Dean Smith

Diop? Dude ran well in the full court drills and I didn’t pull out a tape measure but if he’s not 6’10 with a 7’3 wing span it wasn’t obvious. I have no reason to doubt those measurements. He did hit five threes in a row which is substantially better than what you or I could do.

You could see how the offense stagnated when Gio went off. He is the straw that stirs the drink. Weah had a great two games. Put Adams behind as a pure 6 and that front 5 can cook.

Apparently the metric they used to determine the coaching hire this time around was created by Gregg. Surprisingly it turns out he fits that metric the best. Craig Burley on ESPN FC said everyone involved in the decision were “a bunch of muppets.” We had to hire an outside firm because no one in USA soccer knows what they’re doing? And we end up where we started? Gio has shown he’s more important to the team than Gregg is. He needs to play in the middle from here on out. And Flo is the striker we’ve needed. A clinical finisher on top takes this team to a whole new level.

Facts but I bet the first thing out of Huggins’s mouth when the police came to his window was, “Do you fuckn’ know who I am?”

Incompetence - it wasn’t supposed to come out

Gio plays great game - goes into locker room afterwards and checks twitter

I said Scotland and Austria were maybes. I have not watched a lot of lower table French teams and I doubt too many people have. When I look at the statistical power rankings, Ligue 1 is fifth (one listed them 6th behind Brazil) and the MLS was 15-17th. Behind leagues like Greek, Turks, and Ukrainian. I’m not a soccer snob. I watch the owls in USL 1 and even went to the high school state tournament. I’ll watch the MLS and have gone to quite a few games. The level of play is not good compared to other countries. Having admitted I’ve not watched a lot of lower level French football, I find it hard to believe any MLS team could stay up in that league. We have what the call potential. Hopefully one day we will live up to it.

I think most of the world sees Ligue 1 as the 5th of the top 5 leagues. Any of their "scrub" teams would run the MLS. There need to be many changes made before the MLS can actually be competitive on the world stage (time of season + relegation and promotion to begin with). I hope someday they make those changes but I'm not holding my breath. Leagues better than the MLS would include the Netherlands, Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, Russia, Belgium, Turkey, possibly Austria and Scotland and definately better is the Championship, England's second division.

Maybe one of the only correct insights I've ever had on this board.

It depends on who your audience is. Unless you're a fan of college recruiting then you don't know either of them. I'm sure there has to be lots of people that know Bol and would have no idea who the football guy is. Obviously, a football recruit is going to be more well known than a basketball recruit in the state of Nebraska.

Sam could do a lot but he was not good at creating a shot for himself at the end of the clock.

It can be coached. Today's terminology referrers to it as creating a culture. It starts by weeding out the "bad apples" regardless of their talent and then it helps to bring in a couple that do have it on the inside and they can help create that culture where it is more than expected but demanded from all involved. Having a roster that is competing for time can also create a greater work effort over all but I guess that would be on the recruiting side.

ChatGPT is not connected to the internet so none of its info is current. It thinks it’s two years ago.

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All the studies show the sooner a kid specializes the greater chance they drop out all together and the number of injuries skyrockets due to the continuous and repetitive stress that comes from playing the same sport year around. I know lots of college coaches that would recruit a two-sport athlete over one who only plays "their" sport when all things are equal. If you are going to specialize, wait until after your sophomore year at least. The benefits far outway any negatives. I was a small school, three sport kid but I guarantee you that I managed to get my basketball skill work in year around.

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I’m going to share my best tip and trick - practice it. As the year goes on and you have the packages in you want, I always did more and more situational play. From an entire OT to 1 sec left. Every special situation play from any inbound point, to needing a 2 or a 3, being or not being in the bonus all needs multiple reps I always thought. So they never saw anything drawn up in a game, just reminded of what they had repped many times. It also allowed you to run stuff without a TO. You can’t duplicate the pressure but you can cause chaos. Give them a situation. Team down 4 with the ball and 30 seconds left. Offense scores and takes a TO. Me - “Technical foul. You’re out of time outs. If they say they didn’t know I would say you didn’t ask. Team needs to foul to stop clock so player fouls - “that’s five, you’re out.” Didn’t know - should of asked. The hope was to get players thinking about the information they would need to be successful instead of the situation itself. It worked with some groups. I did have a team that would come in the huddle after regulation and the point would start talking beginning with number of time outs both teams had, whose in the bonus or double bonus, ask, “whose got fouls trouble?” And even a how about we do “A” if we have to get a bucket. That team saw 5 over times that year. I felt I had truly done my job that year when they showed they didn’t really need me any more. We had over come a 19 point deficit with 2 minutes left with the ball but no timeouts left. Point made a call that basically meant nothing but a layup, at 1 minute switched into the closest thing we had to a delay and at 15 seconds he set up the last shot play they knew was just what we did in that situation. Got the shot we wanted and even a follow up but neither went. In the huddle before the start of OT they ran through all the things they needed to know with out me saying anything. At the first horn my point says to me, “A” has been good to us tonight, start with that? I just nodded and told them to keep doing what they’ve been doing and sent them out. I knew we were going to win that one because we were focused on the what’s and they couldn’t get past the situation of giving up a 19 point lead to have to play overtime. Good times. Did I mention that game was a conference tourney semi against our school’s biggest rival? Thanks @basketballjones for giving me a reason to stroll down memory lane. Those were the days.

I'm old. It's much less physical today then it was in the "old days."

True but it makes absolutely no sense.

I know various groups are working the concession stands as a fund raiser. Not sure how that works.

It doesn’t sound like It was a miscommunication. The phrase that seems to have been used is “role will be limited.” It appears to be blame on both sides but Greg why would you do that?

I find it hard to believe that GB expects to be back the way he threw Gio under the bus. There seems to be blame to go both ways but you can’t coach a team that doesn’t trust you and no one’s trusting him at this point. He has to go. And why would you tell one of your very top players your role will be limited?

Japan all time worst shootout, making only one of 4 pens. Spain - hold my cerveza.

Flo Balogun - 21 years old Has played for both US and England youth teams. Also eligible to represent Nigeria. Currently playing for Reims in league 1. 8 goals in 15 appearances this season. On loan from Arsenal. Good finisher, good techinical ability, can take people on off the dribble and has a very high work.