So the energy and intensity of the NCAA tourney is the same as your high school basketball practices?Spaceman Spiff wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 8:32 amWe do disagree. When I was 11, I was on a junior high allstar team. My coach told me he'd forgive mental mistakes but never being outworked.Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 7:59 amI 100% disagree.Spaceman Spiff wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 7:53 amA failure to match the energy and intensity of an opponent isn't something where you need tourney experience.
The energy and intensity needed to beat 6 great teams in a row who are full of stone cold ballers who are dead set on not allowing their season to end is exactly what being in the tournament teaches you.
Teams with players with tournament experience have a distinct advantage in my mind as far as knowing the type of energy and intensity it takes to win it because they’ve been there before.
Anyone who's been an athlete from a young age knows what it's like to have to respond to energy and aggression. When I moved to HS varsity, my first week of practice, a senior took it on himself to hit me in the face every time down court. I got in a fistfight every day that first week.
How to execute, making shots, handling rotations, dealing with pressure...that's more experience based. More importantly, our effort metrics struggled pre-tournament too. The end of the regular season on, defense fell off and you saw open threes, offensive rebounds, etc. that you didn't see OOC.
I think you’re trying to say that the team didn’t put in the required “effort”. I’m saying knowing the level of intensity and energy that is required at the highest levels comes with experience.
It’s fine we disagree, but your theory that they suddenly stopped caring because you were a high school athlete and know exactly what it takes to win a college national championship doesn’t hold water for me. I also don’t think being an NCAA champ means you automatically know what it takes to win an NBA title. But maybe I’m wrong. I didn’t get hit in the face by some sadistic high school senior daily so what do I know?