BC new recruits are watching the situation and hopefully will stay, but to what end?
It is a complex delicate psychological and athletic balance between maybe the kids are not enamored with the stupid flex or Al's Coaching Style, or the the flex doesn't fit their style--- and when they are disinterested, ergo they stop hustling and playing defense, and they lose that inner intensity and drive to excel.
There is a fine line between losing a team and failure to motivate a team.
You can't motivate hustle, desire, intensity, rebounding is nothing by WANT-TO, boxing out or team spirit--IF!!--there is an real dislike for the Head Coach's style or system.
If the team doesn't want to do all these things, then they are sending Al Skinner a message about his coaching and his poor in game management skills, and Al isn't gonna be "flexible" and change. No Way!
Maybe the rigid flex, ---(I love that oxymoron)-- is a bigger problem than we though?
Last year we have 4 guys watching Rice dribble, turnover, chuck, drive and lose the ball or foul and now we have guys who never learned the flex system since last year was a washout and now have no interest in Al or a failed system?
The 74 suggestion about a new trapping, pressing and running style should be implemented...BUT...then again Southern and Dunn are poor, poor post players and it would take others to crash the glass while the other 2 or 3 were breaking up the floor. Maybe a change ignites the intensity to box out and rebound and run and it works and fits their playing style?
To me with Al sad recruiting issues in the past few years and style, Al Skinner needs to be fired in March. I see no turn around with this under talented and lazy on defense bunch. Your defense and in you grille coverage sets up easy hoops, the crown gets rolling and lifts a team.
Maybe Al is just tired as he looks and its time for a rejuvenation change?
This team is now "El Conte De La Ole Matador Casa!"
No way this team makes the NCAA and wins at least 2 games so I say BC should fire him immediately
Maybe this next story will help Poor AL Skinner.
Say thank you for my presence and humble, humble genius!!
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Fuck the retractable dome, build a Loop 128 Atom Smasher and create a black hole over Alumni and Conte and when the other teams show up, turn on that beetch, and swallow the othe team whole.
AL Skinner Atom Smasher Exposes Hole in BC's Defenses:
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The largest machine in the history of the world has gradually begun to operate in a small town outside Geneva. The policy questions that the endeavor raises are bigger than the machine.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most ambitious physics experiment ever. Buried in deep underground tunnels and covering a loop of about 16.5 miles, it consumes about the same amount of energy as a large city.
The LHC will explore the most important unresolved questions in physics. In particular, it could provide evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson, a hypothesized particle that has become known as the God particle. If it is found to exist, it could complete our understanding of the basic laws of the universe.
Accelerators such as the LHC work by bashing energetic beams of particles together, then studying the detritus. The high-energy LHC is like a telescope with an extra-powerful lens. It will allow scientists to see things they have never seen before, because its energy is about seven times greater than that of the most powerful accelerator to date.
That high energy has caused significant controversy. Some have warned that the collider’s energy could induce a catastrophic event. A brilliant review of the risks associated with the experiment by University of North Dakota law professor Eric Johnson has made me think twice about an experiment I have always favored.
There are many things that theoretically could go terribly wrong, some of them quite exotic. The chief threat is that the LHC’s high-energy collisions might create a microscopic black hole that would, perhaps over a few years, swallow the Earth.
