Just to follow up my last post, I wasn’t trying to bash officials. Blame for the sloppy/trashy endings to basketball games lies just as much with the coaches as with officials. I do think officials bear 100% of the responsibility for the ‘swallow the whistle’ mindset, but I think that coaches share in the responsibility for the sloppiness (and sometimes trashiness) at the end of games. I have seen teams continue to foul, the last few seconds of a double digit loss……that’s on us (coaches). I’ve seen teams simply push or hack, with no attempt at a legal play, then …

Video, or as we called it in the old days…..film. I have always been a big believer in watching film with my teams. Early on in my career, I met a guy that had gone to high school in Dimmitt and played for the great Kenneth Cleveland. I asked him how much film they watched……his reply was an emphatic ‘lots!’ I had never met Coach Cleveland, but knew of Dimmitt and their great teams of the 70’s and early 80’s. I wish that I’d had the opportunity to meet Coach Cleveland…..he was obviously a great coach, and by all accounts …