Eyes and Ears

Congrats to Cooper on their trip to regionals. Does anyone know when the last time Conner made the trip?

This year? Conner has been struggling for several years.

Looks like the Cougars are picking up where they left off last year.

This game should get ugly in a hurry. Conner doesn't have the talent they had last year when they still lost to Dixie. The players Conner does return have limited varsity experience. To top it off, Dixie probably knows their plays. Even without Pike on the floor, I am thinking Dixie wins by around 15 points and gets to use its bench quite a bit. I like Byrns and Hemmerich for Conner and I have heard they were playing well over the summer. Who broke their hand? Byrns? I think the Dixie guards will dominate this game. No answer for Hatton.

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I remember seeing the Hedger kid play for Turkeyfoot and I was not overly impressed. I did however see him play over the summer with his AAU team and if I am not mistaken, he may have dropped 20+ on an Indiana team. There was a huge improvement over a short period in time.

Is one of them named Hedger? He played for Turkeyfoot last year, I am assuming he would be at Dixie this year. I saw him playing at the bearcat classic over the summer and he looked really good in the post. He was about 6'3" then.

To those of us who followed his career in high school this isn't a surprise at all. This path was started a long time ago and is filled with a whole bunch of enablers who allowed his basketball talents to get in the way of doing the right thing for the kid. Not saying it isn't a tough environment at Holmes at times but there are success stories from these types of environments.

Exactly.

Interesting representation by both sides. Who selects the players?

If they are going to do it they better try this season because after this year the Colonels will lack size on the post.

For maybe only a year. Their freshman class has some pretty big boys coming up.

Congrats to Bobby. This kid was one heck of a high school player and as hard as he works he will be a very good college player as well. He was very fun to watch.

Yeah, that is correct, forgot it was AAU sanctioned event.

 

In NCAA Certified events, unsigned seniors can play in the U17 division.

Some NCAA certified events do not allow unsigned seniors either. KY Hoopfest is one that does not.

I agree with you 4PP. At the end of the season, Hodges wasn't even one of the top 3 on that Conner team. I am a Hodges fan, but given the level of production throughout the year, this spot should have went elsewhere.

What is the most players ever from one school to make this team? Eastern has 4 this year.

Anyone have results from any of these tournaments? How did the local teams do?

I disagree. The college coaches that I have spoken to about this could care less about AAU. They would rather see kids play in a disciplined environment.

And they will see them play in a disciplined enviroment after they have discovered them on the AAU circuit.

Good luck to all of the NKY teams.

Congrats to Mr. Thelan.

NKY Heat 17/18 under will be playing their first tournament of the spring at the Bearcat Classic this weekend.

Do you have a roster for this Heat team?

Who are the local teams participating in these tournaments?

My appologies to all of the other sports at Conner High School because my comment was intended to cover the basketball program only. Since we were in the basketball discussion., but I have since seen the light and after reading many postings I now agree that there are no bad coaches out there. Every coach in NKY is a great coach because they all dedicate their time and care about the players. Winning is not important and shouldn't be used to judge success. These coaches take time away from their families to come and sit on that bench for these players and we need to show them some gratitude for this. Who cares if they don't win, who cares if talent goes undeveloped and wasted, who cares if poetential scholarships are lost. That is not what is important. What is important is that these guys be treated wih respect and not criticised for their short comings. I feel so much better now that I understand how this system works. I am going to speak with my boss about implementing a similar system in my workplace where our employees are not graded by how many sales they make, but by how many days they come to work. because gosh darnit they took the time to get out of bed and come in so they need to be appreciated for that. I see that going over real well.

Points stated. Points taken. Good luck to Boone and Ryle.

Hodges didn't play much because Conner needed a prescence inside to help with Stauffer and he continued (as he's done all year) to hang out beyond the 3 pt line, take ill-advised (fading away) shots, and not play with the strength and length that a 6'8 player should. He needs to score inside (as well as outside) but I can't remember him shooting one shot from inside the lane. Hicks benched him mid-year and he seemed to have gotten the message and was playing with a renewed effort, but for some reason the last few games he's reverted to old habits.

 

To address some of the other threads regarding effort--I believe it is the coaches' AND player's responsibility to inspire and produce max effort all the time. This game seemed very typical of the several I have seen from Conner this year. That is, be in a close game at halftime, only to come out and get buried in the 3rd qtr. IMO it doesn't have so much to do with adjustments as it does with the players stepping up and learning how to handle adversity. This team lacked someone who would step up and refuse to lose and lead by example when things got a little tight or tough. They seemed to accept losing or getting beat too easily. I do agree they were overrated talent-wise, but their year is still very disappointing. I wonder if Coach Hicks used last night's post-game speech as a life lesson to not take things for granted and that you need to work hard to achieve your goals. In reading some of the other threads it sounds like something Coach Sullivan might have offered up to his players. I feel for the seniors. There has to be some level of regret that they were not able to have a more successful season as far as W's and L's go.

Ok. Conner needed someone to contain Stauffer. How did that work out? Why not try to play to your own strengths and not just try to counter your opponents. There have not been many teams that have been able to contain Stauffer. Conner hadn't done it 3 games, what makes anyone think they could do it in the fourth. Stauffer has 40 - 45 pounds on Hodges, Hodges has probably 6 inches in wingspan. Maybe play some denial? Maybe you play three bigs and force Ryle to match up with you since Conner had a problem scoring. I will attest that Hodges was not putting up numbers like a 6'8" center should, but that is mainly because he is a 6'8" wing.

Ohhh Nooo ..... Rational logic just entered this thread!

Finally something that makes sense in this thread.

As a coach ... I continue to find it to be hilarious that people think think that motivation is only the coaches job.

It's a two way street ... And in this case ... I have watched this coach with my own eyes for years.

I am sure Jim could do things differently ... But motivation is not something he doesn't pass along.

Before long ... There will be no decent coaches left at Conner ... Because of the whining from the "chosen few"

Are there any there now?