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SouthernBoiNOLA writes:

in response to oldster:

College coaches seem to have always been overly enamored by "athletic" basketball players. Martin adds to this by being in love with "length." As a result, UT has a bunch of long, athletic basketball players -none of whom can put the ball in the basket with sufficient regularity from a distance of more than a foot. I.e. Martin, like many other coaches, put too little emphasis on the ability to score. They simply think that scoring just comes natural. With Martin, this might be more ingrained than with others, because it did come naturally to him. You know that "they" say, "Those that can, do. Those that can't coach." Since Martin could (and can) shoot, he cannot coach it (at least so it appears).

I don't know about this team having a lot of "athletic" players. I think there are only two players on the team that I would consider athletic Mcrae and Richardson (maybe Yemi, but he just so raw). Stokes is not athletic at all. His game is all about power. McBee, Golden, Hall, I don't think so. The rest of don't really matter anyway cept maybe Reese, but the jury is still out on him.

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