CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY
Hall of Famer
I was thrilled and gratified I was able to act as a guest assistant coach yesterday.
Late in the game Hewitt was early into his Moore/Holloway offense and defense combo. Holloway had just come out of the game, Mason promptly fouled Bonnie, who went to the line.
Patrick sat on the end of his chair, expecting to check back in on offense. Unfortunately Mr. Hewitt had his head buried in his hands, and wasn't paying attention. So, after no assistant mentioned anything, I yelled "Pat needs to go in." Hewitt heard me, and checked him in immediately.
I didn't say anything when Copes got his fourth foul, figuring somebody on that bench would have the duty to remind Hewitt that was his fourth. Sometimes as a head coach you are thinking of other things, so usually you have one of the junior coaches on the bench remind you when somebody gets their second in the first half, or gets into foul trouble later. Maybe Hewitt knew, maybe he didn't. Anyway, nobody said anything.
These are basic duties high school JV coaches should be performing. It would be one thing if they were busy coaching up our players, but I rarely see them doing so. Skeeters amazingly might rank on the high end of the scale, with just a couple of vocal "let's go" type yells during games.
I doubt we'll let go of Hewitt after year 3, which I understand based on the contract. But I see little to no value with the assistant coaches at all. Glad Krieder has a winning smile. Glad Houston played college basketball in the 80's but can't even coach his relative. They all need to be gone.
Late in the game Hewitt was early into his Moore/Holloway offense and defense combo. Holloway had just come out of the game, Mason promptly fouled Bonnie, who went to the line.
Patrick sat on the end of his chair, expecting to check back in on offense. Unfortunately Mr. Hewitt had his head buried in his hands, and wasn't paying attention. So, after no assistant mentioned anything, I yelled "Pat needs to go in." Hewitt heard me, and checked him in immediately.
I didn't say anything when Copes got his fourth foul, figuring somebody on that bench would have the duty to remind Hewitt that was his fourth. Sometimes as a head coach you are thinking of other things, so usually you have one of the junior coaches on the bench remind you when somebody gets their second in the first half, or gets into foul trouble later. Maybe Hewitt knew, maybe he didn't. Anyway, nobody said anything.
These are basic duties high school JV coaches should be performing. It would be one thing if they were busy coaching up our players, but I rarely see them doing so. Skeeters amazingly might rank on the high end of the scale, with just a couple of vocal "let's go" type yells during games.
I doubt we'll let go of Hewitt after year 3, which I understand based on the contract. But I see little to no value with the assistant coaches at all. Glad Krieder has a winning smile. Glad Houston played college basketball in the 80's but can't even coach his relative. They all need to be gone.
