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Originally Posted by BWillie
Humble I can brag dunk.
Nice story anyways. Coaches can be idiots.
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I mean, I can't dunk anymore. I'm 42 years old. I think I can touch the rim one-handed at this point.
But yeah, that douchebag coach went to Drake (played there, actually). I've disliked them for a long time.
He took over for a very successful, really smart Xs and Os coach my junior year. Promptly tried to install a free-flowing motion offense and an up-tempo, full-court press style when we had 7 guys who could actually play and lacked the offensive personnel to run motion.
It went poorly.
They brought the previous coach back as an assistant 1/2 through my junior year. We went back to the old offense (hi-low, with lots of interior screens and plenty of triangle concepts) and stopped trying to press everywhere, and the season turned around.
The Drake Douchebag also loved to have us run gassers at the end of practice every day, and then make one guy shoot "pressure free throws" so we could practice protecting a lead when we were tired ... and made us keep running if the picked guy didn't make 2.
I was one of our two best FT shooters, with a big gap from us to #3. He stopped letting us shoot them two weeks into practice my jr. year and never let either of us be "the guy who can make it stop" again... even though everything we ran was designed to get the ball to one of us in those situations.
You could tell me he didn't let the two guys everything was designed to get the ball to in must-make FT spots shoot these practice shots because he wanted to spread things around, or prepare for when things didn't go to plan, or just to work on our conditioning.
But it was really just sadism and control. He enjoyed laughing when people failed.