rye…
I don’t disagree at all…
except to say that in the long run … if Lacy wants to be a Coach, the best position on the court he could play would be at the Point… which is not to forget that plenty of good coaches played other positions…
Either way, there’s nothing readily apparent holding him back in regards to a long future in Coaching after he is finished playing…
As much as we here at SFN have fussed about the lack of BB-IQ / Court=Sense on the last several teams, Lacy appears to have more of that than any two guys on any of those teams…
And the proof of your thinking that he wants to win more than score… I think is revealed best in the few glimpses we have seen of his ‘temper’… He and Hess had a moment together Saturday night after that out of bounds call in the fourth quarter… and if you noticed what he said to Hess after the Technical was totally different than what he said to Coach Gott during the Timeout that followed…
In the previous game he got in a little scuffle whereupon words were exchanged… after the clock started, he GOTT the ball, drove to the rim, and tried to put both the ball and his ‘mouthy’ defender in the basket at the same time… the ball went in, but the defender’s mouth was a little too big to fit… nevertheless Lacy had made his #STATEment…
Moments like these, tell us a lot about who Lacy the ballplayer really is… Kid’s got some fire in his belly… but plays with a whole lot of control… both of which are good.
As beej likes to say… “Anthony carries a switchblade”… but Lacy has the knockout punch.
All of which leads me to believe that will come on around by the end of the month.
Anya’s “enthusiasm”, on the other hand, is more problematic… and finding a ‘solution’ is just as important to the success of this Team as smoothing out things in the backcourt.
Coach knows what to do… we’ll see.
