As the regular season approaches the ENC men’s basketball team has its sights on getting better each and every practice. Players have been coming to practice with an upbeat, business like, attitude for the practice that lies ahead.
With two scrimmages in the books, the last an encouraging one at Husson College, practices have incrementally come to be game like, in both agenda, intensity, and mentality.
They’re still a ways away from contending for a conference title. Four conference wins, in 2009-2010, and many of the same players serving similar roles, typically, doesn’t get you into the conference championship conversation, but maybe this is the way they want it to be.
Maybe they want to play the “no one respects us” card. Bring a high compete level and have the fortitude to win a few games that no one believed you could win. All of a sudden you put yourself in a scenario where you’ve envisioned yourself in, a place where everyone else considered laughable.
This philosophy has worked for many teams in the past, at all levels of competitive sports. The New England Patriots are the king sitting in the “no one believed in us” throne. Even when they were well on their way to winning three of four Super Bowls and everyone picked them, believed in them, and respected them, they still came out and bellowed out, to anyone who would listen, that “we believed, when no one else did.”
This could, very well, work for this particular group. The potential on this team is endless, the talent is visible and present. Whether it be in a game, practice, or pick up, the skill set of certain players is eye popping.
Can these players coexist, will they put aside personal accolades for the well being of the team? Basketball has turned into an egotistical, twitter era, self promotion, self absorbed sport, where “as long as I get mine” rules the court. But, championship basketball relies on the team concept. One on one basketball can win ball games, can even take you to the post season, but win the big one, I don’t think so.
ENC men’s basketball has had its fair share of selfishness that prohibited even the most talented teams to win. From the, unwarranted, constant feeding of Luc Jasmin, when there was a talented facilitator in JP Marcellus on the roster, to the “well my right hand baseline dribble in so dominant (in my mind) that I won’t acknowledge the open man”, Deandre Brown era.
This particular team seems and feels different. They seem to be putting self aside, and Coach Aller seems adamant to weeding out selfishness. There isn’t one player on the roster who will consistently take over a game, whether it be because of skill or stature. Due to the lack of a go to guy, for now, each player has his own role, some bigger than others, but when each of them take their roles to heart, they compete at a high level.
Ultimately, this is all fans, faculty and staff are looking for, a high compete level. Add brains to the equation and these ENC Lions will have an opportunity to turn some heads in 2010-2011.
With two scrimmages in the books, the last an encouraging one at Husson College, practices have incrementally come to be game like, in both agenda, intensity, and mentality.
They’re still a ways away from contending for a conference title. Four conference wins, in 2009-2010, and many of the same players serving similar roles, typically, doesn’t get you into the conference championship conversation, but maybe this is the way they want it to be.
Maybe they want to play the “no one respects us” card. Bring a high compete level and have the fortitude to win a few games that no one believed you could win. All of a sudden you put yourself in a scenario where you’ve envisioned yourself in, a place where everyone else considered laughable.
This philosophy has worked for many teams in the past, at all levels of competitive sports. The New England Patriots are the king sitting in the “no one believed in us” throne. Even when they were well on their way to winning three of four Super Bowls and everyone picked them, believed in them, and respected them, they still came out and bellowed out, to anyone who would listen, that “we believed, when no one else did.”
This could, very well, work for this particular group. The potential on this team is endless, the talent is visible and present. Whether it be in a game, practice, or pick up, the skill set of certain players is eye popping.
Can these players coexist, will they put aside personal accolades for the well being of the team? Basketball has turned into an egotistical, twitter era, self promotion, self absorbed sport, where “as long as I get mine” rules the court. But, championship basketball relies on the team concept. One on one basketball can win ball games, can even take you to the post season, but win the big one, I don’t think so.
ENC men’s basketball has had its fair share of selfishness that prohibited even the most talented teams to win. From the, unwarranted, constant feeding of Luc Jasmin, when there was a talented facilitator in JP Marcellus on the roster, to the “well my right hand baseline dribble in so dominant (in my mind) that I won’t acknowledge the open man”, Deandre Brown era.
This particular team seems and feels different. They seem to be putting self aside, and Coach Aller seems adamant to weeding out selfishness. There isn’t one player on the roster who will consistently take over a game, whether it be because of skill or stature. Due to the lack of a go to guy, for now, each player has his own role, some bigger than others, but when each of them take their roles to heart, they compete at a high level.
Ultimately, this is all fans, faculty and staff are looking for, a high compete level. Add brains to the equation and these ENC Lions will have an opportunity to turn some heads in 2010-2011.
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