H0thead

14-55 in the last two seasons. No bashing here, just TRUTHS. Coaching ,coaching, coaching. From those three words come all things basketball!... attitude, toughness, cohesiveness, teamwork, direction, TEACHING, LEADERSHIP, and most importantly DISCIPLINE. Anybody that has been to see RCHS knows that these are values that are not prominent. These are just kids! I know as a parent that children NEED guidance every single day. Left to their own devices they will always choose the path of least resistance. The fact is....don't we all? No team can be consistently good without good leadership? Leadership has to start with the coaches. A coach may know his Xs and Os but they need to do more than that. Ultimately, responsibility starts at the top, just like in the everyday work place. Management has to set policies and rules. If workers don't follow the rules there are consequences or you flat out loose your job. These policies are equal for ALL. Nobody can be above what is best for the company, and management has the duty to enforce this culture. "The team" is the company and coach Anderson is the management in this case. This is the model that will ultimately bring Kingston back to respectability. Coach Anderson needs to start enforcing very clearly conveyed rules and goals CONSISTENTLY from the first day of practice. He and his assistant need to TEACH FUNDAMENTALS such as ballhandling, passing, rebounding and defensive drills EVERY DAY at practice. When they are loafing or not doing anything right, LET EM KNOW IT!!! Hard practices make better players and ultimately a better team. Coaches have to ensure that expectations are understood and are followed BY EVERY PLAYER consistently, whether they are a senior or a freshman, a starter or a sub. If a player can't or won't do what the coach DEMANDS at practies or in games, they don't play! (do any of these look familiar?) You don't box out; you sit...you make bad passes; you sit...you don't hustle every minute on the floor; you sit...you talk back; you sit...you pout on the floor or bench;you sit...you call out another teammate on the floor; you sit. Tell the offender why they are sitting and that they can go back in when they do what is expected. A player may be a great athlete but there can be no double standards on a team. TEAM being the key word here. It sends a very strong and clear message when there is EQUAL accountability for EVERYONE! I do keep harping on the "EVERYONE" theme here, coaches included!. If you have been to see this team you know some players are held less accountable than others. I am talking about EVERY class here also. Players make mistakes. Coaches make mistakes. When the same mistakes are made over and over something has to change!!!!! I truly hope coach Anderson reads these posts. There are definately consistent themes in almost all these threads. I understand that we are not the "coach" and that he is. That does not necessarily make him infallible. Sometimes two or more heads are better than one.

I believe that you are talking about sound fundamentals Jacketdad. I could live with that scenario but I want more. Have ya'll watched Pat Head, Bruce Pearl, or any successful coach for that matter. They DEMAND RESPECT FOR THE GAME and THEMSELVES. I don't see that from Kingston coaches. I want to see Kingston sports respected again! I want coaching that knows how to get the job done! I want coaching that teaches excellence, expects excellence, and accepts nothing but excellence from themselves and the players. The bench is a great motivator for girls that are true athletes and have any sense of pride. When they are on the bench tell them why they are there and that is where they will stay if they don't do what they were taught! On this team the players that are benched just sit and pout or worse separate a chair down at the end of the bench and have nothig to do with THEIR team. After seeing the girls play I know that the coach doesn't teach that culture. Warmups are sloppy the bench is sloppy and the team is sloppy. Those three items are all aspects of basketball; not just what is going on on the floor. This culture won't always translate into wins but it will reverse those horrid stats relayed earlier in this forum. I would just about guarantee that if this was the model that the Kingston coaches would use we would be much more competitive. And a lot of fans would be much happier and more proud of our girls!!! AND coaches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jabstep??? Seen him do what? I read your (mostly accurate) scouting report so you obviously have been to see this team play pretty often. He has demonstrated all season that he is only willing to try and fit a square post in a round hole!!! He has had the perfect opportunity to get all his young players some PT but as I said in another post he just lets the same people make the same mistakes over and over and over and over.... He runs that pathetic 5 out offense designed for guards or a shooting team! Stone Memorial could use that offense but Kingston needs to scrap it!!!! Baskeball always was and always will be an inside out out game. To take posts and put them on the perimeter is STUPID! Who will rebound? Not the guards. The coach doesn't seem to impress upon the ENTIRE team that they need to rebound. I know that long shots create long rebounds (alot in Kingston's case) but to put your posts out there is senseless. Even if your scouting report is true and the starting post makes 30% of her shots, that is still better than the 2-5% (I'm being generous here!) of shots the perimeter players make. Posts need to be in the paint. Bigdave25 says to give him some time. I don't want to watch poor coaching over and over and over......

This is my first time on this board and man I got a lot to say about all the posts , so I will start here! Figuratively yes, but after looking at those stats what coach worth their salt wouldn't try to change this trend. Answer:Not Kingston's. Watching the same people make the same mistakes game after game is maddening! The coach needs to MAKE the players do what he wants. If they don't; sit them down and let someone else try to do it better. Make a player understand that if you don't do it right you won't do it at all!!!!! Trust me, I've been to almost every game and their coach is as quiet as a churh mouse. He should utilize his timeout in the first half and make adjustments or chew some butt!