Some of ya’ll may recall that I predicted at the end of last season that…
“…. if Anthony stays at State with GOTT & Company for four years…
he will be 1st Team ALL ACC his Senior year.”
I stand by that prediction….
Here’s the thing… There is a helluva big difference between a “1 or Scoring Guard ” and a “Point Guard”…
The “1 Guard” is your Number One scoring option from the perimeter, on the fast break and driving off of set plays.
The “Point Guard” is your Coach on the Floor, a Team Leader and a distributor that get’s the ball to right guy in the right place and at the right time… which sometimes includes himself…
Now Anthony has played the 1 Guard since Junior High School… He learning, but he’s still GOTT a lot to learn and practice until he forgets, about playing Point Guard… and he’s only seven games into his second season… By all accounts, he’s working on the things he needs to work on during the off-season and in practice… and it’s easy to see his progress in the games we played…so I don’t hesitate to ‘re-up’ on my prediction.
What he needs to do now is to “translate” all that hard work into the game situations and trust his teammates… Bottom line is he just needs to play some games… Some things just cannot be duplicated in practice.
What we saw last season was … “Me First Cat”…
What we have seen so far this season is … “Sharing Cat” …
We’re about half way to seeing … “Leader Cat”…
For those that like numbers… watch for this…
“Leader Cat” stat line…
Points – 10-14
Assists – 5-6
Turnovers 2-3
Steals 2-4
Rebounds – 3-5
Free Throws 80%
— THREE games in a row —
AND Somebody else on the TEAM has more numbers that he does in every category except maybe Assists and Steals….
I think we might see that by the end of the this season…. and we’ll have us an ALL Conference POINT Guard.
In the meantime, it’s a lot of “fun” watching your kids grow up!
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Nobody else has mentioned this…
Our radio guys…. Tony and Gary jumped on this post game… They said… ” Cat and Lacy both were “fatigued” the last ten minutes of the game… When asked, Coach mumbled something to the effect but did not dwell on it…”yeah… they were a little ‘tired’…
Now I know they in pretty good shape – physically, which causes me to think that they only could have referring to “mental fatigue”..
Lacy has played seven games in the ACC… I don’t care what they say… it’s different here from the SEC … even when you’re playing the Sisters of Saint Francis preseason game…
The ‘mental fatigue’ thing is something they both GOTT to get a handle on… and hopefully by the first of January and definitely before we go play in Cameron or the Dome..
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For the rest of the squad…I like that fact that we see different guys stepping up on different nights… Each of them.. has definite strengths and definite weaknesses- all of which you guys have named above. Our Depth will win us 3-4 games this season that we otherwise would have lost. By mid season … we’ll see two guys stepping up every night.
I think we’re watching a TEAM that wins 25 this season…. unless we have a couple of serious injuries or the wheels just fall off and they go on a 0-5 streak. They just GOTT to be like the old Celtics which respect to that.
