"It's more movement, it's not standing still," said Wendell Lewis
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this was the day before the Arkansas game in which is iced over really badly and the arena was empty...
Our team was jumping rope during practice. They jumped rope for over 5 minutes. I was so pissed seing that. Jumping rope should be something done during workouts... not practice.
Our team was jumping rope during practice. They jumped rope for over 5 minutes. I was so pissed seing that. Jumping rope should be something done during workouts... not practice.
If I had to guess, I would say most practices were just scrimmages. You know, where they yell "And 1" to call their own fouls, big guys shoot 3's, ally-oops galore, and white guys told not to shoot. Meanwhile Stans was sinking Isaac's Battleship while sucking on a throat lozenge. But then again I could be wrong.
I happened to be in the Craft Center during a UK practice last season.<div>missouridawg said:
</div><div>Guess what? They were jumping rope.
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Yea, you have to wonder how a coach that won more games than all but two teams in the SEC over a 14 year period could have won with his team jumping rope for 5 minutes during a practice. Must have been thatall but a couple of teams were jumping rope 6 or more minuted during a practice!missouridawg said:
You can not over estimate the damage thatwas doneto our won loss record by this crazy rope jumping during practice!
It builds endurance. They were weighted ropes.<div>
</div><div>That doesn't make stansbury a good coach though. He literally didn't know how to practice. People bash his in-game coaching, but his biggest fault was not knowing how to coach in practice. It was very evident at the beginning of almost every game. It was easy to see during wins and losses and everyone just thought you were being a hard-*** if you criticized after a win, but the wins and losses were not coached any differently. </div><div>
</div><div>And this thread is not new news. We knew our team stood still all the time. We knew the new coach wouldn't do that, because no team does that. No one should ever stand still. Ever. Even when you are going 1 on 1 to win the game. The other four still aren't supposed to stand still. It's literally driven me crazy for over ten years. </div>
</div><div>That doesn't make stansbury a good coach though. He literally didn't know how to practice. People bash his in-game coaching, but his biggest fault was not knowing how to coach in practice. It was very evident at the beginning of almost every game. It was easy to see during wins and losses and everyone just thought you were being a hard-*** if you criticized after a win, but the wins and losses were not coached any differently. </div><div>
</div><div>And this thread is not new news. We knew our team stood still all the time. We knew the new coach wouldn't do that, because no team does that. No one should ever stand still. Ever. Even when you are going 1 on 1 to win the game. The other four still aren't supposed to stand still. It's literally driven me crazy for over ten years. </div>
practice in a week, why waste time jumping rope during those hours? Maybe Stansbury should've been coaching offense during those few minutes. We all know he didn't spend any other time doing that.
This isn't an anti-jumping rope post. This is a "why in the 17 we were wasting time in practice" post. I'm all for doing the right things to improve our endurance.... but jumping rope could be done 15 minutes before practice started while coach isn't present.
This isn't an anti-jumping rope post. This is a "why in the 17 we were wasting time in practice" post. I'm all for doing the right things to improve our endurance.... but jumping rope could be done 15 minutes before practice started while coach isn't present.
Tons of teams jump rope during practice. It's not wasting time. Say you just finished thirty minutes of a drill and you are very tired and a trainer hands you a five pound jump rope and says jump rope for one minute. That ****'s tough. There's many things that Stansbury did wrong. I think we can find something a little better than jump roping like the majority of college basketball programs do.missouridawg said: