Due Date: Tuesday, January 7thIt has been a great semester
in all of my classes.
For your final blog I want to know how I can
be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final
blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like
least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in
class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education
better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your
response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail
to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the
future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop
in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Period 3- Advanced Basketball
Due Date: Tuesday, January 7thIt has been a great semester
in all of my classes.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
Period 5- Basketball
Due Date: Tuesday, January 7thIt has been a great semester
in all of my classes.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
Period 6- Team Games
Due Date: Tuesday, January 7thIt has been a great semester
in all of my classes.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
Period 7- Advanced Basketball
Due Date: Tuesday, January 7thIt has been a great semester
in all of my classes.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Period 2 Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, December 4th
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
Period 3 Advanced Basketball
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
Period 5 Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, December
4th
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an
area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
Period 6 - Team Games
Due Date:Wednesday, December 4th
Number and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points.
1. How many points are necessary to win a game of volleyball?
2. What are 2 thing you need to do when you set the volleyball (think body position)?
True or False
3. If a ball lands on the boundary line it is "good" or in.
4. A ball that touches the top of the net and goes over is still in play.
5. The server may stand at any spot behind the end line when serving
Number and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points.
1. How many points are necessary to win a game of volleyball?
2. What are 2 thing you need to do when you set the volleyball (think body position)?
True or False
3. If a ball lands on the boundary line it is "good" or in.
4. A ball that touches the top of the net and goes over is still in play.
5. The server may stand at any spot behind the end line when serving
Period 7- Advanced Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, December 4th
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an
area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Period 2- Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November20th
Basketball high school rules quiz. Please answer each question with the correct letter. Each question is worth 2 points. Please put your name on your Blog.
1. How many fouls before a player fouls out of the game?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
2.When does the bonus situation start?
a. After the 5th foul
b. After the 6th foul
c. After the 7th foul
d. After the 10th foul
3.How many timeouts does a team get per game?
a. 1 full, 2 30 second
b. 2 full, 3 30 second
c. 3 full, 2 30 second
d. 2 full, 2 30 second
True or False
4. A technical foul warrents the ball out of bounds at half court and 2 free throws.
5. A game always starts with a jumpball.
Basketball high school rules quiz. Please answer each question with the correct letter. Each question is worth 2 points. Please put your name on your Blog.
1. How many fouls before a player fouls out of the game?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
2.When does the bonus situation start?
a. After the 5th foul
b. After the 6th foul
c. After the 7th foul
d. After the 10th foul
3.How many timeouts does a team get per game?
a. 1 full, 2 30 second
b. 2 full, 3 30 second
c. 3 full, 2 30 second
d. 2 full, 2 30 second
True or False
4. A technical foul warrents the ball out of bounds at half court and 2 free throws.
5. A game always starts with a jumpball.
Period 3 -Advanced Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November20th
Basketball high school rules quiz. Please answer each question with the correct letter. Each question is worth 2 points. Please put your name on your Blog.
1. How many fouls before a player fouls out of the game?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
2.When does the bonus situation start?
a. After the 5th foul
b. After the 6th foul
c. After the 7th foul
d. After the 10th foul
3.How many timeouts does a team get per game?
a. 1 full, 2 30 second
b. 2 full, 3 30 second
c. 3 full, 2 30 second
d. 2 full, 2 30 second
True or False
4. A technical foul warrents the ball out of bounds at half court and 2 free throws.
5. A game always starts with a jumpball.
Basketball high school rules quiz. Please answer each question with the correct letter. Each question is worth 2 points. Please put your name on your Blog.
1. How many fouls before a player fouls out of the game?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
2.When does the bonus situation start?
a. After the 5th foul
b. After the 6th foul
c. After the 7th foul
d. After the 10th foul
3.How many timeouts does a team get per game?
a. 1 full, 2 30 second
b. 2 full, 3 30 second
c. 3 full, 2 30 second
d. 2 full, 2 30 second
True or False
4. A technical foul warrents the ball out of bounds at half court and 2 free throws.
5. A game always starts with a jumpball.
Period 5- Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November20th
Basketball high school rules quiz. Please answer each question with the correct letter. Each question is worth 2 points. Please put your name on your Blog.
1. How many fouls before a player fouls out of the game?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
2.When does the bonus situation start?
a. After the 5th foul
b. After the 6th foul
c. After the 7th foul
d. After the 10th foul
3.How many timeouts does a team get per game?
a. 1 full, 2 30 second
b. 2 full, 3 30 second
c. 3 full, 2 30 second
d. 2 full, 2 30 second
True or False
4. A technical foul warrents the ball out of bounds at half court and 2 free throws.
5. A game always starts with a jumpball.
Basketball high school rules quiz. Please answer each question with the correct letter. Each question is worth 2 points. Please put your name on your Blog.
1. How many fouls before a player fouls out of the game?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
2.When does the bonus situation start?
a. After the 5th foul
b. After the 6th foul
c. After the 7th foul
d. After the 10th foul
3.How many timeouts does a team get per game?
a. 1 full, 2 30 second
b. 2 full, 3 30 second
c. 3 full, 2 30 second
d. 2 full, 2 30 second
True or False
4. A technical foul warrents the ball out of bounds at half court and 2 free throws.
5. A game always starts with a jumpball.
Period 6 -Team Games
Due Date: Wednesday, November
20th
We are just starting our floor hockey unit. Watch the video below about the history, rules, and strategies of floor hockey and then answer the questions below. Please make sure to put your name on the blog or you will not receive credit.
1. Where was the first indoor floor hockey game played? And in what year was it played
2. What is the standard number of players in a floor hockey game?
3. What are the 4 positions in floor hockey?
4. What is the most accurate form of passing called in floor hockey?
5. Please name 3 Major penalties in floor hockey?
6. What is a Power Play in floor hockey?
We are just starting our floor hockey unit. Watch the video below about the history, rules, and strategies of floor hockey and then answer the questions below. Please make sure to put your name on the blog or you will not receive credit.
1. Where was the first indoor floor hockey game played? And in what year was it played
2. What is the standard number of players in a floor hockey game?
3. What are the 4 positions in floor hockey?
4. What is the most accurate form of passing called in floor hockey?
5. Please name 3 Major penalties in floor hockey?
6. What is a Power Play in floor hockey?
Period 7- Advanced Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November20th
Basketball high school rules quiz. Please answer each question with the correct letter. Each question is worth 2 points. Please put your name on your Blog.
1. How many fouls before a player fouls out of the game?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
2.When does the bonus situation start?
a. After the 5th foul
b. After the 6th foul
c. After the 7th foul
d. After the 10th foul
3.How many timeouts does a team get per game?
a. 1 full, 2 30 second
b. 2 full, 3 30 second
c. 3 full, 2 30 second
d. 2 full, 2 30 second
True or False
4. A technical foul warrents the ball out of bounds at half court and 2 free throws.
5. A game always starts with a jumpball.
Basketball high school rules quiz. Please answer each question with the correct letter. Each question is worth 2 points. Please put your name on your Blog.
1. How many fouls before a player fouls out of the game?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
2.When does the bonus situation start?
a. After the 5th foul
b. After the 6th foul
c. After the 7th foul
d. After the 10th foul
3.How many timeouts does a team get per game?
a. 1 full, 2 30 second
b. 2 full, 3 30 second
c. 3 full, 2 30 second
d. 2 full, 2 30 second
True or False
4. A technical foul warrents the ball out of bounds at half court and 2 free throws.
5. A game always starts with a jumpball.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Period 2 Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November 6th
Please make sure to put your first and last name on your blog.
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit. At the beginning of this unit we spent several days working on post moves and focusing on a post-wing game. Based on what you have learned, how is your team's post game during game play? Do you think this is affecting your win/loss record? Why?
Please make sure to put your first and last name on your blog.
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit. At the beginning of this unit we spent several days working on post moves and focusing on a post-wing game. Based on what you have learned, how is your team's post game during game play? Do you think this is affecting your win/loss record? Why?
Period 3 Advanced Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November 6th
Please make sure to put your first and last name on your blog.
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit. At the beginning of this unit we spent several days working on post moves and focusing on a post-wing game. Based on what you have learned, how is your team's post game during game play? Do you think this is affecting your win/loss record? Why?
Please make sure to put your first and last name on your blog.
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit. At the beginning of this unit we spent several days working on post moves and focusing on a post-wing game. Based on what you have learned, how is your team's post game during game play? Do you think this is affecting your win/loss record? Why?
Period 5 Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November 6th
Please make sure to put your first and last name on your blog.
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit. At the beginning of this unit we spent several days working on post moves and focusing on a post-wing game. Based on what you have learned, how is your team's post game during game play? Do you think this is affecting your win/loss record? Why?
Please make sure to put your first and last name on your blog.
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit. At the beginning of this unit we spent several days working on post moves and focusing on a post-wing game. Based on what you have learned, how is your team's post game during game play? Do you think this is affecting your win/loss record? Why?
Period 6- Team Games
Due Date: Wednesday, November 6th
For this weeks post I want to get more philosophical. Read the essay below, it was written by a guy named Blair Morrison and touches on the question of; are you pushing yourself or just getting by? You can find more of his essays here.
For this weeks blog. First, tell me what the essay means to you. Do you agree or disagree? You can include where you think you fall in his 90% to 10% example and/or examples of what you do that place you in that category.
Fitness Is...
Potential.
Everybody has it. Few reach it.
It’s easy to assume that people despise mediocrity because the world is littered with evidence of humanity’s desire to excel—our obsession with talent, our reverence for heroes, even our love of money. It’s easy to assume that everyone wants to be his or her physical best because everywhere there are those wishing for a better body type or a better lifestyle. They fill our virgin ears with a symphony of sincerity and aspiration, but listen closer. They clamor with empty voices.
The truth is that 90% of people just want to get by. We pretend our ultimate goal is to be the best version of ourselves, reading the right literature, quoting the right sources, joining the right gyms; but the reality is far less compelling. If we are truly honest we will admit that the level to which we might possibly rise is rarely our chief concern. More important is reaching the level where we can merely survive or, at the very least, mock survival. Getting there is much easier. Getting there requires less time, less pain, and less effort. Getting there is too often there enough.
I was speaking with my father the other day about a friend of ours whose son wanted to be a college football player. He had good size and natural talent, but he was a little slow and lacked the explosive quality most big programs look for in an athlete. One evening while having dinner with this family my dad suggested that the kid hang a bell at the top of the hill abutting their property and ring it every morning before going to school. Not only would sprinting up the hill begin to build the explosive power needed for speed and acceleration but the sound of the bell would become a symbol of his dedication to the goal. I wish I could say the kid went out and rang that bell every day, or committed himself to some other program in its place, but this isn’t that kind of story. He, like many others like him, chose instead to remain a card-carrying member of that mediocre 90%.
Why? Because greatness is HARD. Our bodies don’t care about potential. They were built to survive, not to excel, and survival has gotten pretty easy as of late. Our bodies don’t know that by being stronger and faster and leaner the likelihood of illness, disease, and injury drop dramatically. Our bodies only know that it hurts like hell getting there. It takes supreme physical and mental fortitude and an unflinching, genuine ambition to overcome these hurdles. Most of us lack this and it shows.
In this story his ability wasn’t being measured against theirs or any others, only against his own potential as an individual. He claimed that he wanted to be the best that he could be, to give himself the best chance to be a college football player. But when faced with the reality of what it would take to reach that goal he balked, exposing his ambitions as half-hearted and insincere, and his athletic future to be one ridden along the tired road to the middle. This is an all too common tragedy.
After hearing this story, I sat for a minute and observed my father. He was visibly disappointed by the kid’s inability to commit himself to his goal. Yet I knew for a fact that my dad had wanted to lose weight for years and failed to commit himself to doing so in much the same way. This struck me as a prevailing irony, not just in this conversation but in our culture in general, so I decided to ask him when was the last time he “rang the bell.” He was lost for a second, then smiled wryly as he got my meaning. “Too long,” he replied.
Sadly, it seems that our praise of greatness and our distaste for mediocrity is an appreciation and expectation reserved for others. We expect Jordan or Tiger or Ronaldo to reach their potential every time they compete and we shake our heads when they fall short. But we shrug off our love handles and that occasional chocolate cake as acceptable losses. We cry for the children growing up without physical opportunities, yet lie on the couch and amicably waste ours away. We claim we’re too old, too fat, too injured, or too tired. The truth is we’re too obsessed with getting by.
The good news is that physical potential does not expire. It has no shelf life. Whatever state you’re in at whatever moment, you can always be better. SO BE BETTER. Too often people try to do this by setting a number to hit, a person to beat, or a mirror to impress, implicitly attaching a finite quality to the process. This focus is flawed. As you change and improve, so too should your potential grow and your ambition swell. Remember that fitness is a goal inadvertently attained through the systematic overestimation of yourself in all fields. It’s a byproduct of setting the bar too high, of striving for perfection and falling just short. It’s knowing that you’ll never get there but trying your damndest nonetheless. It’s constantly pushing your limits in every direction regardless of your skill. It’s finding a way to keep ringing the bell.
For this weeks post I want to get more philosophical. Read the essay below, it was written by a guy named Blair Morrison and touches on the question of; are you pushing yourself or just getting by? You can find more of his essays here.
For this weeks blog. First, tell me what the essay means to you. Do you agree or disagree? You can include where you think you fall in his 90% to 10% example and/or examples of what you do that place you in that category.
Fitness Is...
Potential.
Everybody has it. Few reach it.
It’s easy to assume that people despise mediocrity because the world is littered with evidence of humanity’s desire to excel—our obsession with talent, our reverence for heroes, even our love of money. It’s easy to assume that everyone wants to be his or her physical best because everywhere there are those wishing for a better body type or a better lifestyle. They fill our virgin ears with a symphony of sincerity and aspiration, but listen closer. They clamor with empty voices.
The truth is that 90% of people just want to get by. We pretend our ultimate goal is to be the best version of ourselves, reading the right literature, quoting the right sources, joining the right gyms; but the reality is far less compelling. If we are truly honest we will admit that the level to which we might possibly rise is rarely our chief concern. More important is reaching the level where we can merely survive or, at the very least, mock survival. Getting there is much easier. Getting there requires less time, less pain, and less effort. Getting there is too often there enough.
I was speaking with my father the other day about a friend of ours whose son wanted to be a college football player. He had good size and natural talent, but he was a little slow and lacked the explosive quality most big programs look for in an athlete. One evening while having dinner with this family my dad suggested that the kid hang a bell at the top of the hill abutting their property and ring it every morning before going to school. Not only would sprinting up the hill begin to build the explosive power needed for speed and acceleration but the sound of the bell would become a symbol of his dedication to the goal. I wish I could say the kid went out and rang that bell every day, or committed himself to some other program in its place, but this isn’t that kind of story. He, like many others like him, chose instead to remain a card-carrying member of that mediocre 90%.
Why? Because greatness is HARD. Our bodies don’t care about potential. They were built to survive, not to excel, and survival has gotten pretty easy as of late. Our bodies don’t know that by being stronger and faster and leaner the likelihood of illness, disease, and injury drop dramatically. Our bodies only know that it hurts like hell getting there. It takes supreme physical and mental fortitude and an unflinching, genuine ambition to overcome these hurdles. Most of us lack this and it shows.
In this story his ability wasn’t being measured against theirs or any others, only against his own potential as an individual. He claimed that he wanted to be the best that he could be, to give himself the best chance to be a college football player. But when faced with the reality of what it would take to reach that goal he balked, exposing his ambitions as half-hearted and insincere, and his athletic future to be one ridden along the tired road to the middle. This is an all too common tragedy.
After hearing this story, I sat for a minute and observed my father. He was visibly disappointed by the kid’s inability to commit himself to his goal. Yet I knew for a fact that my dad had wanted to lose weight for years and failed to commit himself to doing so in much the same way. This struck me as a prevailing irony, not just in this conversation but in our culture in general, so I decided to ask him when was the last time he “rang the bell.” He was lost for a second, then smiled wryly as he got my meaning. “Too long,” he replied.
Sadly, it seems that our praise of greatness and our distaste for mediocrity is an appreciation and expectation reserved for others. We expect Jordan or Tiger or Ronaldo to reach their potential every time they compete and we shake our heads when they fall short. But we shrug off our love handles and that occasional chocolate cake as acceptable losses. We cry for the children growing up without physical opportunities, yet lie on the couch and amicably waste ours away. We claim we’re too old, too fat, too injured, or too tired. The truth is we’re too obsessed with getting by.
The good news is that physical potential does not expire. It has no shelf life. Whatever state you’re in at whatever moment, you can always be better. SO BE BETTER. Too often people try to do this by setting a number to hit, a person to beat, or a mirror to impress, implicitly attaching a finite quality to the process. This focus is flawed. As you change and improve, so too should your potential grow and your ambition swell. Remember that fitness is a goal inadvertently attained through the systematic overestimation of yourself in all fields. It’s a byproduct of setting the bar too high, of striving for perfection and falling just short. It’s knowing that you’ll never get there but trying your damndest nonetheless. It’s constantly pushing your limits in every direction regardless of your skill. It’s finding a way to keep ringing the bell.
Period 7 - Advanced Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November 6th
Please make sure to put your first and last name on your blog.
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit. At the beginning of this unit we spent several days working on post moves and focusing on a post-wing game. Based on what you have learned, how is your team's post game during game play? Do you think this is affecting your win/loss record? Why?
Please make sure to put your first and last name on your blog.
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit. At the beginning of this unit we spent several days working on post moves and focusing on a post-wing game. Based on what you have learned, how is your team's post game during game play? Do you think this is affecting your win/loss record? Why?
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Period 2 Basketball
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does poition for possession mean?
Period 3 Advanced Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, October 23rd
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does poition for possession mean?
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does poition for possession mean?
Period 5 Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, October 23rd
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does poition for possession mean?
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does poition for possession mean?
Period 6 Team Games
Due Date: Wednesday, October 23rd
You will have two weeks to complete this blog and turn it in to me. Below are the ten general skills of physical fitness. The body is a dynamic machine and all of these skills help to make that machine run. It is my contention that you are only as good as your average across the range of these ten skills and to get better you need to raise that average. The best way to do that is to find what you are deficient in and make that better.
For this weeks’ blog I want you to rate yourself 1 - 10 in each of the skill categories. One being the worst ten the best. Once you have rated yourself, choose 3 general skills of fitness and explain 2 ways you can improve on these areas. Be honest in your rankings, and if you need a second opinion ask me.
1. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance – The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen.
2. Stamina – The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store and utilize energy.
3. Strength – The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply force.
4. Flexibility – The ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint.
5. Power – The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units to apply maximum force in minimum time.
6. Speed – The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.
7. Co-ordination – The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a singular distinct movement.
8. Agility – The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another.
9. Balance The ability to control the placement of the bodies center of gravity in relation to its support base.
10. Accuracy – The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity
You will have two weeks to complete this blog and turn it in to me. Below are the ten general skills of physical fitness. The body is a dynamic machine and all of these skills help to make that machine run. It is my contention that you are only as good as your average across the range of these ten skills and to get better you need to raise that average. The best way to do that is to find what you are deficient in and make that better.
For this weeks’ blog I want you to rate yourself 1 - 10 in each of the skill categories. One being the worst ten the best. Once you have rated yourself, choose 3 general skills of fitness and explain 2 ways you can improve on these areas. Be honest in your rankings, and if you need a second opinion ask me.
1. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance – The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen.
2. Stamina – The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store and utilize energy.
3. Strength – The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply force.
4. Flexibility – The ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint.
5. Power – The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units to apply maximum force in minimum time.
6. Speed – The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.
7. Co-ordination – The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a singular distinct movement.
8. Agility – The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another.
9. Balance The ability to control the placement of the bodies center of gravity in relation to its support base.
10. Accuracy – The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity
Period 7 Advanced Basketball
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does poition for possession mean?
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Period 2 -Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, October
2nd
Because college basketball is just around the corner, I thought this would be a good assignment to get you thinking about college basketball and different coaching styles.
The article below is about 4 highly accomplished Division 1 colloge basketball coaches. Please read the article and answer the questions below. Please remember to put your name on your Blog so that I can give you credit.
1. Who was the winner of the
2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship?
2. Based on what you read, who is the best coach and why? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
3. When a team wins a championship, do you think that means that team had the best coach? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
Because college basketball is just around the corner, I thought this would be a good assignment to get you thinking about college basketball and different coaching styles.
The article below is about 4 highly accomplished Division 1 colloge basketball coaches. Please read the article and answer the questions below. Please remember to put your name on your Blog so that I can give you credit.
John
Calipari and Rick Pitino
ESPN.com
It
ain't easy being John Calipari.
But
that doesn't mean it's easy.
In
fact, the advantages of Calipari's job can frequently double as its drawbacks.
That insane talent only raises expectations, expectations that create in fans
not hope but demands: win or else. Every move on this team is scrutinized by a
local media corps year-round, 24/7, 365. The position Calipari has put himself
in with this team is enviable, sure, but it is also tenuous; there is absolutely
no margin for error.
Which
only makes the coaching job he's done this season all the more impressive.
First, Calipari had to assemble this juggernaut. (Recruiting is often overlooked
in coach-of-the-year discussions, but why?) Then, he had to solder disparate
talented parts -- the kind of top-end AAU stars who might easily bristle against
diminished roles -- into a basketball team even better than the sum of its
parts. Then, he had to guide that team through the maelstrom that is basketball
season in Kentucky, particularly a basketball season in which nothing but a
national title can be considered a success.
The
Wildcats are very nearly there. Does Calipari have the best talent in the
country? No question. Are Calipari's problems of the high-class variety? Oh
yeah. But high-class problems are still problems, and no coach in the country --
through the media, through point-perfect long-view guidance, through in-season
adjustments designed to maximize each player's ability -- manages them better
than the governor of BBN.
Sure,
sure: Saying Calipari's job is hard is like saying driving a Maserati is too
stressful. But the driver still has to hit his turns, and Coach Cal hasn't
missed one.
--
Eamonn Brennan
Rick
Pitino insisted that, outside the birth of his three children, no day in his
life was better than this past Saturday, when Louisville topped Florida to make
it to the Final Four.
It
sounded like adrenaline-fueled hyperbole, but Pitino makes a valid point. On a
résumé dotted with impressive results, this season just might be the most
miraculous and magical, not to mention the best coaching job in Pitino's
illustrious career.
Louisville
is going to New Orleans despite a roster that read like an NFL injured reserve
list -- Mike Marra (done for the season, ACL injury), Rakeem Buckles (done for the season, ACL injury),
Stephan Van Treese (done for the season, patellar
injury), Wayne Blackshear (out 25 games, shoulder injury),
Peyton Siva (missed three games, ankle injury,
concussion), Kyle Kuric (missed three games, ankle injury), Jared Swopshire (missed two games, groin injury).
But
mostly Louisville is going to New Orleans because a would-be (should-be) Hall of
Fame coach pushed every right button at every critical juncture. When injuries
decimated his roster, Pitino slowed things down, and when everyone finally got
healthy, he went back to his roots, pushing the tempo and turning a team that is
short on offensive savvy into a defensive swarm.
No
one will even try to argue that this is among Pitino's top-five (top 10?)
talented teams, but what the Cards may lack in skill, they make up for in
gumption. They are relentless, a team that never seems to accept the fact that
it can't or shouldn't be able to come back.
In
a high-end Final Four, Louisville is the only real underdog, a team that limped
into the postseason, losing four of its final six regular-season
games.
Yet
Louisville is going to New Orleans because one of the most successful coaches in
the game did the best job of his career.
--
Dana O'Neil
Thad
Matta and Bill Self
ESPN.com
In
late February, Thad Matta curtailed the bravado of a talented Buckeyes squad by
kicking his team out of practice.
Ohio
State became a national title contender the moment that Jared Sullinger
fulfilled his promise to return for his sophomore season. Lost in that signature
development, however, was the team's reliance on youth and the leadership void
left by three graduating seniors.
The
Buckeyes endured a 2-3 stretch in February that warranted questions about the
way they'd end the season. Yes, they had weapons, but without the proper drive,
they'd never achieve what their abilities suggested they were capable of
accomplishing.
Enter
Matta.
His
elite coaching prowess has been proved by the development within his program.
Deshaun Thomas enters the Final Four as one of the most potent scorers in the
field. Aaron Craft's defensive fortitude has disrupted offense strategies all
season. Sullinger lost weight and added new offensive wrinkles to his game under
Matta's watch, too.
But
the head coach deserves just as much credit for his ability to mold this young
group mentally. Matta didn't have the veteran leaders who had led some of his
Buckeyes teams in recent years, and unlike his 2006-07 NCAA national runner-up
squad, he didn't have three first-round picks.
Matta's
tutelage, however, fueled a rapid maturation process that equipped the Buckeyes
with the proper mindset in March, even though they didn't appear to have it in
late February. Every time his youthful team moved off track, Matta brought it
back. Sometimes, he had to praise players after tough outings. On other
occasions, he had to humble them like the day he booted them from
practice.
But
in the best coaching performance of his career, Matta became Ohio State's
maestro.
And
that's why the Buckeyes are still making music.
--
Myron Medcalf
Back
in October, a few days after the start of official workouts, Bill Self
re-evaluated his expectations for this season's
squad.
Coaches
often downplay the potential of their team, but in this case, Self's concern
seemed genuine. The Jayhawks had lost four starters and six of the top eight
players from a roster that finished 35-3 the previous season. Only two returning
players -- point guard Tyshawn Taylor and forward Thomas Robinson -- averaged
more than four points per game in 2010-11.
When
Kansas defeated Ohio State at Allen Fieldhouse in December, Self was thrilled,
for reasons you may not expect.
"We
needed a feather in our cap," said Self, whose team had already lost to Kentucky
and Duke. "We needed to beat someone to get into the tournament. At that point
we hadn't done it."
Four
months later, Kansas is preparing to play Ohio State again -- in the Final Four.
It
happened because of Self, who has turned what was supposedly his worst team into
one of his best. This is the second Final Four appearance for Self, who has won
more games than any other college coach in America since his arrival at Kansas
in 2003-04. Self sparked KU to the NCAA title in 2008. As impressive as his
efforts were then, his excellence has been magnified more this season than in
any other in his career.
In
Robinson, Self took a player who averaged a little more than 14 minutes off the
bench last season and turned him into a Wooden Award candidate.
Taylor,
a third-team All-American, went from being one of the most criticized players in
KU history to one of the most loved. Self transformed role players such as Jeff
Withey, Elijah Johnson and Travis Releford -- all of whom averaged between two
and four points last season -- into solid players and
contributors.
Kansas
advanced to the Final Four by beating a North Carolina team that played six
McDonald's All-Americans. The Jayhawks don't have any. With Self on the
sideline, it didn't matter.
It
hasn't all season.
--
Jason King
2. Based on what you read, who is the best coach and why? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
3. When a team wins a championship, do you think that means that team had the best coach? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
Period 3 -Advanced Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, October
2nd
Because college basketball is just around the corner, I thought this would be a good assignment to get you thinking about college basketball and different coaching styles.
The article below is about 4 highly accomplished Division 1 colloge basketball coaches. Please read the article and answer the questions below. Please remember to put your name on your Blog so that I can give you credit.
1. Who was the winner of the
2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship?
2. Based on what you read, who is the best coach and why? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
3. When a team wins a championship, do you think that means that team had the best coach? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
Because college basketball is just around the corner, I thought this would be a good assignment to get you thinking about college basketball and different coaching styles.
The article below is about 4 highly accomplished Division 1 colloge basketball coaches. Please read the article and answer the questions below. Please remember to put your name on your Blog so that I can give you credit.
John
Calipari and Rick Pitino
ESPN.com
It
ain't easy being John Calipari.
But
that doesn't mean it's easy.
In
fact, the advantages of Calipari's job can frequently double as its drawbacks.
That insane talent only raises expectations, expectations that create in fans
not hope but demands: win or else. Every move on this team is scrutinized by a
local media corps year-round, 24/7, 365. The position Calipari has put himself
in with this team is enviable, sure, but it is also tenuous; there is absolutely
no margin for error.
Which
only makes the coaching job he's done this season all the more impressive.
First, Calipari had to assemble this juggernaut. (Recruiting is often overlooked
in coach-of-the-year discussions, but why?) Then, he had to solder disparate
talented parts -- the kind of top-end AAU stars who might easily bristle against
diminished roles -- into a basketball team even better than the sum of its
parts. Then, he had to guide that team through the maelstrom that is basketball
season in Kentucky, particularly a basketball season in which nothing but a
national title can be considered a success.
The
Wildcats are very nearly there. Does Calipari have the best talent in the
country? No question. Are Calipari's problems of the high-class variety? Oh
yeah. But high-class problems are still problems, and no coach in the country --
through the media, through point-perfect long-view guidance, through in-season
adjustments designed to maximize each player's ability -- manages them better
than the governor of BBN.
Sure,
sure: Saying Calipari's job is hard is like saying driving a Maserati is too
stressful. But the driver still has to hit his turns, and Coach Cal hasn't
missed one.
--
Eamonn Brennan
Rick
Pitino insisted that, outside the birth of his three children, no day in his
life was better than this past Saturday, when Louisville topped Florida to make
it to the Final Four.
It
sounded like adrenaline-fueled hyperbole, but Pitino makes a valid point. On a
résumé dotted with impressive results, this season just might be the most
miraculous and magical, not to mention the best coaching job in Pitino's
illustrious career.
Louisville
is going to New Orleans despite a roster that read like an NFL injured reserve
list -- Mike Marra (done for the season, ACL injury), Rakeem Buckles (done for the season, ACL injury),
Stephan Van Treese (done for the season, patellar
injury), Wayne Blackshear (out 25 games, shoulder injury),
Peyton Siva (missed three games, ankle injury,
concussion), Kyle Kuric (missed three games, ankle injury), Jared Swopshire (missed two games, groin injury).
But
mostly Louisville is going to New Orleans because a would-be (should-be) Hall of
Fame coach pushed every right button at every critical juncture. When injuries
decimated his roster, Pitino slowed things down, and when everyone finally got
healthy, he went back to his roots, pushing the tempo and turning a team that is
short on offensive savvy into a defensive swarm.
No
one will even try to argue that this is among Pitino's top-five (top 10?)
talented teams, but what the Cards may lack in skill, they make up for in
gumption. They are relentless, a team that never seems to accept the fact that
it can't or shouldn't be able to come back.
In
a high-end Final Four, Louisville is the only real underdog, a team that limped
into the postseason, losing four of its final six regular-season
games.
Yet
Louisville is going to New Orleans because one of the most successful coaches in
the game did the best job of his career.
--
Dana O'Neil
Thad
Matta and Bill Self
ESPN.com
In
late February, Thad Matta curtailed the bravado of a talented Buckeyes squad by
kicking his team out of practice.
Ohio
State became a national title contender the moment that Jared Sullinger
fulfilled his promise to return for his sophomore season. Lost in that signature
development, however, was the team's reliance on youth and the leadership void
left by three graduating seniors.
The
Buckeyes endured a 2-3 stretch in February that warranted questions about the
way they'd end the season. Yes, they had weapons, but without the proper drive,
they'd never achieve what their abilities suggested they were capable of
accomplishing.
Enter
Matta.
His
elite coaching prowess has been proved by the development within his program.
Deshaun Thomas enters the Final Four as one of the most potent scorers in the
field. Aaron Craft's defensive fortitude has disrupted offense strategies all
season. Sullinger lost weight and added new offensive wrinkles to his game under
Matta's watch, too.
But
the head coach deserves just as much credit for his ability to mold this young
group mentally. Matta didn't have the veteran leaders who had led some of his
Buckeyes teams in recent years, and unlike his 2006-07 NCAA national runner-up
squad, he didn't have three first-round picks.
Matta's
tutelage, however, fueled a rapid maturation process that equipped the Buckeyes
with the proper mindset in March, even though they didn't appear to have it in
late February. Every time his youthful team moved off track, Matta brought it
back. Sometimes, he had to praise players after tough outings. On other
occasions, he had to humble them like the day he booted them from
practice.
But
in the best coaching performance of his career, Matta became Ohio State's
maestro.
And
that's why the Buckeyes are still making music.
--
Myron Medcalf
Back
in October, a few days after the start of official workouts, Bill Self
re-evaluated his expectations for this season's
squad.
Coaches
often downplay the potential of their team, but in this case, Self's concern
seemed genuine. The Jayhawks had lost four starters and six of the top eight
players from a roster that finished 35-3 the previous season. Only two returning
players -- point guard Tyshawn Taylor and forward Thomas Robinson -- averaged
more than four points per game in 2010-11.
When
Kansas defeated Ohio State at Allen Fieldhouse in December, Self was thrilled,
for reasons you may not expect.
"We
needed a feather in our cap," said Self, whose team had already lost to Kentucky
and Duke. "We needed to beat someone to get into the tournament. At that point
we hadn't done it."
Four
months later, Kansas is preparing to play Ohio State again -- in the Final Four.
It
happened because of Self, who has turned what was supposedly his worst team into
one of his best. This is the second Final Four appearance for Self, who has won
more games than any other college coach in America since his arrival at Kansas
in 2003-04. Self sparked KU to the NCAA title in 2008. As impressive as his
efforts were then, his excellence has been magnified more this season than in
any other in his career.
In
Robinson, Self took a player who averaged a little more than 14 minutes off the
bench last season and turned him into a Wooden Award candidate.
Taylor,
a third-team All-American, went from being one of the most criticized players in
KU history to one of the most loved. Self transformed role players such as Jeff
Withey, Elijah Johnson and Travis Releford -- all of whom averaged between two
and four points last season -- into solid players and
contributors.
Kansas
advanced to the Final Four by beating a North Carolina team that played six
McDonald's All-Americans. The Jayhawks don't have any. With Self on the
sideline, it didn't matter.
It
hasn't all season.
--
Jason King
2. Based on what you read, who is the best coach and why? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
3. When a team wins a championship, do you think that means that team had the best coach? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
Period 5 -Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, October
2nd
Because college basketball is just around the corner, I thought this would be a good assignment to get you thinking about college basketball and different coaching styles.
The article below is about 4 highly accomplished Division 1 colloge basketball coaches. Please read the article and answer the questions below. Please remember to put your name on your Blog so that I can give you credit.
1. Who was the winner of the
2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship?
2. Based on what you read, who is the best coach and why? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
3. When a team wins a championship, do you think that means that team had the best coach? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
Because college basketball is just around the corner, I thought this would be a good assignment to get you thinking about college basketball and different coaching styles.
The article below is about 4 highly accomplished Division 1 colloge basketball coaches. Please read the article and answer the questions below. Please remember to put your name on your Blog so that I can give you credit.
John
Calipari and Rick Pitino
ESPN.com
It
ain't easy being John Calipari.
But
that doesn't mean it's easy.
In
fact, the advantages of Calipari's job can frequently double as its drawbacks.
That insane talent only raises expectations, expectations that create in fans
not hope but demands: win or else. Every move on this team is scrutinized by a
local media corps year-round, 24/7, 365. The position Calipari has put himself
in with this team is enviable, sure, but it is also tenuous; there is absolutely
no margin for error.
Which
only makes the coaching job he's done this season all the more impressive.
First, Calipari had to assemble this juggernaut. (Recruiting is often overlooked
in coach-of-the-year discussions, but why?) Then, he had to solder disparate
talented parts -- the kind of top-end AAU stars who might easily bristle against
diminished roles -- into a basketball team even better than the sum of its
parts. Then, he had to guide that team through the maelstrom that is basketball
season in Kentucky, particularly a basketball season in which nothing but a
national title can be considered a success.
The
Wildcats are very nearly there. Does Calipari have the best talent in the
country? No question. Are Calipari's problems of the high-class variety? Oh
yeah. But high-class problems are still problems, and no coach in the country --
through the media, through point-perfect long-view guidance, through in-season
adjustments designed to maximize each player's ability -- manages them better
than the governor of BBN.
Sure,
sure: Saying Calipari's job is hard is like saying driving a Maserati is too
stressful. But the driver still has to hit his turns, and Coach Cal hasn't
missed one.
--
Eamonn Brennan
Rick
Pitino insisted that, outside the birth of his three children, no day in his
life was better than this past Saturday, when Louisville topped Florida to make
it to the Final Four.
It
sounded like adrenaline-fueled hyperbole, but Pitino makes a valid point. On a
résumé dotted with impressive results, this season just might be the most
miraculous and magical, not to mention the best coaching job in Pitino's
illustrious career.
Louisville
is going to New Orleans despite a roster that read like an NFL injured reserve
list -- Mike Marra (done for the season, ACL injury), Rakeem Buckles (done for the season, ACL injury),
Stephan Van Treese (done for the season, patellar
injury), Wayne Blackshear (out 25 games, shoulder injury),
Peyton Siva (missed three games, ankle injury,
concussion), Kyle Kuric (missed three games, ankle injury), Jared Swopshire (missed two games, groin injury).
But
mostly Louisville is going to New Orleans because a would-be (should-be) Hall of
Fame coach pushed every right button at every critical juncture. When injuries
decimated his roster, Pitino slowed things down, and when everyone finally got
healthy, he went back to his roots, pushing the tempo and turning a team that is
short on offensive savvy into a defensive swarm.
No
one will even try to argue that this is among Pitino's top-five (top 10?)
talented teams, but what the Cards may lack in skill, they make up for in
gumption. They are relentless, a team that never seems to accept the fact that
it can't or shouldn't be able to come back.
In
a high-end Final Four, Louisville is the only real underdog, a team that limped
into the postseason, losing four of its final six regular-season
games.
Yet
Louisville is going to New Orleans because one of the most successful coaches in
the game did the best job of his career.
--
Dana O'Neil
Thad
Matta and Bill Self
ESPN.com
In
late February, Thad Matta curtailed the bravado of a talented Buckeyes squad by
kicking his team out of practice.
Ohio
State became a national title contender the moment that Jared Sullinger
fulfilled his promise to return for his sophomore season. Lost in that signature
development, however, was the team's reliance on youth and the leadership void
left by three graduating seniors.
The
Buckeyes endured a 2-3 stretch in February that warranted questions about the
way they'd end the season. Yes, they had weapons, but without the proper drive,
they'd never achieve what their abilities suggested they were capable of
accomplishing.
Enter
Matta.
His
elite coaching prowess has been proved by the development within his program.
Deshaun Thomas enters the Final Four as one of the most potent scorers in the
field. Aaron Craft's defensive fortitude has disrupted offense strategies all
season. Sullinger lost weight and added new offensive wrinkles to his game under
Matta's watch, too.
But
the head coach deserves just as much credit for his ability to mold this young
group mentally. Matta didn't have the veteran leaders who had led some of his
Buckeyes teams in recent years, and unlike his 2006-07 NCAA national runner-up
squad, he didn't have three first-round picks.
Matta's
tutelage, however, fueled a rapid maturation process that equipped the Buckeyes
with the proper mindset in March, even though they didn't appear to have it in
late February. Every time his youthful team moved off track, Matta brought it
back. Sometimes, he had to praise players after tough outings. On other
occasions, he had to humble them like the day he booted them from
practice.
But
in the best coaching performance of his career, Matta became Ohio State's
maestro.
And
that's why the Buckeyes are still making music.
--
Myron Medcalf
Back
in October, a few days after the start of official workouts, Bill Self
re-evaluated his expectations for this season's
squad.
Coaches
often downplay the potential of their team, but in this case, Self's concern
seemed genuine. The Jayhawks had lost four starters and six of the top eight
players from a roster that finished 35-3 the previous season. Only two returning
players -- point guard Tyshawn Taylor and forward Thomas Robinson -- averaged
more than four points per game in 2010-11.
When
Kansas defeated Ohio State at Allen Fieldhouse in December, Self was thrilled,
for reasons you may not expect.
"We
needed a feather in our cap," said Self, whose team had already lost to Kentucky
and Duke. "We needed to beat someone to get into the tournament. At that point
we hadn't done it."
Four
months later, Kansas is preparing to play Ohio State again -- in the Final Four.
It
happened because of Self, who has turned what was supposedly his worst team into
one of his best. This is the second Final Four appearance for Self, who has won
more games than any other college coach in America since his arrival at Kansas
in 2003-04. Self sparked KU to the NCAA title in 2008. As impressive as his
efforts were then, his excellence has been magnified more this season than in
any other in his career.
In
Robinson, Self took a player who averaged a little more than 14 minutes off the
bench last season and turned him into a Wooden Award candidate.
Taylor,
a third-team All-American, went from being one of the most criticized players in
KU history to one of the most loved. Self transformed role players such as Jeff
Withey, Elijah Johnson and Travis Releford -- all of whom averaged between two
and four points last season -- into solid players and
contributors.
Kansas
advanced to the Final Four by beating a North Carolina team that played six
McDonald's All-Americans. The Jayhawks don't have any. With Self on the
sideline, it didn't matter.
It
hasn't all season.
--
Jason King
2. Based on what you read, who is the best coach and why? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
3. When a team wins a championship, do you think that means that team had the best coach? Please give 2 reasons to support your answer.
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