Big Night of Basketball, Part II

[ChoppinBroccoli]

Tonight, right here in Richmond, the Virginia Class 6 Basketball Championship is being held. It's a chance to go see a game at the Siegel Center without all the annoying side effects!

The Lake Braddock Bruins are playing in their first ever state basketball final.Two seasons ago, after struggling to a 1-4 start, their coach scrapped everything and went to a radical system. Constant full-court press, run all the time, mass substitutions, everybody shoots a ton of 3s and layups.

A chaotic style has this high school team topping 100 points — and driving opponents crazy

Their star player, Quentin James, was unanimous Patriot Conference player of the year. He broke Hubert Davis's all-time scoring record at Lake Braddock. He has committed to Davidson.....to play football. The system helped a football player break a record held by a UNC star and NBA player.

"Oh Quentin, there's a Mr. McKillop on the phone."

“We’ve never really had a problem with anyone buying into this system,” James said. “Because the fact that everyone has the green light, what high school are you going to go to where everyone is allowed to shoot the ball without consequences?”

I'm fascinated by this story (not just because of homerism). I'll be there tonight so I can see this system in action live. I'm sure there are a dozen reasons why this could never work in the A10, but I don't know. It sounds like what Loyola Marymount ran years ago. What do y'all think?


Add Metress to the list.
(kidding)
(sort of)

 

[nathanw19]

Tonight, right here in Richmond, the Virginia Class 6 Basketball Championship is being held. It's a chance to go see a game at the Siegel Center without all the annoying side effects!

The Lake Braddock Bruins are playing in their first ever state basketball final.Two seasons ago, after struggling to a 1-4 start, their coach scrapped everything and went to a radical system. Constant full-court press, run all the time, mass substitutions, everybody shoots a ton of 3s and layups.

A chaotic style has this high school team topping 100 points — and driving opponents crazy

Their star player, Quentin James, was unanimous Patriot Conference player of the year. He broke Hubert Davis's all-time scoring record at Lake Braddock. He has committed to Davidson.....to play football. The system helped a football player break a record held by a UNC star and NBA player.

"Oh Quentin, there's a Mr. McKillop on the phone."



I'm fascinated by this story (not just because of homerism). I'll be there tonight so I can see this system in action live. I'm sure there are a dozen reasons why this could never work in the A10, but I don't know. It sounds like what Loyola Marymount ran years ago. What do y'all think?


Add Metress to the list.
(kidding)
(sort of)

I don’t think a system like that could work in the A-10. However, I do think a coach who is willing to scrap his style and switch to something new and/or radical because he realizes his current system isn’t getting it done, could definitely work in the A-10.

 

[MolivaManiac]

Who is Lake Braddock playing? Time?

 

[spider23]

Good stuff, good luck to your Bruins. Take away is that the coach saw it wasn't working and changed, was flexible - something Mooney is not.

I really think at our level you have to take the best players available, not strictly recruiting for system. Mooney seemed to figure this out fairly early, bringing in the likes of Kevin Smith and Darius Garrett. You do need your brand, your one or two things you do well, BUT you need to be able to adjust to your talent, unless you are a UNC, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke and get the players you want every year.

I do recall VMI had some success going to a very high tempo system 8-10 years ago, but it faded out. Heck, even Rhody's coach for life Jim Barron changed up and went with a fast paced style with some success, though ultimately not enough. I'm sure others recall Moon talking about this every pre-season, and rebounding.

Hope you enjoy the game Broc!

 

[ChoppinBroccoli]

Who is Lake Braddock playing? Time?

8 pm. Landstown out of Va Beach.

 

[ChoppinBroccoli]

LB only 10 points in the first quarter.

The...um...demographics of this game are very similar to the state final in "Hoosiers."

I would not be exaggerating to say Landstown has at least a dozen offensive rebounds.

 

[MolivaManiac]

LB only 10 points in the first quarter.

The...um...demographics of this game are very similar to the state final in "Hoosiers."

I would not be exaggerating to say Landstown has at least a dozen offensive rebounds.

Keep the updates coming. Its all we have right now.

 

[SpiderK]

Speaking of “Hoosiers”. I can certainly tell you that no one on the UR team has any idea what kind of gum Holloway is chewing.

 

[ChoppinBroccoli]

We need a pep talk from Coach Dale.

They have better athletes and we're ice cold from 3.

 

[SpiderK]

We need a pep talk from Coach Dale.

They have better athletes and we're ice cold from 3.

We get caught watching the paint dry every time

 

[ChoppinBroccoli]

We get caught watching the paint dry every time

Maybe they were right about us. Maybe we don't belong up here.