Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Into the Fire
On Saturday, March 22 I was lucky enough to score some tickets to the NCAA tournament games in the afternoon. The first game featured Stanford vs. Marquette and the second was UCLA vs. Texas A&M. I want to ask a question though for you to respond. What would you do if the guy or girl who gets all the attention on your team was injured or unable to play for some reason. How would you respond? Stanford had the chance to deal with that on Saturday when their head coach received double technicals and was thrown out of the game. When your coach is thrown out, everything changes. He or she has his/her system: plays they prefer to run, substitution patterns, methods for how they talk to the team, etc...But what about when your coach is gone or the player who scores 20 ponts/game for you goes down. Stanford found out they had two big men, brothers I think, who refused to lose. Brook Lopez scored the winning basket shooting an awkward baseline jumphook with only seconds left to play. It was a grind-it-out kind of win for Stanford while being coached by the guy who never gets any attention, the assistant coach. What do you think about stepping up when the coach or player in front of you goes down? How do you prepare for something like that so you're ready when it happens? Have you ever been in that situation?
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Yo, my first thoughts at the Stanford game were that they were going to lose bad after the coach got tossed. I was surprised to see them not fold up and get embarassed by Marquette. They were definitely not as athletic as Marquette but they got the ball to the right person when it mattered. UCLA almost lost because they did the opposite. They wouldn't throw the ball to the big-time K-love who is a str8 baller, PAC-10 player of the year.
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