I'm enjoying this season to no end. I'm not a negative person. File this critique under "1st-world problems", finding something--anything--to complain about. But...
I continue to be surprised that after all these years of playing basketball, a couple of the guys can't/won't/don't shoot a left handed layup where they jump off their right foot and lay it in off the glass with their left hand as they approach the basket from the left. Morris failed a couple times, and Long once, last night. And I cringed in games earlier this season.
I'm old enough to have played grade school basketball wearing ball-hugger shorts with a belt on them, but I also played when their was a 3 point line in junior high. So it's not like I was shooting granny shots in peach baskets, but yeah, I'm old school. The grade school teams I coach now all run layup drills from both sides. I'm sure the Cyclones have had much better coaches than me to teach them fundamentals! How can it be that these guys aren't executing the technique in a college game? I would think that after missing the awkward switch to the right hand finger roll layup like happened a few times last night that they'd make a correction at some point.
...ok, back to basking in the victory and enjoying the success.
I continue to be surprised that after all these years of playing basketball, a couple of the guys can't/won't/don't shoot a left handed layup where they jump off their right foot and lay it in off the glass with their left hand as they approach the basket from the left. Morris failed a couple times, and Long once, last night. And I cringed in games earlier this season.
I'm old enough to have played grade school basketball wearing ball-hugger shorts with a belt on them, but I also played when their was a 3 point line in junior high. So it's not like I was shooting granny shots in peach baskets, but yeah, I'm old school. The grade school teams I coach now all run layup drills from both sides. I'm sure the Cyclones have had much better coaches than me to teach them fundamentals! How can it be that these guys aren't executing the technique in a college game? I would think that after missing the awkward switch to the right hand finger roll layup like happened a few times last night that they'd make a correction at some point.
...ok, back to basking in the victory and enjoying the success.
