We again had the team broken into three groups of four - the bigs, the wings and the guards. Patrick, Perry, Ramon and Darius were in Group 1; John Wall, Jon Hood, DeAndre and Eric were in Group 2; Darnell, Josh, Daniel and DeMarcus were in group 3.
(Darnell's hip was feeling better and he was able to go at full speed on Monday.)
We added some new ball handling drills and also some shooting drills to augment what we had done in our first two days of individual workouts. There were shooting drills and also a drill we run with movement patterns which is meant to further teach the Dribble Drive Motion Offense.
To be honest, I have no idea if they're grasping the dribble drive at this point! But I do know the more they do the drills, the more they learn to attack the basket and that is so vital in our offense. They're not ready to read or feel the offense yet, but that's perfectly normal at this stage.
The guy that stood out in my mind was DeMarcus, who was an absolute beast and really pushed himself like I had not seen him do before.
I thought much the same of Eric, whom I hadn't seen work that hard for that long.
Now, my job as their coach is to get those two to enjoy that feeling and seek it each and every time they are on the court.
Patrick continues to make strides playing as a more perimeter-oriented player and his hard work in the summer is showing each time I see him.
We'll have one more day of individuals where we group the players this way and that session will build upon the first three days of work we did. We will then begin to group the players differently with two bigs and two guards in each group."
Great stuff from Coach Cal. GO BIG BLUE!
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