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Message: [QUOTE="microfich, post: 3329265, member: 1029"] Successful teams have point guards with good leadership skills. More successful teams also have senior leaders as key contributors. Yes, these are skills than can be acquired as kids mature. Some get them early in life, the ‘born leaders’, others grow into them while the majority of us never become leaders. That’s ok, we can’t all be leaders like we all can’t hit 20 foot jumpers even with a chair guarding us. Last season we wrung our hands over the need for Jalen Adams to mature into a leader. Never happened to our detriment but that’s who he was and that’s just life and we still dearly miss his nightly contributions. This season we have no players who have demonstrated leadership as it translates into running a team. We neither have an upper classman that can lead elsewhere. Christian Vital comes the closest and he can wildly impact the chemistry with his 3 bombs and great defensive strikes but it dissolves when he adds ball handling and decision making miscues to the mix. Coaches work to get extensions of themselves on the floor. Alterique is clearly the focus here. What’s missing? He has the skills and strut but not yet the bonded blind love of the team mass. Somehow, as opposed to Jalen, it does seem there for him, lurking in the shadows of injuries and games lost passed. It is up to the coaching staff and Hurley in particular to develop this exceptional kid into what he can become. [/QUOTE]