these Warlick quotes from a year ago were very telling

[vol1981]

How do McD AAs all of a sudden not know how to shoot ?

This could possibly be the question of the year.
(decade? century?)

 

[LVJeff]

How do McD AAs all of a sudden not know how to shoot ?

This could possibly be the question of the year.
(decade? century?)

There is no mystery. Shooting is an acquired skill. You work at, you practice it, and you'll get better at it. You don't work at it, you don't practice it, then you get worse at it. In the OP's message, the head coach was quoted as saying she doesn't care if they hit a shot and and they don't practice it: "I don't care if they hit a three; I don't care if they hit a shot,". "All I care about is getting down and playing defense." "We haven't spent a lot of time shooting the basketball...". "...we haven't been doing a lot of shooting in practice."

There is no mystery. The head coach doesn't care, puts no emphasis on it, doesn't practice it. This is why they can't shoot.

 

[madtownvol]

There is no mystery. Shooting is an acquired skill. You work at, you practice it, and you'll get better at it. You don't work at it, you don't practice it, then you get worse at it. In the OP's message, the head coach was quoted as saying she doesn't care if they hit a shot and and they don't practice it: "I don't care if they hit a three; I don't care if they hit a shot,". "All I care about is getting down and playing defense." "We haven't spent a lot of time shooting the basketball...". "...we haven't been doing a lot of shooting in practice."

There is no mystery. The head coach doesn't care, puts no emphasis on it, doesn't practice it. This is why they can't shoot.

There is a little bit of mystery. NCAA place restrictions on many contact hours coaches can have with players. So practice time is at premium. Usually this time is devoted to team-based drills (working through offensive and defensive sets) with a small window (if any) to work practice skills in a concentrated way.

So, players have to find time between classes and official practices to work on their shots other skills, and also do the requisite strength training, etc. That investment in becoming a quality player takes a lot of time management and dedication. I don't know but I suspect that may be where some of the deficiencies lie. Getting in the extra work is the player responsibility but you can also question of the team culture is one where such investments are seen as being necessary.

 

[LVJeff]

There is a little bit of mystery. NCAA place restrictions on many contact hours coaches can have with players. So practice time is at premium. Usually this time is devoted to team-based drills (working through offensive and defensive sets) with a small window (if any) to work practice skills in a concentrated way.

So, players have to find time between classes and official practices to work on their shots other skills, and also do the requisite strength training, etc. That investment in becoming a quality player takes a lot of time management and dedication. I don't know but I suspect that may be where some of the deficiencies lie. Getting in the extra work is the player responsibility but you can also question of the team culture is one where such investments are seen as being necessary.

If your boss told you she didn't care about something and wasn't interested in it and further told you that you wouldn't get any credit for doing it on your own time, would you do it on your own time? I sure wouldn't.

 

[Kaida71]

The Guards mid range game is very embarrassing!!!! If you can't make those shots consistently .. why in the world would you think shooting three's would be any better. It's not that they miss these shots but how badly they miss these shots ..airballs hitting the side of the basket... and you only like 10 feet or less away from the basket.... I really don't understand..... why did you go to Italy? The only person I know that was hurting was Diamond.. Everyone else other than the freshmen should already have chemistry together.. You spent the whole freaking summer together you let the same 5 players practice together all off season....You are STILL trying to Gel... Miss me with that reasoning...


Also if you noticed Two years in a row you had players benched for disciplinary actions.. because they violated something.. Now don't know if this happen a lot under Pat but it is now... This is your first sign when Players are not afraid of their coach.