Coach G

Coach at Premier Prep Tucson / Az Select UAA asst. coach / Tucson Spartans

[Coach G @GerronGraham]

@KingJosiah54 Had no idea how spoiled I was as a child

[Orlando Magic @OrlandoMagic]

send this to someone who needs to see how good Penny Hardaway was

[Mississippi Mud Monsters @mudmonstersbsb]

JUST DOING WHAT HE DOES 🔥

CHRIS BARRAZA
STRIKES OUT THE SIDE IN HIS FIRST ALL-STAR GAME

[GJ Graham @gj_graham1]

Film from this weekend’s P32 Juco Showcase! @JC4PT

[GJ Graham @gj_graham1]

Player of the Game‼️P32 Juco Showcase

[sai @masaidean2]

Masai Dean 6’1 170
Juco Transfer Guard 3 years elgibility
520-900-3948
Check out my freshman year film @JucoRecruiting

[Coach G @GerronGraham]

Love it when good things happen to good people.

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

NC State is expected to hire Tennessee assistant Justin Gainey as the program’s next head basketball coach, per multiple reports.

Gainey spent the last five seasons working with the Volunteers and played for the Wolfpack from 1996 to 2000.

[Coach G @GerronGraham]

@ProducerDanny Locked in

[Coach G @GerronGraham]

@ProducerDanny 🤣🤣🤣 for real

[GJ Graham @gj_graham1]

Recent Game Film!

[GJ Graham @gj_graham1]

Recent Game Film!

[Coach G @GerronGraham]

@RomansEmpire21 Yeah man they were gettin to it

[Coach G @GerronGraham]

Triple-double for the kid. Added 3 blocks and 3 steals too. My guy was having fun

[PimaAthletics @PimaAthletics]

Recap as (4) @PimaMens_bball wins its 24th straight game after downing Community Christian.

Will Feagles 35pts (10-13 3PT), 5reb, 3asts
Gerron Graham 12pts, 10reb, 20asts
Isaac Johnson/Mason Hunt/Brock Mendoza 17pts each (20-28 FGs combined - 71%)

https://t.co/5s1FBUv0ZP

[Arizona Daily Star @TucsonStar]

Razin Smith and Zena Smith are the faces of The Gregory School basketball programs — and "they're even better human beings." https://t.co/qcIMiqO8Kv

[PimaAthletics @PimaAthletics]

(5) Aztecs @PimaMens_bball rally and beat South Mountain CC to stay undefeated. The Aztecs improve to 21-0 overall and 10-0 in ACCAC conference play. #PimaBasketball #AztecTOUGH

[Coach G @GerronGraham]

@dshivers5 @therealbeadle @c2chaney11 @AZHSFB Talent was there for sure, just no direction. And trust me, I hear you. Only speaking on this situation down here. It definitely seems to be a bigger issue in the Phoenix area. Also, I have zero faith in the AIA making competent decisions.

[Coach G @GerronGraham]

@dshivers5 @therealbeadle @c2chaney11 @AZHSFB I don’t think that’s the situation here. I watched 5 Salpointe games this year and it was bad. They have guys leaving who aren’t going to powerhouse football schools too.

[Coach G @GerronGraham]

Sounds a lot like what happened to baseball and what’s happening to basketball here in the states

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

Thoughts on Team Canada at World Juniors:

There's been a lot of discourse today about Canada's performance after bowing out to Czechia again. I've read a lot about roster construction, team toughness, how players were used during the tournament, and other things related to the team's inability to get the job done.

These things may have been an issue, but reality is the problem runs way deeper.

Here is the biggest thing that people aren't talking about:

Canada has WAY fewer youth boys playing hockey than it did a decade ago.

Looking at Hockey Canada registration and membership data, it's mind-boggling to see the numbers.

And the numbers in the biggest provinces (Ontario and Quebec) are especially egregious.

So why is this happening? Hockey is Canada's sport. It shouldn't be like this.

It's what we hear every day from families all over North America:

Costs are too high. It's professionalized at too young of an age. The stress of the youth hockey experience is too much for kids and families.

Community programs have been replaced by for-profit entities leading to higher costs and more pressure. Development has been replaced by super teams and rogue/outlaw leagues outside of Hockey Canada even before kids are 8 years old. At the older ages, hockey academies have become what families believe is the only way their kids will make it - shelling out INSANE amounts of money to send their kids to do so.

Ontario just got rid of residency rules which will only lead to less accountability and more club-hopping than there already was in the nation's craziest and biggest youth hockey market.

The reason why Canada was the hockey superpower for so long is because it was part of the fabric of the country. There was such a pride and passion for the game and what the game meant to the flag. There was such a sense of playing the game for something bigger than yourself.

Now rather than playing for the love of the game, hockey in Canada is like a job for many of these kids in the environment they're being put in. It's less about pride and passion and more about the path to making it. When in all honesty, it's the pride and passion for the game that is the biggest consistency in the kids that do end up making it.

If Canada wants to restore its hockey dominance, it better take a long look in the mirror at the grassroots and what is going on in youth hockey. If you have tens of thousands of fewer boys playing the game, you should probably look at that first. The bigger your pool of athletes, the more elite athletes you can develop.

"As many as possible, for as long as possible, in the best environment possible". That has to be the guiding principle.

There's a lot of great people in Canada doing incredible things for the game, but the system itself is fundamentally broken. If Hockey Canada is serious about getting back to the top, it has to start at the bottom.

[Tucson Sentinel @TucsonSentinel]

Mason Hunt nets 29 as Pima men's basketball hangs on to beat Scottsdale https://t.co/etBdahtwWP

[Arizona Basketball @ArizonaMBB]

First career double-double for the big guy 💪