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The Hard Court Herald Volume 22, Issue 4 April, 2007 The Hard Court Herald Volume 22, Issue 4 April, 2007 What’s Inside Page 2 2006-2007 MBCA Board Info 3 The Little Things 6 Practice Drill of the Month 7 Q&A With the Difference-Makers: Jeff Sherman -Central Methodist University 11 2007 Spring Board Minutes 14 Show-Me State Games 15 Advertising Opportunities 16 Keeping a Good Thing Going 22 Coaches’ Clipboard 23 Summer Shoot -Outs 28 Mr. & Miss Show-Me Basketball 29 MBCA All-State Teams 34 MBCA Academic All-State Teams MBCA All-District Teams 37 Class 5 53 Class 4 69 Class 3 85 Class 2 101 Class 1 2006-2007 MBCA REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES & OFFICERS SOUTHEAST SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTHWEST B-Darrin Scott B-Ray Steinhoff B-Jay Osborne Jackson H.S. New Haven H.S. Nixa H.S. 573-243-9513 573-237-2629x107 417-724-3564 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] G-Kirk Chronister G-Craig Parrack G-Jeni Hopkins Poplar Bluff H.S. Climax Springs H.S. Hillcrest H.S. 573-785-5183 573-347-2352 or 2351 417-523-8000x34132 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] NORTHEAST CENTRAL NORTHWEST B-Darrell Davis B-Mike Arnold B-Tim Jermain Fulton H .S. Montrose H.S. Jefferson H.S. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] re.net 573-642-6806 660-693-4812 660-994-2316 G-Courtney Haskell G-Gail Jones G-Brett Goodwin Hickman H.S. Jefferson City H. S. St. Joseph Benton H.S. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 573-214-3000 573-659-3046 816-671-4030 ST. LOUIS KANSAS CITY B-Scott Harris B-Scott Jerma in Timberland H.S. Pleasant Hill H.S. 636-327-3988x512 816-540-3111 [email protected] G-Dawn Schuster G-Brad Oyler Francis Howell H.S. Liberty H.S. [email protected] [email protected] 636- 851-4700 816-736-6839 PRESIDENT: Jay Blossom-Webster Groves H.S. PRESIDENT-ELECT: Stephanie Phillips-Kickapoo H.S. VICE-PRESIDENT: Neal Hook-St. Joseph Central H.S. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY/TREASURER: Gary Filbert PAST PRESIDENT: Sean Williamson-Glendale H.S. COLLEGE: Bob Burchard-Columbia College. JUNIOR COLLEGE: Randy Albrecht-Meramec C.C. JUNIOR HIGH: HALL OF FAME GAME MANAGERS: Denny Hunt-Kickapoo H.S., Jacky Payne-Stoutland H.S., John Schaefer-Mountain Grove H.S., Ryan Shaw-Hillcrest H.S. CLINIC COORDINATOR: David Fox-Jefferson City H.S. MBCA ALL-STATE/ACADEMIC ALL-STATE COMMITTEE: Shawn Erickson-Festus H.S. & Jim Vaughan-Kennett H.S. WEB-MASTER: Bill Gunn-Kirkwood H.S. NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Shane Matzen-Marquette H.S. ASSOCIATE NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Jason Wolfard-Lindbergh H.S. 2 The Little Things by Jason Wolfard Hard Court Herald Associate Editor Lindbergh High School I was fortunate enough this past season to take my team to the Final Four in Columbia. Although the games didn’t end up the way we wanted to, the experience was amazing. I know there are coaches out there that haven’t been able to experience the Final Four and there are also retired coaches that never got there. I’ve been to many clinics over the years where they have a state championship panel of coaches. One thing that seems to always come up during this discussion is that they were blessed with great athletes. In our case this year, I didn’t have the star player or any D1 players. What I did have is a team that did the “little things” that helped us reach our goal. I thought I would take this opportunity to just share some of the things I learned with this team that I thought made the difference in us getting to Columbia. Here is what I learned this season (hopefully some of it will help some of you with your future teams): o “Think Big” – this was a slogan I started with my team when I first got the job three years ago. After I was named the head coach, the first meeting I had with all of the players at all levels involved me simply giving them a piece of paper. The paper had a picture of the Mizzou Arena floor in the middle and in big letters at the top it simply said, “Think Big”. I knew at the time that it was going to take a ton of work to get to that point and it wouldn’t happen that year and probably not even the next. But the group of seniors I had this year were still freshmen at the time. It started as how we looked at what we wanted to do. That was the point where we started to believe in the big picture. That has been the goal of my current seniors since the end of their freshman year. o Set goals early – At our banquet last year, the players and parents walked into the room and saw signs hanging around the room that had the number 32 on them. I got this idea from when I was a senior in high school. At our banquet at the end of our junior year, our coach told us that there were 33 games until the state championship. We started believing it along with all of our parents as well, and we were fortunate enough to get to the state championship and play 33 games. I decided to use that again, but didn’t realize how much it would coincide with other things. What did happen though at that moment is that the returning players and their parents started believing that we would play 32 games next year and get to the state tournament. It then worked out that our approach to each game is that we would use 32 minutes of pressure. Later in the season, we began to use a defense that really helped us and we called it our “32” defense. The one thing about setting this goal of playing 32 games is that no matter what troubles we went through during the season (and believe me there were several) we could always re-focus on our goal of 32. 3 Every game we would count down from 32 knowing that we wanted to get all the way down to one game remaining. Seems kind of silly at first, but now that I have used it twice and it has worked both times, I am a believer. o Belief Is Powerful – In late January into early February there was a stretch of games that we lost six of seven games. One of those games saw us surrender a good lead with very little time remaining and lose, while another game was one where we lost our chance to win our conference outright. After those two games, I was starting to question if we were simply crazy in thinking we could accomplish this goal. After talking to a couple of colleagues, I talked to our coaching staff and told them that we had to view it as a new challenge to get our kids to believe again that we could do this. There were several key factors, but the one that I think made the difference was when we won a very important road game on a last second shot after surrendering another big lead. From that point on, I could see it in my players’ eyes. They believed they could beat anyone no matter what the odds. They never panicked or doubted that we could achieve our goal. During the playoffs when you never know if that is your last practice or not, we never got that feeling. Everyone on our team simply knew that we would be back to keep on practicing. Of the four teams that were in Columbia, three of them had D1 players and great talent. We didn’t have a single D1 player or anyone who had been offered anything yet. The one thing we did have though that got us there was belief, and that made all the difference. o Find other ways to prepare – during our last four games, we were still in the running to win our first conference championship in 25 years. That was one of our small goals. Although I knew that was important to our guys, I wanted to also start getting them ready to focus on what it would take to get to Columbia. At the time we already knew our district seeding. It would take four wins to get to Columbia and achieve our goal, so I used our last four regular season games as a practice bracket. By winning our bracket we would achieve our goal of winning conference. To me though, by winning this practice bracket we gained the confidence that we needed to win four games and get to Columbia. When it came to district time, I took the same approach and drew a mini-bracket on the board every game just like we did at the end of the regular season. o Go ahead and call us lucky – Two thoughts come to mind when it comes to people calling us lucky. First off, luck often favors the winner. Secondly, my father always told me that luck is when preparation meets opportunity. We had heard it all season long… “You guys have the good path to Columbia”. We won our district championship game on a last second three-point bank shot. The team we beat in the quarterfinals upset the defending state champion the round before.
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