treysolid's "never-wrong, absolutely-indisputable, i-am-god-and-you-will-shut-your-whore-mouth-when-men-are-talking" analysis and observations from day 3 of MHKC.
frank williams is the most dangerous player on MOKAN. shot is always on. i mean, i really don't think i saw a MOKAN game where he hit less than 4 treys. fantastic at getting into open space for the pass. plays pretty salty defense. just very skinny - a season in a college program with a good S&C coach will do wonders for this kid. would absolutely love to see him in some purple and silver nike ELITEs, but i don't think frank & 'te are going to think he's worthy of a scholly and he's definitely going to be getting schollies from the mid-majors after his summer so far.
spradling's shot was falling with more consistency today. he averaged about 2 treys a game today. he also was getting better penetration today and once he got into the lane, one of the forwards was getting a bucket. i was really looking at his individual defense a bit more today, and i gotta say that i think it's a bit better than i let on previously. yeah, quicker guards will still get by him, but they don't drive it on him very often. he's pretty smart in that he gets into his defensive stance at a distance where its just the right amount of space to discourage his man from taking the shot AND driving. also knows which direction his man likes drive and shades appropriately.
fitz was just all over the place today. &@#%ing embarrasing. can't the guy be banned from campus?
while never having understood all of the Underwood hate, I feel that if we ever do fire him we should replace him with Jake Sullivan, the head coach of All-Iowa Attack. dude knows his crap. he game-planned the 17U championship game perfectly, his team just didn't execute. for instance, AIA starts out in a 2-3 zone, which must be their staple since they ran it alot in the game i saw vs. team texas elite yesterday. genius defense for an AAU squad really when you think about it because how many AAU teams have good enough shooting to take advantage of the 2-3? anyway, after frank williams hits his first 4 or so three pointers and MOKAN is up by 10, Sully decides to switch over to a triangle and 2. now you can tell that this is a defense AIA has never run before because he's teaching it to them in the TO. and, it turns out it was a really smart decision. he has donivine stewart and trevor hook act as the 2 rovers and just has them glue their asses to spradling and williams while the other 3 guys play the zone. AIA stays in this and battles back to tie the game at 38 apiece at halftime. things started slipping for them in the 2nd half, but you really just gotta credit MOKAN with that. superior organization. at one point, sully looked at his asst coach and said "i wish we could practice more often so we could run plays like they do." i mean, MOKAN has 5 set inbounds plays, they run a motion offense and their full-court press is better most college teams. if i was an opposing coach, i'd just be like "&@#% me".
anything you want to know? can't give info about games i didn't attend.
