The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-07
isn't the whole bowl of rice this
year. There are some mighty
tasty raisins cooked with 1t,
right in the middle of the
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year. Inere are some mgnCy
tasty raisins cooked with 1t,
right in the middle Of the
schedule. -.
There's a thing about ruggedness
that counts too. In spite of all
efforts to make basketball more
scientific, more clever, less Of bod
lily contact, the game is going
tougher. I don't mean that coaches
or players are deliberately stress
ing as much roughness as can be
gotten away with. But I do feel
that the heat put on each game
promotes a certain amount of it.
Coaches note too that the game
gets rougher. The fans like It.
There's the human equation that
the refs are not electric eyes. The
hand being quicker, much gets
away. Coaches are more insis-
tent that refs watch carefully the
fouling. Otherwise a team gets used
to doing certain things in unorth-
odox manner, forgets certain things
are committed fouls, then runs
slap dab into it in tournament play
when officials are really tough. >. d.
And what's happened to the
substitute? You know the one
or two fellows, who were given
an old suit left over, allowed to
sit on the bench, and take in
the cOach's panning, enjoy the
plaudits Of their team mates
when going is good. But
they were just substitutes. They
rarely played basketball. They
simply took the place of another
man when such emergency
arose. They were substitutes,
something less than the real
thing more than often, and
were of no reserve benefit. Well,
in those days you didn't need
it. A good schedule was ten
or twelve games. Rarely the
season got underway until after
Christmas. Five or six good
men could carry the load. Now
it's reserve. -.
Nowadays it's consensus among
coaches that ten good men, and we
mean good, are necessary accoutre-
ments to every squad. Five of them
may sit on the bench more than
the others. But they have to
be more than substitutes.
They've got to be able to play. All
Of which, you can see, puts more
work on coaches and players alike.
Today they're playing 16, IS, even
20 game schedules, running the
gamut from early December to
mid-March. What happens to a
team in that length of time is Of
ten unpredictable.
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A team has to be a lot bet
ter today. Each individual play
er must be tops; as unit
they must be a real ball team.
.. And here's an angle, we've
watched over the last few years.
.. A high school team that
can't find 80 good points some
place is going to get beat more
than a little. That's the
way the revolution is going. -.
The coaches and players who
can more readily adjust them
selves to long schedules, more
gruelling game play, high scOr-
ing, fast moving events to de-
light the fans will go places. -.
Were going to learn to pass,
Schwartz told the boys on the way
home from st. Cloud after those
Tigers had got hotter than a new
born batch of kittens. He said
a week ago that the early success
of this team depends on just how
fast they pick up fundamentals.
Passing is one of these important
features. Reminds me-" chirp-
ed one in the back of the bus, Tets
pass this car ahead" ;.
So Rays going to give them the
works on passing this week and
a few other pet ideas he picked
up while he watched that opening
of the schedule. -.
You're going to see a different
type of basketball this year than
you were accustomed to over the
past two years. Reason Is height
or rather the lack of 1t. :. .
There's no lank Pangburns, Krin.
gems, Conkeys to build plays around
this year. Tallest of the men is
Stan Nelson, the lad from Monte
video. Hildebrand and Jackson are
fair-sized men. Arneson will stack
up about average. But Sieben,
Cooper, Botz are undersize when