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Players often take on the personality of the coach. Mike White doesn't seem to have that killer instinct and doesn't pass it along. This team needs a Scottie/Joakim/Pat Young type player to smack them in the face.
Gator Basketball ***Official Game Thread*** Florida vs South Carolina
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ever watch Johnny Wooden coach? Or Dean Smith.
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What is missing, is missing in practices, practices, = both the athletics rehearsing and the on-the-move thinking-assessment. Does anyone see Mike White as adept at transferring unrelenting drive, evergrowing confidence, jaunty rhythm, non-stop energy?
Droopy Dog could do Mike White's job.
Droopy Dog could do Mike White's job.
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Exactly...even though we won, we had no excuse letting Vandy come back like they did
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Also had Daryl Gresham for a year or two during that stretch before he transferred to Georgia State I think.
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As I'm always the contrarian, could it be that the S. Carolina game was the result of an emotional letdown when the team had it confirmed that Keyontae was definitely not going to be able to play this season? I believe that confirmation came out earlier in the day of the S. Carolina game.
It does amaze me that folks went from disliking Mike White on Jan 22, just before the Tennessee blowout, to guardedly optimistic about him on Feb 2, just before the S. Carolina debacle, to absolutely hating him now, as if the 4 good-to-great games never happened.
It does amaze me that folks went from disliking Mike White on Jan 22, just before the Tennessee blowout, to guardedly optimistic about him on Feb 2, just before the S. Carolina debacle, to absolutely hating him now, as if the 4 good-to-great games never happened.
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There must be several trained ingrained characteristics to putting a consistently winning team on the court game after game.
#1) Mike White seems to be a coach who doesn't have any ideas of how to ingrain any of the dogged characteristics of consistent winning.
How about extreme stamina? Typical distant running-drills fall short. There should be very taxing "dashes" like 400 meters - a sprint that puts the greatest "stress" on legs and lungs. Heck, if track athletes can be pushed to do it, then basketball athletes can do it.
It doesn't stand out as so noticeable, but what if late in a game, players' inadequate stamina causes each jump to be inches shorter, giving shots an inadequate "height-angle" = so clanging rims, sloppy ricochets, not quick-good jumping for rebounds, overall sluggish reflexes, ...etc.?
The worth of stamina also directs the play early in the game. Prepared stamina means prepared energy from start to finish. Players feel good thus ensuring that power of confidence. "Second winds" stave off opposing teams' scoring charges and allow scoring bursts.
On the flip side, stamina-lack connects to the inability to try hard enough, inability to maintain a lead, to overcome referees ( :D), inability to maintain high spirits throughout the game = long enough to defeat the opponent. We need every advantage we can acquire to take it to the opponent. Training with no-nonsense 400-meter times, 800-meter times certainly should greatly help. We need help. (I know I do.)
#1) Mike White seems to be a coach who doesn't have any ideas of how to ingrain any of the dogged characteristics of consistent winning.
How about extreme stamina? Typical distant running-drills fall short. There should be very taxing "dashes" like 400 meters - a sprint that puts the greatest "stress" on legs and lungs. Heck, if track athletes can be pushed to do it, then basketball athletes can do it.
It doesn't stand out as so noticeable, but what if late in a game, players' inadequate stamina causes each jump to be inches shorter, giving shots an inadequate "height-angle" = so clanging rims, sloppy ricochets, not quick-good jumping for rebounds, overall sluggish reflexes, ...etc.?
The worth of stamina also directs the play early in the game. Prepared stamina means prepared energy from start to finish. Players feel good thus ensuring that power of confidence. "Second winds" stave off opposing teams' scoring charges and allow scoring bursts.
On the flip side, stamina-lack connects to the inability to try hard enough, inability to maintain a lead, to overcome referees ( :D), inability to maintain high spirits throughout the game = long enough to defeat the opponent. We need every advantage we can acquire to take it to the opponent. Training with no-nonsense 400-meter times, 800-meter times certainly should greatly help. We need help. (I know I do.)
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Coach, those guys were incredible teachers, mentors, and team builders. The amazing thing about Wooden is winning was not his emphasis. It was on building a team and having the guys play together. The foundation of what they did was always friendship, loyalty, and an incredible work ethic. It just doesn't seem like Mike White's teams have that.
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Game Wednesday is postponed as well
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Did you ever watch either of them coach a team with less than 8 McDonalds All Americans?
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It helped Johnny W to have Walton and Jabbar. Two of the greatest in those decades or any. Dean had amazing players too. But I remember when Billy was whooping duke and NC in a title run and the announcer said that they didnt have the bench to play with Fla that year.
Imagine if Russell had gone to UCLA instead of San Fran. John probably has 5 more..........cause Bill would have inspired more to UCLA early on
John didn have too many before Alcindor. Usualy a few but not like UK or Dean and Mike did later on..........
Imagine if Russell had gone to UCLA instead of San Fran. John probably has 5 more..........cause Bill would have inspired more to UCLA early on
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3 games cancelled and 6 games postponed for our Gators so far this season. Will they be made up? 2 of the postponed games were conference games and the other 4 games were cupcake filler games. So we would have probably gone 5-4 in those 9 games we have missed so that puts us as 15-9 or so at this point. Another season down the tubes in disappointment.
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