I never concluded anything. I was pretty clear in saying that IF IT WERE MY TEAM I would start him or Sydnor at the 4.
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Miteo
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There is no bait. That doesn't even make sense. I just asked the two of you a simple question and you both refuse to answer it. If I'm debating with someone over man to man defense, something that I've PROVEN to be pretty good at on both the high school and college levels, I want to know something about the person I'm debating with. I think that's fair. I assume you went to Rutgers. Would you argue the benefits of a college education with someone who didn't finish high school? I have a BA in Psychology. I wouldn't think to argue abnormal behavior with a clinical psychologist. I'm interested in giving opinions and hearing them, but I'm not interested in going on and on arguing with someone about man to man defense whose only background might be as a Rutgers fan or as an eighth grade CYO coach. I'll leave it at that.
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Man, you guys crack me up in the mornings lol... interesting season to come with so many unknowns beyond the guards. Even the guards are an unknown with the anticipated development of the rising sophomores..
Not sure why you would go on a fan forum to discuss the team if you are going to completely dismiss the opinions of fans out of hand simply because they are fans. Moreover, if you are knowledgeable that should come through by explaining your position and providing insights rather than simply telling everyone that you’re an expert.
This is an anonymous forum on the public internet. I opt not to share much direct personal information in that setting,so it’d be hard for me to answer that. All I will say is a grew up in a family that lives and breathes basketball (playing and coaching) and now my kids are following that legacy too.
For the reason above, I offered instead, a widely known philosophy about the importance of coaches, not only teaching man early, but playing it in youth ball even if it costs you wins. You tried to play this off as - what do 12 year olds have to do with this? And I explained that the whole logic behind it is the widely accepted belief that it very often takes many many years for man scheme concepts like switches and help D to become innate. I’m not “making this up” myself or expressing a personal opinion, rather I’m repeating philosophy that is spelled out on many a youth basketball club website.
But the funny part is we don’t even know if this was Powers issue or not. All we know is that he was a deer without headlights out there on D last season. He was ok in the press schemes, but simply horrendous by all counts as a halfcourt defender.
If you think Powers D last season was comparable to Geo’s defense at any point in his 5 season RU career, then I really don’t know what to tell you.
Oh please, giving a general background isn't exposing personal information. What you gave me is kind of what I wanted to know and close to what I expected, It doesn't take older kids (high school and up) long to pick up man to man defensive fundamentals - maybe it takes years for little kids, I wouldn't know. Help positioning is no more than seeing man and ball without having to turn your head, and always staying between your man and the ball, then beating your man to the ball if he cuts toward it. The hardest thing to teach defensively is getting over screens because ideally you don't even want to switch. The great man to man defensive coaches only have guys switch when they can't get over a screens. I found it difficult to get older kids to block out because the natural reaction is to go after the ball. If you don't do block out drills religiously kids stop doing it.
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