Another Quote
I was reading an article on espn.com about the University of Connecticut Basketball Coaching staff and associate head coach George Blaney said something that is short, but says exactly what a team needs to do. “Play at a Championship Pace.”
While this may seem easy enough from the outside looking in, playing at that pace is harder than it looks. I have seen glimpses of it in my time here at Lynn. In the article, one of the assistants, Patrick Sellers, echoed that getting players to play hard is one of the most difficult things in coaching. There are some players that I have been around who don’t need a coach to get them to play, but I have seen just as many who no matter what coaches have said or done, think that their ways work, then learn the hard way that they don’t, and yet still don’t play hard to correct it.
I think Coach McMillin does an excellent job of knowing what each player responds to and coaching them as individuals rather than grouping everybody together. Coach knows what a championship pace is and relates that to our players in a way that is simplified and easy to understand.
3 weeks until tip-off!
Gene
