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Calipari's comments on Bragg vs. Jamari or Lucas
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8 years 9 months ago - 8 years 9 months ago #2951
by konza63
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
We've all weighed in with our various opinions of those three players, but it's really telling when a highly successful coach inadvertently (?) wades into the discussion by revealing his team's game plan. In this instance, we've been given a gift, and I hope Coach Self was listening.
In this video, which is actually quite interesting all the way through, I would direct you to cue up the part from 4:37-4:55:
www.ukathletics.com/video/56ad882ee4b09e5c71fbfc8b
In response to a question about how they shut down Perry Ellis, here was Cal's response:
"We were playing off of a couple guys.* The problem is then Carlton Bragg went in and we were saying you have to play him, and we played off of him...and he made three jumpers. You're like 'Guys, you have to play him like you play Perry Ellis. You gotta play him."
* [That's coach-speak for not worrying about guarding Jamari and Lucas tight, not worrying about them as a scoring threat]
Fascinating...and telling. And for those who think that Jamari and Lucas are equal as liabilities to our upside, I would submit that at least one of them (Lucas) can play fairly consistent defense and clog up the lane. I don't want him in there tons of minutes, but he serves a role and doesn't make tons of mistakes in said role.
Bottom line:
Free Bragg. Free Diallo. Coach 'em up.
In this video, which is actually quite interesting all the way through, I would direct you to cue up the part from 4:37-4:55:
www.ukathletics.com/video/56ad882ee4b09e5c71fbfc8b
In response to a question about how they shut down Perry Ellis, here was Cal's response:
"We were playing off of a couple guys.* The problem is then Carlton Bragg went in and we were saying you have to play him, and we played off of him...and he made three jumpers. You're like 'Guys, you have to play him like you play Perry Ellis. You gotta play him."
* [That's coach-speak for not worrying about guarding Jamari and Lucas tight, not worrying about them as a scoring threat]
Fascinating...and telling. And for those who think that Jamari and Lucas are equal as liabilities to our upside, I would submit that at least one of them (Lucas) can play fairly consistent defense and clog up the lane. I don't want him in there tons of minutes, but he serves a role and doesn't make tons of mistakes in said role.
Bottom line:
Free Bragg. Free Diallo. Coach 'em up.
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
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8 years 9 months ago #2954
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Very interesting!!! The scouting reports of others laid right out there. Also read.....FREE BRAGG!! FREE DIALLO!!
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8 years 9 months ago #2958
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This is great stuff!!! As if a "double agent" infiltrated the enemy . . .
Thanks Konza
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8 years 9 months ago #2964
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"When you have a ruling class that doesn’t believe in — or even much like — the fundamental values of the nations it rules, things tend to work out poorly.”
Glenn Reynolds
It's not just the Lucas has no offense, but he also can't jump and is absolutely the worst kind of 5 to have when your guards can't stop THEIR guards. If we drive to the basket, there is absolutely nobody to lay the ball off to in the interior, whereas our opponents kill us penetration, and then they either go right to the basket, or they pass to an interior guy for a score.
What continues to astound me, and which in Perry Ellis' case has astounded and puzzled me for 3 plus years, is why he and Lucas simply won't dunk. It's not possible that Lucas cannot flush the ball, but he never does. He and Perry are the two most passive interior players I've ever seen. It's as if they are offended by dunking the basketball. Game after game, they won't do it. You'd think that at this stage of both or their careers, somebody on the coaching staff would MAKE THEM DUNK, over and over and over, until they leaned how, of simply accepted that they are required to. Just mystifying.
What continues to astound me, and which in Perry Ellis' case has astounded and puzzled me for 3 plus years, is why he and Lucas simply won't dunk. It's not possible that Lucas cannot flush the ball, but he never does. He and Perry are the two most passive interior players I've ever seen. It's as if they are offended by dunking the basketball. Game after game, they won't do it. You'd think that at this stage of both or their careers, somebody on the coaching staff would MAKE THEM DUNK, over and over and over, until they leaned how, of simply accepted that they are required to. Just mystifying.
"When you have a ruling class that doesn’t believe in — or even much like — the fundamental values of the nations it rules, things tend to work out poorly.”
Glenn Reynolds
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