Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Hey Adrien!, post: 2914337, member: 5787"] Yes, Vital's mental mistakes can be frustrating, but with our lack of frontcourt depth, his rebounding, energy, defense and tenacity is so valuable. You can't teach what he has. However, you [I]can[/I] teach better decision making on offense. His first two years on this team was perhaps the worst climate for young players to learn how to play team basketball properly. Hurley's coaching will help correct his mistakes while still celebrating what he does so well innately. Remember that corner 3 on Sunday when there were three passes to the corner and the ball never touched the ground? That's something that never happened with KO and Vital will learn from smart plays like this. Also, the new guard depth of Smith and a healthy Gilbert provides exemplars of how to correctly blend assertiveness without sacrificing the possession. Gilbert and Smith are tonics, they play it safe and limit mistakes and they can handle more of the distributing and ball handling duties while Vital is on the floor. When does Vital fail? When he overdribbles. No need to do your best Kyrie impression when you have four other really good guards on this team, plus a developing handle from Polley and whatever Sid can bring to the table. Bottom line, be patient with a kid as passionate as Vital. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't put it all together this year, and he continues to give us headaches, but he has a chance to be a really good two-way alpha guard. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach