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TOPIC: A rebuilding year??? |
| top of the key
January 15, 2006
7:37:20 PM
Entry #: 1225436
| I've heard that Sibbitt is calling this year a rebuilding year; how could that be when all 5 starts aswell as the first player of the bench are all seniors? How is the program ever going to rebuild if there are always 6 seniors on the team??
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| Shizz
January 17, 2006
5:01:36 PM
Entry #: 1228317
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Too me a rebuilding year is the year after a great team or great players graduate (examples 1994-1995 season, 2002-2003 season). I think what this team lacks is setting a goal amnd accomplishing a goal. I also think why this team may sttuggle shooting is they are so hard on theirselves about wanting to shoot well that it becomes a mental thing. When I say mental I mean that the more they try to shoot and if they miss they get too hard on theirselves.
Shiz
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| top of the key
January 18, 2006
11:11:52 AM
Entry #: 1229540
| I think that you are right about the team having trouble shooting because of a mental block. These things happen on all levels of basketball ie: Kentucky Wildcats. However, I also think that one of the reasons the team is having trouble shooting is because coming into the season the team as a whole was very very inexpereienced in varsity basketball, which brings me back to my original point in that last year the rams had 6 seniors, this year the rams have 7 seniors; how are young players ever going to get experience and build confidence at the varsity level if they're playing time is taken by upperclassmen who won't be around next season.
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| Shizz
January 18, 2006
11:55:37 PM
Entry #: 1230948
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A young team ususally equals a scrappy team. The way things are going now you have 2 underclassmen playing little minutes in Lankford and Crecelius. At some point you have to get a rotation in. These players have experience but not on the varsity level but they still have experience. Too me it comes down to is the coach going after a "win now" mentality or is he trying to improve in decades and not years?
Shiz
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| top of the key
January 19, 2006
10:31:48 AM
Entry #: 1231332
| If Sibbitt is going for a win now mentality then why would he state that this year is a rebuilding year. It looks to me as if he doesn't have a plan for the future, he is playing 6 seniors and the team is still losing so why not go ahead and mix in a few of the underclassmen and maybe by tourny time in March there are 9 guys who can step in and play big minutes and score. This idea is something that coach Brown is always doing. He may be playing 6 players the first 3 or 4 games of the season but slowly you see 9 or 10 players scoring and contributing big plays down the stretch in games. The idea that coach Brown uses is that he may lose a game or two in the regular season because he's not playing he best players every minute of the game but the more the younger players play the more confidence they get and when the tourny rolls around you have a bunch of players with the confidence to make plays in big games. Just read some of the quotes from Coach Brown in the newspaper, it is evident he has a plan from the beginning of the season all the way through March.
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| Shizz
January 19, 2006
9:22:05 PM
Entry #: 1232624
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It's the philosophy of two coaches. Coach Brown is setting up for the future by playing freshmen at diferent points. This is what gets me about the boys almost every person on the boys barsity team is new to the team so why not get all those people some minutes? It's like building a house you have to lay the foundation before you build the house. I don't get why you woudl want to start inexpierence every year?
Shiz
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