After watching this little video clip from ESPN on Coach Wooden I am amazed that he didn’t scout the other teams or worried too much about wins and losses. Funny that they mention that because some of the best and most successful teams that I have played for spent minimal time on the other teams plays. We did go over the players and what their tendencies were but worried more about what we were going to do and how the other team was going to stop us. Players have a attention span like a 2 year old sometime and making things simple and to the point is often the best way to go about things. In saying that there are coaches that are successful that scout the shit out of the other team but in my experience the coaches that kept it simple were the most successful.
Starting in a few weeks my blog will be published on Eurobasket.com Oceania section. This will give me an opportunity to expand and get exposure that can allow me to talk up the league and get some respect around the world. Any suggestions on what I should talk about in my next blog just email me at dusty@d-rych.con or comment and I’ll go from there.
Signing Ubaka will give us something that we really didn’t have last season and that is someone that can get into the lane, suck in the defence and kick out to the shooters/finishers. Kerry has been working hard and looking to improve where he left off and has a ton of potential. His shot needs to improve and be more consistent and be more of a pass first kind of guy when he gets to the lane and suck the D and then be able to finish when the D has sucked in. The addition of both these guys gives us the youth and ability to run and compete at a high level with all the teams in the NBL.
I think this pretty much fills up our roster for the year. I know we still have an import spot to fill and a back up big and some development players to add. Things are looking promising with the new players and the returning players that have a year under our belts with Fearn’s system. Shouldn’t be as hard to grasp the offence as it was last season with so many new guys trying to learn the shuffle.
Pre-season starts around mid July which will get us ready for the season. It’s a little interesting this year with the new schedule and no on playing week day games. oneHD will be tested as well and we will get a chance to see if Free to Air is the way of the future for the NBL and basketball in Australia.
Note: Taipans Member’s Dinner tonight 6:30pm @ Villa Ramana’s on the esplanade. See you there.
