When Harlem Invaded Cuba
"There are two secrets to this game [of basketball]. One, you've got to learn to move with the ball the way you move without the ball. And two, you've got to learn to fool your opponent. You've got to make him expect anything except what you are really going to do. Now, watch this film, and you'll see what I mean."
The speaker - Coach Jack Story talking to his 9th grade team in the little hamlet of Cuba, Kentucky (population 150) in late 1948. The film - The legendary Harlem Globetrotters, and boy did the message get across.
Astonished at what they saw in the darkened room that day a handful of farm boys gave birth to a dream that carried them to the ultimate high school dream four years later, the state championship.
After begging to watch the film again, the excited group ran into the gym and practiced what they'd seen over and over again. Doodle Floyd, the natural center had tried to learn a hook shot on his own before without much success, but now he had Goose Tatum's shot to pattern after. And Howie Crittenden became a ball handling wizard trying to copy the moves of Marques Haynes. Coach Story had created a monster, and the boys never tired of inventing new moves, and "Sweet Georgia Brown" even became their fight song.
To master any skill in basketball, and especially to be a great shooter it helps to have great shooters to pattern yourself after. If you want to see what great shooting is all about get your eyeballs over to http://www.deandelker.com/swish.html and take a gander.
The speaker - Coach Jack Story talking to his 9th grade team in the little hamlet of Cuba, Kentucky (population 150) in late 1948. The film - The legendary Harlem Globetrotters, and boy did the message get across.
Astonished at what they saw in the darkened room that day a handful of farm boys gave birth to a dream that carried them to the ultimate high school dream four years later, the state championship.
After begging to watch the film again, the excited group ran into the gym and practiced what they'd seen over and over again. Doodle Floyd, the natural center had tried to learn a hook shot on his own before without much success, but now he had Goose Tatum's shot to pattern after. And Howie Crittenden became a ball handling wizard trying to copy the moves of Marques Haynes. Coach Story had created a monster, and the boys never tired of inventing new moves, and "Sweet Georgia Brown" even became their fight song.
To master any skill in basketball, and especially to be a great shooter it helps to have great shooters to pattern yourself after. If you want to see what great shooting is all about get your eyeballs over to http://www.deandelker.com/swish.html and take a gander.
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