When I scout, I’m always drawn to players who make many good passes in a game. Obviously, I appreciate a great pass as much as anyone else but given a choice over the course of game, I’d probably prefer a player to make twenty good passes than 2 or 3 Read More
It’s been a while since Villanova won the 2016 NCAA D1 crown and looking back I’m not sure we learned anything new but I’m fairly certain that we were all served up a number of important reminders. Five important ones follow. In Texas A.M.’s comeback win over Northern Iowa, coaches Read More
In an earlier round of the NBA Playoffs, analyst Doug Collins said something I had never heard phrased that particular way. The play-by-play person asked him how a certain team could dig out of a fairly significant deficit and among the few items he mentioned was “the players needed Read More
The sky has fallen; a 16 Seed has beaten a 1 Seed on the 136th try and convincingly-by 20 points. The second-guessing critics are out in force slamming Coach Tony Bennett and his “slow”, “boring” 351st (out of 351 D1 teams) pace of play of 62.1 possessions per 40 Read More
I was watching a film of a recent game the other day and it dawned on me after I fast forwarded through a couple of timeouts that the videographer was purposely taping his team’s timeouts. You should see the behavior. All players, assistants, managers and medical personnel go to exactly Read More
The timing couldn’t have been better for players everywhere to be tuned into two players, who at first glance might only seem to be linked by two very interesting and challenging names. Giannis Antetokounpo and Muhammad-Ali Abdur Rahkman’s basketball lives intersected this past weekend when MAAR’s University of Michigan Wolverine Read More
