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#WestCoastBias
#BeatCancer
Congratulations to Wooden Award HS winners:
Ziaire Williams, Sierra Canyon
Josh Christopher, Mayfair
Andre Henry, St. Francis
Sebastian Mendoza, Hillcrest
Koat Keat, Renaissance Academy
Johnny Dan, Valley Torah
Keith Dinwiddie, Fairfax
We keep hearing about how good
@ClarkKihei
is looking at Virginia. After London Perrantes did his thing at UVA, and Clark doing his thing now, we wonder who is going to be the next PG to leave the LA area for the Cavaliers.
It's weak when a kid gets an offer from a college and then every school in the league offers the kid after...like they needed someone else to offer the kid in order to validate the player's abilities.
โWinners know why they win and losers donโt know why they lose.โ Mick Croninโs words are honest and necessary for everyone trying to be successful.
โYouโve got to be willing to do the uncomfortable things that go into winning. If all youโre worried about is getting 12 points, regardless of the outcome for our team, itโs going to continue.โ
Coach Cronin, on his message to the team after Saturdayโs game
Every coach need his first head coaching job somewhere. Never understood the whole "need someone with HC experience" as a blanket policy. Yes, there are times it makes sense; but every coach needed that first opportunity.
Let's check out some NBA zone offense and defense.
Great play, but why did it work? And what should the 2-3 zone have done?
Here are some more NBA zone offensive concepts used this season so far
Great inbound play from
@CoachDKerns
and Presbyterian basketball at an important time of the game. The masking actions set up the weak side end action.
Akron and head coach John Groce demonstrate modern spacing as a Horns Screen and Rescreen action creates advantages in part because of the 2 side, and 1 side spacing.
CIF Southern Section Open Division:
1 Bishop Montgomery
2 Etiwanda
3 Mater Dei
4 Rancho Christian
5 Sierra Canyon
6 Crespi
7 Santa Margarita
8 St.John Bosco
Higher seed hosts
Said by another HS coach last night: "year after year, the best coach nobody talks about is El Camino Real HC Joe Wyatt. Talent or no talent he does a great job every year."
We agree.
What kind of sorcery is this? Flex screen to an up screen to a wing spain pick and roll action. Check out this and more from NBA G-League head coach Ryan Pannone as we dive deep into his ATO playbook
What a January Bishop Montgomery is set to have:
Sierra Canyon
Oak Park
Serra twice
St. Bernard twice
Bingham (UT)
Cathedral
Westchester
Cantwell
Fairfax
#StrengthOfSchedule
Takeaway from last night: Fairfax has different players step up every night. Sometimes it's Ethan Anderson, sometimes it's Robert McRae, Ronald Mitchell, Daylen Williams, or Keith Dinwiddie; and they all cheer each other on and support one another.
Anyone look at those 2nd round games in
@CIFSS
Division I?
LB Poly v Windward
Damien v Los Altos
Chino Hills v Canyon
Riverside Poly v St. Anthony
Pasadena v Loyola
Brentwood v JSerra
Santa Margarita v Crespi
Harvard Westlake v Redondo Union
Today a DI asst gave us a serious reflection regarding recruiting: every kid is going to have issues. Every kid is going to have problems. I understand that. But your issues and your problems can't be bigger than your game.
RHP Fall Classic Oct 5th at Cerritos College
9:30 am La Canada v Loyola
11:00 am Brentwood v Peninsula
12:30 pm St. John Bosco v LB Poly
2 pm Colony v Windward
3:30 pm Westchester v Harvard-Westlake
5 pm Mater Dei v SaMo
7 pm RHP v Sierra Canyon
8:30 pm Rancho Chr v Bishop Mont'y
Shout out to the coaches that coach kids who have legitimately never played organized ๐ until they got to HS.
What's the first thing you teach that kid?
With all the tournaments starting today how is it not a holiday?
Westchester
Maranatha
Battlezone
Burbank
Mira Costa
St. Monica
Mission Viejo
Godinez
Beaumont
San Dimas
Sierra Vista/Covina
Buena Park/Kennedy
Tomorrow at noon PDT
@PLNUSeaLions
will be playing for an NCAA Division II National Championship. It will be televised by CBS. Please tune in, especially if you're unfamiliar with DII. No doubt you'll be impressed with the quality of play. Good Luck Pt. Loma Nazarene!!!
Jamal Hartwell's performance in the 2nd half of the
#CollisionGame
last night reaffirmed our wonder as to why he didn't have more offers from local schools.
Doesn't matter...
@MasonMBB
is getting a great one and he's getting a great scholarship.
As much praise as Fletcher Tynen of Bishop Montgomery receives, the intangibles (as well as tangibles) he contributes to his team make him worthy of more props ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐
@fletch_t35
@BMHSKnights
If you're getting recruited and the college coach mentions redshirting, it's not a punishment. That coach is saying, we'll pay for an extra year, knowing that you'll be that much better Year 5 than Year 1.
That's an investment.