A smoke blower you are. Apparently you do not look at the entire picture of a basketball team. Five players are placed on the floor that can contribute to the team as a whole. A person does not have to name names if they are looking for a team. I believe you are greatly mistaken if you think that he plays "who is who." Apparently you haven't learned of the disciplining that Coach Yaden has brought forth to the team. Apparently you likewise have not learned that it does not matter who you are, friends family or foe, you are on the court if you have the capabilities and can produce teamwork. You need to attend more games and look at the team as a whole. He is not the previous coach. He is his own person and if you view the improvement in the team as a whole, you can see this. I would like to see the coach that everyone gives an A rating. I have yet to hear of one. You need to support the team and the coach. It is not your decision to make the calls on who should play. You are not the person trained to be in charge.
I don't agree much with this statement. As a coach you want to put the best 5 on the court; however, Coach Yaden seems to not care about who the best are. Which in turn has cost the team greatly over the course of the past couple of games. I'm not saying that he doesn't know what he's doing, but it seems to me that he's more worried about who's who instead of who's good. Maybe it's just me, but when I see players such as: Torrey Slaven, Dylan West,
Johnathan Lewallen, Braxton Hutson, Mark Miller, and others whom of which I know contributed a lot to last year's team sitting on the bench, it disheartens me. I don't see why a coach wouldn't want to do everything in his power to win. Yes, I'm aware that most of the boys have been caught up in football but honestly they had absolutely no power over the situation. The others may have had a month head-start on the football boys, but I honestly don't think it made a difference. No disrespect towards the Laxton and the Jeffers boy, they are outstanding players. I've been to every game for the past two years and I've seen what these boys can do. Coach Yaden just doesn't seem to want to face the facts and see how good they and has brought the team down tremendously. Everyone talks about how there's no discipline, but what do you expect from a coach who has had very little if any coaching experience on this level. Why would you throw someone into a situation where they have little experience and give them assistants that are barely able to be called assistants. Oneida is capable of a lot more than what has been shown. Coach Yaden is a good coach, he's a great coach on middle school level, but I guess it'll just be stated that I'm blowing smoke cause I'm mad cause MY kid doesn't get to play. Well I don't have a kid or any relation within this mess. I'm just a basketball fan who calls it like they see it.