2020 Recruiting
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While I agree that there are a lot of folks who don't know much about basketball, saying "it is just a bunch of old white dudes who love fundamentals..." pretty much shows that you also don't know much about basketball. The best players have the ability to do the incredible things that players never did in my generation, but still understand and work on "the fundamentals", like making free throws, boxing out and getting position for rebounds, watching both the ball and your opponent on defense, understanding the game situation and when to try to make certain plays, playing together and communicating on defense, shot selection, making passes that the passer can make with regularity and guy receiving the ball can catch ... When you have players who are both talented and understand the fundamentals, then you are likely to be successful. If Iowa's two most talented players had been more fundamentally sound the past couple of years, the team would have been much better... (A little more talent and athleticism would have helped too
).While I agree that there are a lot of folks who don't know much about basketball, saying "it is just a bunch of old white dudes who love fundamentals..." pretty much shows that you also don't know much about basketball. The best players have the ability to do the incredible things that players never did in my generation, but still understand and work on "the fundamentals", like making free throws, boxing out and getting position for rebounds, watching both the ball and your opponent on defense, understanding the game situation and when to try to make certain plays, playing together and communicating on defense, shot selection, making passes that the passer can make with regularity and guy receiving the ball can catch ... When you have players who are both talented and understand the fundamentals, then you are likely to be successful. If Iowa's two most talented players had been more fundamentally sound the past couple of years, the team would have been much better... (A little more talent and athleticism would have helped too
To use a baseball reference, I heard Brooks Robinson speak once and he talked about the fundamentals of baseball are simply: running, catching, throwing and hitting. He said he wasn't the fastest guy, didn't have the strongest arm, nor was he the most powerful hitter, but he worked on the fundamentals over an over until he became a machine, "Hoover" in fact, one double digit gold gloves and ended up in the Hall of Fame. I am not so trite as to say he didn't have talent, but rather it was the combination of his talent and his work ethic that got him where he was.
Back to a basketball reference: we used to marvel at Michael Jordan's "creativity in the air", but then if you read Phil Jackson's book you will learn that in coaching Michael, they used to put shoe-shaped prints on the floor so he could practice his different steps and launch points, thus the creativity may have been less spontaneous (I think he had that too!) and more practiced as a fundamental than we recognize.
He's definitely talented and athletic but lol he's schooling small town Iowa boys in those highlights.
As opposed to what, being schooled?
Hasn't he also been impressive in summer ball?
Wtf do any of those questions have to do with my post?
Of course he's been impressive. There's a reason he's a 5 star.
The highlight video is funny though, because those kids look like middle schoolers compared to Foster. That doesn't mean I was saying he's not that good as a result.
Easy, I wasn't the only one who thought you were saying more. Glad you clarified. This kid is going to be a star.
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