Luke Kennard finishes the season at 49.4% from three. That’s the highest single-season three-point percentage in NBA history for a player with four-plus three-point attempts per game.
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Steve Kerr's comments about AAU Basketball.
“Even if today’s players are incredibly gifted, they grow up in a basketball environment that can only be called counterproductive. AAU basketball has replaced high school ball as the dominant form of development in the teen years. I coached my son’s AAU team for three years; it’s a genuinely weird subculture. Like everywhere else, you have good coaches and bad coaches, or strong programs and weak ones, but what troubled me was how much winning is devalued in the AAU structure. Teams play game after game after game, sometimes winning or losing four times in one day. Very rarely do teams ever hold a practice. Some programs fly in top players from out of state for a single weekend to join their team. Certain players play for one team in the morning and another one in the afternoon. If mom and dad aren’t happy with their son’s playing time, they switch club teams and stick him on a different one the following week. The process of growing as a team basketball player — learning how to become part of a whole, how to fit into something bigger than oneself — becomes completely lost within the AAU fabric.”
Not playing?
1. What kind of energy are you bringing to your team?
2. Are you staying engaged and invested in the game?
This is how you can still positively impact your team, even though you may not be on the floor.
@JosephRayaWard Bottom line….Just play @LukeKennard5 with anyone, and play him a lot!!! This team is instantly better when he is on the floor! Hard to argue math. Lol.
“Nothing is really fun unless it’s hard. We’ve got to embrace that things are going to be hard. We’ve got to be excited when things are hard. Embrace the fact that it’s hard. Never hope that it’s easy.” ~ Mike Leach
Every HS player needs to learn this now! Go into your defender to keep your line. If there room between you and him, he has a straight line to cut you off before the basket. “No space, to create space!”
“Cool doesn’t win. You have to be willing to do the uncomfortable things that go into winning. We will not win until we're humble enough to do the things it takes to win games. Winners know why they win. They know tangibles win games. Losers don't know why they lose”-Mick Cronin