Don't know if it's significant but @CALUofPAWBB tweeted welcome to the school year to only two players... Bianca Jasper (5'6" PG Middletown Pa) and Taylin Tyler (6'0" F Obama Acad) this week which seems unusually low for the program. May be others not mentioned or may be effort to balance the past two classes but it worries me just a bit because replacing MIKI, LANA, PRECIOUS and BRITTANY is a big task even for the VULCAN WBB machine. Time will tell.
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Oh great. But then, way back in the late '60s, I felt the same way after the first week. Kids nowadays are different. We stuck it out for 4 years....Today, so many transfer 3 to 4 times before they are out. After 3 whole days is silly, though.
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Originally posted by Feedoggie View PostOh swell. That's not what one wants to hear. She may turn out to be one of those who spends her career on the bench.
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Originally posted by CALUPA69 View PostOr, best case scenario, she turns into another # 42 KAYLA SMITH who played her entire career with some serious knee hardware. What a force she was.
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Originally posted by Feedoggie View PostIf only a wish like that would come true! Didn't Kayla get injured in her first preseason game? I believe she sat the rest of her freshmen year. The next year she made immediate impact, and began a great career. IMO, she was a once in a lifetime player on par with Brooque Williams, Kaitlyn Fratz and Miki Glenn.
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Originally posted by CALUPA69 View PostOr, best case scenario, she turns into another # 42 KAYLA SMITH who played her entire career with some serious knee hardware. What a force she was.
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Originally posted by IUP CRIMSON HAWKS View PostI think the thing that I immediately recall when I hear the name Kayla Smith is not what a great player she was or the crazy powerful build she had--- but rather how many times she would kick the ball back out to her guards. Amazingly selfless player who obviously cared more about winning than personal glory or stats. That kind of stands out to me.
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Interestingly the bigs that COACH STROM has had lately have been more racehorse than workhorse, with speed and the ability to move with the ball, rather than grinders. Which seems to have worked out and is why she's the coach. And I'm not.
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Good point. Think back to the late 90s and early 00s ... guys like IUP's Dennis Mimms and Cal's Ra-Shaun Roberts ... those were power forwards. I even see Tony Richardson and the big center at Seton Hill as being the end of an era to the old PSAC West big man. Teams are playing faster and recruiting post players who can shoot the three. The post players in that era were like 6'8" defensive ends. Some scary dudes.
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Yup, you guys are right. The game has changed a lot. It seems like the classic position of center in basketball has all but vanished. Think about all the legendary bangers in NBA history---Wilt the Stilt, Kareem, Bill Russell, The Big Chief Robert Parrish, Shaq, et al. The list could go on and on. It may be a lot of years before we ever see the likes of them again.
It's a completely different game now it seems. Multiple guards who can run and gun. Smaller and faster and quicker lineups. Usually four guard types and someone who can rebound a bit but usually not a traditional banger in the paint in the historic sense.
Take a look at how Joe Lombardi changed his personnel philosophy the last four or five years to better counter what West Liberty was doing.
My niece is a big power forward in the fifth grade now. I do wonder what the game will be like for her in the coming years. Will she have a place in it or will her type be completely phased out by the time she reaches varsity level?
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Originally posted by IUP CRIMSON HAWKS View PostYup, you guys are right. The game has changed a lot. It seems like the classic position of center in basketball has all but vanished. Think about all the legendary bangers in NBA history---Wilt the Stilt, Kareem, Bill Russell, The Big Chief Robert Parrish, Shaq, et al. The list could go on and on. It may be a lot of years before we ever see the likes of them again.
It's a completely different game now it seems. Multiple guards who can run and gun. Smaller and faster and quicker lineups. Usually four guard types and someone who can rebound a bit but usually not a traditional banger in the paint in the historic sense.
Take a look at how Joe Lombardi changed his personnel philosophy the last four or five years to better counter what West Liberty was doing.
My niece is a big power forward in the fifth grade now. I do wonder what the game will be like for her in the coming years. Will she have a place in it or will her type be completely phased out by the time she reaches varsity level?
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