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STUFF
By DICK DEVENZIO
When Johnny Goes
Shooting On....
My father was a colorful, outstanding high school coach for
30-plus years (he retired with 551 career victories), and he used
to make a comment during games that few people understood.
When a player on the other team would take a bad shot, my
father would blurt out instinctively, without a thought, “GO
IN.”
He didn’t want HIS players to confuse luck with success, but
he always thought it was good if the other team did.
What he knew and said often was, “When a lucky shot (a bad
opportunity) goes in, the kid who takes it will almost always feel
like he can make those, so you can count on him to take at least
two more like it - and those two almost invariably will miss when
_ it really matters.”
My father believed in this so much, he actually hoped early in
a game that the other team would hit their bad shots. It’s the
basketball version of sword-perishing; he who lives the the bad
shot dies by the bad shot.
I have written several times this year about my respect for the
Duke team, but each time, as I praised the Blue Devils, I always
added that they had one problem yet to be ironed out - the pro-
blem of bad shots - especially those of Johnny Dawkins.
If you saw the ACC final game, you saw Dawkins, in the se-
cond half, charge, turn the ball over on a forced penetration and
shoot four straight bad shots, one of which was so poorly
selected that Jeff Adkins caught the ball in the air.
Coach K did (uncharacteristically) take Dawkins out for a
minute or so, but he re-inserted him (after saying very little) with
about 9 minutes left, and Dawkins promptly put up two more
bad shots, one an air ball, as Maryland took advantage of this
poor playing and turned a three point halftime deficit into a nine
point lead.
The ACC final was no place to learn a lesson that should have
been learned long ago. Dawkins had done the same thing in the
Carolina game on March 3.
It apparently was not pointed out in the UNC game films
after. Dawkins’ post-tournament comments showed that he still
doesn’t realize the devastating effect of bad shots on a‘basketball
team.
“I forced it a little,” he said, “we all did.”
In Dawkins’ defense, it is more difficult for him to understand
good-versus-bad shots because he is so talented that he makes
somes bad shots at times - just often enough I suppose that the
poor percentage of bad shots is not obvious to him.
That’s the learning advantage, you might say, of having little
talent. If a less talented player goes into a game and takes just a
semi-good shot, the coach can yank him from the game and ac-
cuse him of “going crazy.” ; a“
But an exceptional player like Dawkins is a lot tougher to
work with. :
(1) Dawkins usually comes fairly close on whatever kind of
shot he throws up, and (2), Dawkins is Coach K’s boy. He’s
Coach K’s big recruiting coup. In other words, Coach K is un-
doubtedly grateful to Johnny for choosing Duke a couple of
years ago, and it is not easy for him to criticize Johnny directly.
Though Coach K learned his basketball under Bobby Knight,
he is not the bullying type of coach. It’s simply not his style to
directly criticize his stars.
So when Dawkins goes occasionally crazy - as he does in every
game - Coach K gulps a little and he hopes Johnny will learn,
and he hopes Johnny will make up for the mistakes with more
good plays, but he doesn’t tell him bluntly, “Johnny, you're
shooting bad shots.”
It will be interesting to see in the games and years to come, if
Dawkins learns to let his shots result from the offense rather
than going 1-on-1 or just throwing up quick long shots on
momentary whims of confidence.
If Dawkins learns what is a high percentage chance, he will be
one of the greatest players in ACC history. If he doesn’t, Duke
fans will feel more ACC final-type disappointments - winnable
games that get away because one talented and (yes) tough com-
petitor wasn’t taught the percentages of winning basketball.
My father was never quite the star player that Dawkins is, nor
did he rise to the coaching heights of Krzyzewski, but his players
hardly ever took bad shots, and when they did, he rooted against
them, took them out, and told them clearly...bad shots lose
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The 76ers and the Celtics won
the championships in the Kings
Mountain Boys Club Basketball
Tournament which ended Satur-
day.
The 76ers edged the Lakers
56-54 to win the 10-13 year old
division title and the Celtics nip-
ped the Bucks 59-58 to win the
14-16 year old division title.
Greg Young scored 30 points,
Tony Williams 20 and Aaron
Anderson 10 to lead the 76ers to
victory. Jamie Surratte scored 20
points, Shawn Smith 12 and
Thomas Feemster 10 for the
losers.
Ronnie Frazier scored 12
points and Teddy Wilson and
Don Adams added 10 each to
lead the Celtics over the Bucks,
Jerry Jordan scored 18 and Sam
Smith 16 for the Bucks.
In the consolation game of the
10-13 year old tourney, the
Hawks edged the Rockets 60-59.
Robbie Edgerton scored 21
points, Jeff Ross 12 and Mike
Jenkins and Darius Ross 10 each
for the Hawks. Bernard Thomp-
son and James Roberts scored 18
each and John Hill added 10 for
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the Rockets.
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In other action last week, the
Kings Mountain team scored a
56-54 victory over the Gaston
Boys Club on Wednesday, a
43-31 win over the Erwin Center
on Thursday and a 61-53 win
over Shelby Friday at Shelby.
John Hill scored 25 points,
Darius Ross 12 and Jeff Ross 12
to lead the win over Gaston
Boys Club. Al Moore scored 15,
Darius Ross 13 and Spencer
Brown 10 against Erwin Center,
and Lenny Rayford and Aubrey
Hollifield had 12 points each and
Jerry Jordan added 10 against
Shelby.
Kings Mountain’s 10-12 year
old and 13-15 year old teams will
play in the Charlotte Invita-
tional Tournament Friday and
Saturday. The 13-15 year old
team play in a tournament at Er-
win Center on March 30-31.
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Next week, team and in-
dividual pictures will be taken at
the club. The photos will be 5 by
7. Players need to sign up at the
club.
Ef3ctk Stevens
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