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I was going to post this as a reply in Husky Dad's thread but decided it deserved a thread of its own.
College basketball is fun to root for because:
- You get to watch players develop before your eyes. They come in as freshman having never played at this level, get exposed, but they work and they improve, and with the talented ones, you see the improvement game to game and week to week. It is exciting to tune into each game and see how each player progresses.
- You get to watch the team develop its chemistry. The roster changes every year and every year the team has to develop its own chemistry. Chemistry the prior year is no guarantee of good chemistry the next. They start out November as disorganized mis-cooperating players and wind up in March a finely tuned cooperating machine (2011, 2014) or a still disorganized group (2012). It's exciting to watch that progression.
- You get to watch the coaches adjust and develop their strategy. Sometimes the team's strengths and weaknesses are different than what they expected. Sometimes they spend months searching: what is the team's best way to score? The team's best pace? The team's best defensive strategy?
Every game is a new experience, and you are rewarded with progress every game.
This is one of those fun, fun teams. Enough talent to go far in March. A strong desire on the part of the players to be great - you see that already in how they play defense. Rapidly improving players - see Brimah, Facey, D Hamilton.
Everything is a work in progress, and the injuries have set the outcomes back - with Purvis and Boatright healthy throughout we are undefeated - but the team is going to improve steadily and God willing, will be injury free and a threat to win it all in March.
We are blessed to have these players and this coaching staff.
Enjoy the season! I have never felt more optimistic, as a fan, about the pleasures of game-watching than I do this year. I know I'm going to see steady improvement and that in four months this team will be a well-oiled machine. Watching how that comes about will be an unending pleasure. Enjoy it!
College basketball is fun to root for because:
- You get to watch players develop before your eyes. They come in as freshman having never played at this level, get exposed, but they work and they improve, and with the talented ones, you see the improvement game to game and week to week. It is exciting to tune into each game and see how each player progresses.
- You get to watch the team develop its chemistry. The roster changes every year and every year the team has to develop its own chemistry. Chemistry the prior year is no guarantee of good chemistry the next. They start out November as disorganized mis-cooperating players and wind up in March a finely tuned cooperating machine (2011, 2014) or a still disorganized group (2012). It's exciting to watch that progression.
- You get to watch the coaches adjust and develop their strategy. Sometimes the team's strengths and weaknesses are different than what they expected. Sometimes they spend months searching: what is the team's best way to score? The team's best pace? The team's best defensive strategy?
Every game is a new experience, and you are rewarded with progress every game.
This is one of those fun, fun teams. Enough talent to go far in March. A strong desire on the part of the players to be great - you see that already in how they play defense. Rapidly improving players - see Brimah, Facey, D Hamilton.
Everything is a work in progress, and the injuries have set the outcomes back - with Purvis and Boatright healthy throughout we are undefeated - but the team is going to improve steadily and God willing, will be injury free and a threat to win it all in March.
We are blessed to have these players and this coaching staff.
Enjoy the season! I have never felt more optimistic, as a fan, about the pleasures of game-watching than I do this year. I know I'm going to see steady improvement and that in four months this team will be a well-oiled machine. Watching how that comes about will be an unending pleasure. Enjoy it!
