The “true” point guard thing isn’t much of an issue… Having a leader on the court is… That leader is not made by any coach.
The way I’m seeing it…
1. When the other teams scores … Anthony gets the inbounds pass, brings the ball up and runs the halfcourt offense..
2. When we get a rebound (nobody laugh or you’ll miss something) … The ball goes to Anthony or Lacey whichever is on that side of the court… More times lately than not.. that’s Lacey and he brings the ball across halfcourt and starts the offense .. and this is when our results seem to be best… plus Cat on the Wing on the fast break when Lacey has to be guarded is our best play by far..
3. When there’s a press… we GOTT problems… if we even get across halfcourt… the ball could be in anybody’s hands and has to find it’s way to either Anthony or Lacey to start the set play… and that’s when we get the worst results… even when we broke the press…
Mr. Dog is right …. “Point Guard” is mostly just a title… the way the rotations should work… once the first pass is made… the guys some be more or less equal parts in the equation…
But there is a difference… let’s say it takes 10 seconds to get up the floor, hold up one finger or two and start the play…
the next five seconds are absolutely critical… if anyone is sluggish, distracted, makes a wrong move or is hesitant in making that first pass… the whole play snowballs into a mess… then by the time we reorganize our “options” are limited…
The guy who starts the play has GOTT to know exactly what he wants to do and do exactly that… that’s leadership..
To some extent maybe that is what Mr. Dog means by “leader”… I wouldn’t dare presume to put words in one who is knowledgeable about basketball as Mr. Dog… but I think, “leader” can man a lot more…. as in the case of KW in the second half against LT or Richard Howell… his entire Senior years on the boards..
Leadership can come from any position on the floor and it is possible to have more than one “leader” on the court at one time…
And I might as well add… you can’t have “leaders” without “followers”…
We have seen glimpses of ‘leadership’ this season… in some games… In some games, we have not seen anything…
This is what they GOTT to work out… we sure as hell can’t do it from the keyboard…
When they get this ‘leadership’ thing worked out… we have enough good pieces to put several successful combinations on the floor… but the combinations won’t be right until the leadership is right…
Coach seems to looking for the right combinations – the right starting five so to speak… that’s what we see… but what he’s really doing is looking for that Tall Leader Person… and waiting for some other guys to decide they will be followers…
And as he said last night… he and them should have figured all this out weeks ago… and he’s more pissed off than some posters here… ’cause he ain’t figured it out yet…
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Now what’s really GOTT my attention is this…
and I don’t really want to jinx it by talking about much… just want to know if anybody is seeing and thinking what I’m seeing and thinking…
Yesterday was totally mucked up before the game even started… let’s just say the kids did not “come out right”… and leave it at that and not call any kid’s name… OK?
If they all ‘come out right’ the next game (Sat?) … then in my book, whatever happened yesterday didn’t happen at all…
But if all of the kids don’t “come out right” Next Game… then it’s Official… “I’m worried about the season “…
