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more on young mr. cherry, from last night's game:

1 McClymonds 74, #19 Oakland Tech 40: Will Cherry had 13 of his 22 points and six of his 10 rebounds in the first quarter when McClymonds-Oakland built a 21-7 lead, and the Warriors routed visiting Oakland Tech (10-8, 0-2) in the Oakland Athletic League. Damon Powell (18 points) opened the game with a dunk (one of his six), and the Warriors never trailed. Quincy Hill had 10 assists (two on alley-oops to Powell) and 10 steals, setting the tone for the Warriors' pressing defense, which forced 29 turnovers. McClymonds (17-0, 2-0) has won 49 straight games, and goes for its 50th Monday against No. 3 De La Salle at Cal's Haas Pavilion.
 
Here is the article. Good overall game by Cherry. That coach certainly made a huge statement! I love it. I wish more coaches would make stands like that at all levels in all sports.

Oakland Tech's boys basketball team closed its deficit to one point with 5 minutes, 54 seconds remaining in Wednesday's Oakland Athletic League game with first-place McClymonds, whose starters stayed on the bench.

Behind the play of its reserves, McClymonds - the defending Division I state champions - built an eight-point lead and held on for a 56-54 victory over the host Bulldogs.

"I sat my starting five because they aren't bigger than the team," said McClymonds first-year coach Brandon Brooks, describing his reaction to what he felt has been a lack of team discipline. "I made them and I'll break them."

After the second-ranked Warriors built a 54-46 fourth-quarter lead, Tech closed to 56-54 with 2:20 remaining on a deep three-pointer by Richard Boston (22 points, 4 of 7 three-pointers). The bench players remained in the game, though, and neither team scored the rest of the way.

McClymonds senior guard Will Cherry had a team-high 19 points, eight rebounds, six steals and five assists in three quarters.

Maceo Bell had four points in the final period and Barry Bell hit a key three-pointer down the stretch that put the Warriors (22-1, 7-0) up 56-49 with just under three minutes remaining.
 
So is this a good thing or a bad thing. Sounds like Cherry and others think their sh#t don't stink. Hopefully he won't bring that attitude to Missoula.
 
BDizzle said:
So is this a good thing or a bad thing. Sounds like Cherry and others think their sh#t don't stink. Hopefully he won't bring that attitude to Missoula.
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BDizzle, I do not know this coach, but do know this a very old school tactic. I learned this from one of HS coaches as well as Adam Morrison's dad, John, when he coached at Dawson Community College. The point is when the chemistry and/or attitude is not right or waying in the slightest within any rotation to make the point to that whole unit. If it is only one player, then you prove that point to that one player. I have seen coaches do this at HS and college level. It is risky, and a coach has to be selective when to do it.

I did it 2x's one time at the 8th grade AAU level boys ball. The other JV girls basketball. Not so much because the attitudes were bad or the play was extremely bad, but because we (the boys team) had been working constantly on execution of help defense and trapping responsibilities. Against my better judgement, I decided to try it in a game we had in hand. I wanted to get an idea where we were at against competition. Collectively, it just did not hit home to that unit. I pulled them all for a quarter. The other team made it's run. Fortunately we still won. God knows I heared it from certain parents. Yet was complemented by parents that wanted more PT for their kid.

After the game, I did not explain myself but told the team to think about the game over the next few days and next practice have them tell me why I did what I did? 2 days later we had our next practice, collectively they told me, "Coach, we were not doing things right even after all the practice so you pulled us." I responded with, "So what is the solution to this problem?" They knew all they had to do was learn and execute from now on. Not one time did we ever have that problem or any problem in executing anything collectively again.

To me, my players were not bad kids or bad attitudes, but that was the only option I had in hopes to make a statement. It worked! (both times)!!!! Was it a major thing in the grand scheme of life or basketball? No. However as a coach, it was major to me and I knew it was something that was holding the team back from improving. To this day, of the 11 players I had on that 8th grade team, 8 are playing varsity as sophomores with 5 different programs, 3 are still looking for the chance. Their coaches comment how mature they are for young kids. The parents tell their HS coaches they learned early in AAU ball.

From a standpoint of a basketball and coach, if anything that coach did their future college coaches a favor. I think nothing of it. I am sure Cherry is not only a quality player, but a quality person. Also, his coach is working with him in transitioning from SG to being a college ready PG. He sped up Cherry's transition time there. :D Not only will this action impact those 5, but will impact every class from now on. After all, did the article not say he is a 1st year coach? I doubt this coach will ever have to worry about this again at this program. Good job, Coach!
 
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