Unfortunatley coach Smith had to leave the show early to go watch Apple Valley / Lakeville South so there wasn't really time for Tubby. Jamal Abu-Shamala and Saul Smith took his place about halfway through. I am going again on the 20th though and will hopefully get a question asked then. FWIW, Oto, Mav and Welch were all there shooting with Mav staying for quite a while.
Coach Smith was also very nice and went around and shook everyone's hands.
Some things that he talked about, and I am definitley missing things as I was more focused on listening, but some things I found interesting:
1) Talked about the Nebraska practice facility (This was brought up by Mike Grimm, not Tubby) and they talked about some of the things they saw. They mentioned the TV's in the bathroom stall, the Ipads in the lockers, etc. Also mentioned that each player has their own individual shower. It has 4 showerheads (one on each side) they are sound proof and play the music from your locker mounted iPad. There is also a 105" TV that hangs in the practice facility and at any time during practice, the coach can stop things and watch a previous play or previous part of practice. There is also somewhere that the coach can sit and can just say, "Show Joe Coleman shooting on hoop 5" and the camera switches to that court. Sounded pretty impressive. Tubby then mentioned that it is a disadvantage not having one, but that the school still has numerous positives that he sells. Great school, great city, great fans, etc.
2)Tubby mentioned that one stat they look at is player efficiency rating, I believe this is the John Hollinger PER. He said it is the same stat the NBA uses. They use it to see who had a good game for them.
3) They asked about fans clamoring for different players starting and he said that guys don't earn starting spots for 1-2 games they earn it over the entire season and off season. That he can see how hard guys have worked and the time they've put in, one game doesn't earn you a starting spot, constant hard work does.
4) Talked about Joe Coleman not scoring lately. He said that teams are starting to scout him now and know that he wants to drive and draw contact. He mentioned some times during the Nebraska game where teams just sag off and he would drive and go for contact and the defender just backed away and Joe lost it. Tubby said he needs to shoot the open jump shot when he has it to keep teams honest. They are playing him for the drive now.
5) He went on to talk about even though Joe didn't score, he was still very happy with his play. He was being where he needed to on deffense and grabbed 7 rebounds. Said he doesn't mind if a guy isn't scoring, because there are numerous ways you can impact a game without scoring.
6) Talked more about scouting and with a young team, guys come in thinking, well in High School we never had a scouting report I was just better than everyone else ... and took a guy off of the dribble or blocked his shot or whatever. Mentioned that Draymond Green is a player who spends hours studying film and that is how he has gotten to be such a smart player. Said he isn't inherintly smarter than anyone else, but the work he puts in the film room gives him a great basketball IQ. He said as players get older and more mature they will start to learn the value of watching film and the scouting report and game plan. They will understand that what they are looking at is the same thing other teams will look at for them and they also need to figure out ways to take make an impact and become a well-rounded player.
7) Talked about Chip Armelin a lot and how great he is in the open floor. Said he liked about the Nebraska game that they rebounded and got turnovers. Talked about how the lack of rebounding and turnovers had really limited their transition gane, but once they get rebounds/turnovers you can push the ball better and if you score more you can press easier and more often as well.
8) Mentioned that the points in transition wasn't all Chip, and when a guy has a good game he also needs to thank his teammates. Mentioned specifically the play where Rodney dove for the ball and flipped it for the break. Especially mentioned that they have a lot of assists as a team so they play very well together and are all contributing.
9) Lastly, he talked about Elliot playing in front of his friends and family and how efficiently he played. However, he also told a story about when he was playing football and he never played but with a few minutes left and the game decided his family started chanting "We Want Tubby" "We Want Tubby" and so the coach called him over and said, "TUBBY! You might want to go up there, I think your family wants you" it was a pretty funny story.
10) One of the best stories came from Saul Smith. They asked him about playing basketball and coaching and everything. He talked about how he didn't really want a life in basketball. He liked playing and everything, but it wasn't a very stable life. He wanted to live a normal life he did work at a law firm for awhile, but then was drawn to coaching and helping kids develop. He talked about the differences in coaching and playing saying that in coaching all you can do is prepare the kids the best that you can, but ultimatley they are the ones making the plays and you can't go out there and defend for them.
He talked about playing PG for his dad and said that he'd (Tubby) call plays from the sideline and Saul would just think, "Yeah, Okay dad, I'm gonna call this other play, if Jamaal Magloire is calling for the ball, I'm going to give it to him". He had to live with the big guy and was more concerned with him beating him up for not getting him the ball, so he was going to feed him lol
I'll add to this if I remember other things.
