I have to rein myself in too sometimes when it comes to Egbunu. .
No prob Insti. If we were competing on a game show, the host would give you the points. After all you are
defending the home team.
Man, how much trouble could we give teams if inside-man Egbunu were scoring 16-20 ppg?
I'm puzzled: can (does) basketball have advisors and assistants like football. If so find somebody
6'10" who was agile in his recent college days. Heck, go find a street-ball big-man flash and have him in to
teach Egbunu. Just repeating 1 on 1 drills should soak in some skills.
We had a H.S. basketball coach about 6'9" back in '62. He got every player cheap sunglasses that he'd
cut off the upper half of the lens so that they would practice dribbling looking at the spread on the court, not
down at the floor. Everybody improved - ( not me, I was the first he order to another sport). He sought out a
regular student who had a trampoline in his back yard driveway. He put an extension on the goal-pole, leveled
the rim at the comparable jump height and had the inside men, F & C, bounce on the tramp and shoot baskets.
Of course their limited tramp skills put their bodies in odd off balanced positions. They became better shooters.
Although we were the newest school in The Gateway Conference that team went 24-6.
Coach Conkle had toured as an opponent of the Harlem Globetrotters. He said back then the less than famous
Globetrotters were an event paired with the touring professional wrestlers = weird stories, carnival-like.
