right now is a lack of confidence. I played organized basketball through high school and I can speak from experience on this one. When I played, there were times the basket looked as large as the ocean, and everything I shot went in. There were other nights where the basket looked like a bulls eye on a very small target, and I couldn't make anything.
Missing a lot of shots causes you to lose your confidence faster than making shots gives your confidence a boost. When you start missing shots, you start tweeking with your rhythm, technique, follow-through, etc. This is expecially true if the poor shooting extends for several games. Before you know it, you have radically changed the way you shoot the basketball and things just snowball from there.
This is what has happened to our beloved team. It's not a coaching problem. It's not an effort problem. It's simply a confidence problem.
In yesterday's Birmingham Post Herald, Rubin Grant posted a summary of an interview he had with CBS analyst Billy Packer. Here is a quotation from that article:
"I went to their practice. That's where you can learn a lot about a team, how the players relate to their coach. What impressed me is they were listening to their coach and working on the things they needed to work on.
"I'm not close to any of the players, but they seemed like a great bunch of kids. What they need is one player to step up and give them a shot in the arm. That player might be (freshman forward) Kennedy Winston. They could turn it around, but it's a short season."
The entire article can be read at http://www.postherald.com/sp021103.shtml.
While I do not particularly like Packer as an analyst, he does know the game of basketball. Even he can see the major problem with our team.
Dick Vitale said almost the same thing when interviewed during halftime of the Michigan St.-Wisconsin game last evening. He went on to say that BAMA had lost the swagger it had early in the season when we beat Oklahoma.
So BAMA fans of the world, I call on each one of you to stop critcizing the effort and coaching of our team. They need our support. Someone on the team is going to make a big shot in an important game real soon that will turn the tide (pardon the pun) of our season. When that happens, you will see the true colors of this team.
I live in North Carolina and this is my busiest season of the year so I can't get to any games in Tuscaloosa. I have purchased tickets to the tutorsee game next weekend and I plan to show up and support my team. I encourage you to attend games and support the team when possible.
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2001, allbarn! 2002, tutorsee! 2003, AP National Champions
Axis of evil: AU UT UF
Tommy Burgess
tomkandi@bellsouth.net
[This message has been edited by BAMAFAN61 (edited February 12, 2003).]
Missing a lot of shots causes you to lose your confidence faster than making shots gives your confidence a boost. When you start missing shots, you start tweeking with your rhythm, technique, follow-through, etc. This is expecially true if the poor shooting extends for several games. Before you know it, you have radically changed the way you shoot the basketball and things just snowball from there.
This is what has happened to our beloved team. It's not a coaching problem. It's not an effort problem. It's simply a confidence problem.
In yesterday's Birmingham Post Herald, Rubin Grant posted a summary of an interview he had with CBS analyst Billy Packer. Here is a quotation from that article:
"I went to their practice. That's where you can learn a lot about a team, how the players relate to their coach. What impressed me is they were listening to their coach and working on the things they needed to work on.
"I'm not close to any of the players, but they seemed like a great bunch of kids. What they need is one player to step up and give them a shot in the arm. That player might be (freshman forward) Kennedy Winston. They could turn it around, but it's a short season."
The entire article can be read at http://www.postherald.com/sp021103.shtml.
While I do not particularly like Packer as an analyst, he does know the game of basketball. Even he can see the major problem with our team.
Dick Vitale said almost the same thing when interviewed during halftime of the Michigan St.-Wisconsin game last evening. He went on to say that BAMA had lost the swagger it had early in the season when we beat Oklahoma.
So BAMA fans of the world, I call on each one of you to stop critcizing the effort and coaching of our team. They need our support. Someone on the team is going to make a big shot in an important game real soon that will turn the tide (pardon the pun) of our season. When that happens, you will see the true colors of this team.
I live in North Carolina and this is my busiest season of the year so I can't get to any games in Tuscaloosa. I have purchased tickets to the tutorsee game next weekend and I plan to show up and support my team. I encourage you to attend games and support the team when possible.
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2001, allbarn! 2002, tutorsee! 2003, AP National Champions
Axis of evil: AU UT UF
Tommy Burgess
tomkandi@bellsouth.net
[This message has been edited by BAMAFAN61 (edited February 12, 2003).]
