Non-conference report card


  I will grant you Ivan Johnson.  I am not so sure about Coleman.  Herrera
had nothing to do with the coaching situation and would be unavailable
regardless.


  On 1/3/06, Bart Neeb -ELMOS-NA- <address@hidden> wrote:
    I would give AK an A. An A+ had we not lost to UD at HOME. Still an
impressive job. I hope he gets a chance to coach somewhere next year.

    Please note that "if Huggins was coaching" UC would still have AK on the
bench, Ivan Johnson, and possibly both Coleman (likely) and Herrera (long
shot) available to play. Plus more fan support. But I'm not bitter...

    /Bart
    UC '91

    =====


    From: Keith Wedinger
    Date: 03 Jan 2006 - 10:29 AM EST

    Coaching: A+
    Andy Kennedy has done a fantastic job in very adverse conditions. He has
    done a great job of maximizing this teams' strengths (perimeter play and
    good shooting) while minimizing the weaknesses (post play). He has done
    this with one less assistant than most teams and only nine scholarship
    players. Please refrain from "but if Huggins was coaching, we would be
    undefeated" replies. I seriously doubt that Huggins could have done much
    better than 11 - 2 with the current staff and players.

    Guard Play: A
    Devon Downey is even better than advertised. He is one of the early
front
    runners for Big East frosh of the year. James White has elevated his
game
    to a new level and is now the goto guy. Outside shooting has been
generally
    good. Free throw shooting has been especially good (it is nice to have
    guards who can draw fouls and then, make their FTs). This year's team is
    very much a guard oriented team (how often have we said this in recent
    years). The guards must continue to play well if UC is to be successful
in
    the Big East. This team is going to live and die by its guard play.

    Post Play: C+
    This grade is largely due to the lack of depth in this position. Eric
Hicks
    has played very well. Cedric McGowan is provided valuable minutes. After
    that, UC has little to offer. Here's hoping that Ronald Allen can
provide
    some more time as the season progresses. Fortunately, UC's guard play
will
    generally hide this deficiency.

    Fan Support: D+
    No surprise here and there is no need to go into why this is (Lord know
this
    has been beaten to death and back on this forum). I think this will
    continue to improve as UC continues to win. Over 9,000 came out for NC
A&T.

    --
    Keith Wedinger
    Bearcatnews.com
    Sciotofootball.com





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