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Post by kiyoat on May 16, 2018 7:29:57 GMT -6
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Post by kiyoat on May 29, 2018 10:34:27 GMT -6
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Post by kiyoat on Jun 21, 2018 7:53:36 GMT -6
kwsn.com/podcasts/sports-talk-with-kwsn/5093/mick-garry-on-phil-mickelsons-embarrassment-coyote-mens-hoops-changes/Yesterday's interview with Mick Garry. He talked about Coyote hoops a bit: (after the 14:30 mark) Craig: You talked to him (Cody Kelley) recently, Mick. What did you learn from him?Mick: An impressive kid. When you look at what he's done to get to this point, [...] Walk-on at Wyoming, [...] he worked his way onto starting in his third year, graduated in three years, ... He just seems like a tough, disciplined kid. He's not going to replace Matt Mooney by any stretch, ... he's not a scorer, but a tough guy who will be very good at running the offense. I think he's going to be a real asset to the team. He's a two year. John: How big of an asset? This isn't Matt Mooney's replacement. Nobody should get that idea, or should they?Mick: No. His role with Wyoming was never approximating what Matt was called on to do for the Coyotes. He'll score a little bit more here, but I think he's a point guard, and his job is going to be to make sure that the offense is running the way it should. I think they'll move Tristan Simpson over to the two-guard area... not all the time, but part of the time. And those two guys will be on the court at the same time. From what I can tell, he's an extremely hard-working kid. Stocky. Very strong, physically strong kid. I suppose there will be times when it will appear that he's over-matched on defense... when he's gotta cover a 6-3 guy... but... I would think that the fact that he was able to get 23 minutes a game at Wyoming would be enough of an endorsement. He'll probably get 25 at USD (just guessing). Todd Lee sounded pretty optimistic that Coyote fans would like watching this kid play.
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Post by kiyoat on Jun 21, 2018 8:47:56 GMT -6
(after a section talking about Streveler)
John: I want to get back to men's basketball. They recently added a grad transfer named Jay Harvey. [...] He has a year left. Started 30 games at Florida International. 16 minutes per game. So not heavy contributions. [...] I wonder how many kids guys like Todd Lee look at, as graduate transfers, ... and what goes into him deciding 'this is who we want'? What do you think is the case here? A guy that doesn't have big stats, but I don't think you go and grad transfer from Florida (a pretty cool place to go to college) to Vermillion, SD unless you had the impression that you were going to be a significant contributor.
Mick: Number one: I watched him practice Tuesday morning, and ... Jay Harvey is a large human being. I mean, he's 6'-9", but probably 6-9 and 250. He's an unusual story in that he started very late with basketball. I think he just played his senior year of high school. He then went to a ju-co, ...then Florida International, ...got his degree...
He'll be a role-player. He's never been a scorer, but very strong re-bounder, and I think, a strong defender. And ... definitely a guy that gets time in games. Mostly because of defense and rebounding.
John: Is your feeling that they are going to be good enough to contend for a 2, 3, or 4-spot in the Summit League Tournament? Has that changed at all?
Mick: I think that's kind-of what we are looking at here. I was looking at the roster, and I thought... (I'm gonna have a story on Todd Lee and his adjustment to the players at the end of the week)
John: good.
Mick: But, ...four out of the five guys that he brought in here (this year) are tall... I always thought, and maybe I'm wrong,.. but.. It was almost like anybody over 6-8, or 6-7 for Craig (Smith) was like: 'Well, I know we've gotta use these guys'. It was almost against his will that you put any big guys in there. He'd much rather play with 6-6 and below, if he could. Maybe that's unfair, but it sure seemed like it sometimes. I don't know that there's any criticism of that. I don't know enough about it to be critical of the sport. I thought it was curious that, If you're really trying to find some differences: I can't imagine that Craig, in that situation, would have had that many tall kids coming in at once. And I don't know if that means anything, but...
It was interesting, talking with Todd last week. I had a long conversation with him. He didn't really talk like it was a liability that he didn't get any of the recruits that Craig had signed. None of them ended up coming here. I would think that if you take a job in April, and you're left short like that, that it's a real tough deal. He didn't look at it like that, I think. Honestly, he looked at it like... maybe this is a liberating deal. All of a sudden this was an opportunity for him to go get his own guys.
John: We hope that's the case, and that it works. It will be interesting, cause the Yotes will have a lot of the same kind of talent that's been part of two great teams, ... but just not the head coach, and not the best player anymore. And some new faces. [...] Thank's for your time, Mick, and looking forward to that story!
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Post by kiyoat on Jun 21, 2018 11:22:02 GMT -6
www.yankton.net/sports/article_ccccad8c-7504-11e8-a8dd-af3ef55321b2.htmlAnd a Jeremy Hoeck article in the P&D Nothing too different from what we have heard elsewhere. I liked these two lines: I think you can somewhat throw out the stats on our two transfer players, because they will be asked to do some different things here. Cody will never be a huge rebounding threat, but I think his Assist-Turnover rate is good, and I think his shot attempts will go up. I believe that with Lee's history of coaching defense he will really get the most out of Jay as well.
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Post by elcoyote on Jun 21, 2018 14:40:44 GMT -6
All good stuff. Thanks for taking the time for this.
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Post by kiyoat on Jun 25, 2018 9:51:52 GMT -6
Links to the new Mick Garry Argus Leader article about Lee...
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Post by kiyoat on Jun 25, 2018 13:46:13 GMT -6
from the article:
On losing Smith's recruits: ...“To be honest with you, I think it would have been tougher if I walked in here and didn’t have any scholarships to give out,” Lee said. “That was about what it was looking like. If you go through the spring workouts and you realize you don’t have X, Y or Z, you’re pretty locked in. From that standpoint, I viewed it as a blessing. We’ve added some guys who are going to fill needs next year and players who could help us next year but are going to be very good players in the future.”...
On the current players: ...“They could do some things better, like every group, but they’re good kids. They’re competitive. I can see that. I’ve watched a lot of tape. They know how to practice. There’s a bounce from drill to drill. They’re on time – it’s a good group that way. It’s the same stuff every coach wants....These guys are used to winning. That’s a big deal.”
On his decision to go into coaching: ...he was managing five “Merle Harmon’s Fan Fair” stores in California. And hating every minute of it. ... “I called my parents and said I was going to quit my job,” Lee said. “I was going to go back to school and get my teaching credentials for my masters because I wanted to coach. You can imagine the conversation with my dad.... It was ‘Todd, how are you going to make any money?’ And I said ‘Well, I don’t know.’”
On what molded his coaching philosophy: ...What he didn’t know he learned quickly. Without the resume, that was how it was going to have to go. Every day was another opportunity to prove he knew the game...
...His time with the Rapid City Thrillers of the CBA under Eric Musselman included a lot of situations where he was being asked to coach players older than he was and much more familiar with the pro game.
“It was good for me,” Lee said. “Muss always wanted the veteran players – these were guys who had played five, six or seven years off and on in the NBA. They’d been around a lot of NBA coaches. I learned very quickly that they would listen to you for about 20 seconds and if they didn’t think you knew what you were talking about, they’d tune you out and you couldn’t tune them back in. They were done with you.”
Preparedness became a distinguishing trait, ... devising and implementing a game plan for the next opponent – became a specialty.
On offense: “For Coach Smith, it was a motion offense – move the way you want to – and a lot of sets,” said Tyler Peterson, a junior next year. “With Coach Lee so far it’s been a lot of reading the defense. Take what they’re giving us. It’s a new system for all of our guys to learn but I think it’s definitely going to benefit us this year.”
On future changes: “From the administrative side, there are things we can do to improve the program, and I’ve already talked to people about it,” Lee said. “Hopefully a little down the road, we’ll be able to make these things happen. But the big things are in place here to help you win. The facilities are unbelievable. We have cost of attendance, the alumni support, the media attention, the conference tournament in Sioux Falls – these are big things.”
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Post by kiyoat on Jun 25, 2018 13:59:40 GMT -6
Interesting stuff. I like the background story on coach Lee. You get a better picture of a coach that has learned to be successful the 'hard way'. Coaching basketball because he hated NOT doing it. Building a reputation 'from scratch', not because he was born into it, or had contacts. Learning that preparedness was the ultimate defense against failure. Great article.
I wonder what he means with 'administrative' ways to improve the program? It makes me think of how the school president at CGU was the driving force behind the growth and success of the student section?
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Post by kiyoat on Jun 28, 2018 11:25:39 GMT -6
kwsn.com/podcasts/sports-talk-with-kwsn/5093/mick-garry-on-vikings-hunter-signing-streveler-success-augie-to-div-i-prospect/Mick Garry on KWSN again yesterday. Talks about the USD Football schedule, Streveler, Augie to D-1, and this about the new MBB coach (10:05 mark): John: USD Mens hoops gets another assistant coach; he follows Lee from GCU. For the average fan, it's just kind-of: "OK". Hard to do your homework (on this guy). Anything you translate from that? Not just this guy, but what he's done with his staff that appears complete now?Mick: Well, when they retained Coach G, ... I think that was an appreciation for the fact that they had been doing some good things up to this point. And having a link between the previous regime was something they wanted to do. I also think that when Casey Kasperbauer got the Operations job, that meant the same thing. He sees the value in some bond between what's going on now and in the past.
I think other than that, these other guys are pretty hooked in with the national scene. He didn't bring in Dellariva because he's got Beresford (SD) basketball covered. This is a guy that's worked at IMG (Acadamy, FL), and has been at a couple different places in the midwest. Obviously somebody that's tried to work his way up in the business, but has covered a lot of geography in his short career. You could say that maybe that's a priority. They want to make sure that they've got familiarity in a lot of different areas in recruiting.
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Post by kiyoat on Aug 1, 2018 14:57:58 GMT -6
I liked this tweet with the quote from Simpson. Hearing that from players that have already had success with another staff tells me Coach Lee is good at getting that buy-in and loyalty from his players. I don't know how they will do in his first year, but I love the culture he is building already.
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Post by gasser86 on Oct 8, 2018 16:42:15 GMT -6
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Post by yotebewithyou on Oct 12, 2018 13:37:32 GMT -6
New jerseys... not a fan of these
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Post by coyotecrazie5 on Oct 12, 2018 14:11:26 GMT -6
I don't mind them, I like the different style font on the lettering and numbers. These greys are 100x better than the dark grey they have worn where you can't even read the number.
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Post by gopheryote on Oct 19, 2018 16:55:48 GMT -6
I'm not a doctor, but it is pretty clear the new jersey's caused Hag's injury.
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