Recent content by kckempf

Barnes is asking big things from Ament and benching him when he can't deliver (first half against A&M). He's asking little things from other players and benching them when they can't deliver. Sure it's frustrating when Barnes benches you for letting your defender blow by you, but that's...

The real key to the game, and especially key for anyone facing Kentucky, is that we failed to close out well on their 3 point shooters, and the times that we did we were in poor position for the rebound. That's why they rebounded nearly half their own shots. Combined with the defensive issues on...

I feel like he knew that if he didn't say yes this time there wouldn't be another time. If he ever wanted to be a major league manager that was the chance.

JP's defensive rebounding is okay. He's behind Ament in defensive rebounding rate, for instance. His offensive rebounding has been elite. The biggest reason JP isn't getting much playing time is that he's not been a good defender. Maybe he could argue that Gillespie and Carey should be...

It used to be that Vandy's athletics took a back door so that the academic accomplishments could bolster the reputation of the wealthy folks who paid for their degrees. These days the wealthy don't care much about being seen as brilliant, so they'll spend their money on bragging rights.

I do like that we have folks complaining about us losing to Kentucky because "they're bad" and thinking that throwing money at the problem is going to fix it. If "just spend more money" was the solution to basketball struggles, Kentucky wouldn't have any losses. The second half of this game...

It would be good to know if he went to South Alabama because they were the only ones who wanted to let him play TE.

That really bugged me. Every time they made a basket they interfered with the ball getting back to the ref. We used to get a warning and a tech for that in middle school.

They managed to win at Bama. Maybe that win earlier in the week was not so bad.

Probably a number of ways to hack some communication systems used by teams, but doing so without getting caught is a good bit harder.

He got 2 fouls early, then got his 4th with a lot of time remaining, too.

Not a bad way to stay fit. Definitely was impressed when the teacher told us to do pushups for our frame, then dropped into one-handed fingertip pushups to demonstrate. I wouldn't mess with Pasha Pashkov.

There's something to that, though I have perspective these days from a strange source: ballroom dance. Our instructors emphasized the differences between the technique training, which we would do slowly to perfection, in order to get the figures right and know how it feels, and rounds, when we...

If you want to simulate game conditions, make them sprint the length of the court and get whacked on the arm before shooting practice free throws.

It was about the money before, but it was sweetheart deals with car dealerships and petty cash in McDonald's bags. Teams these days are above a car dealer's budget.