Little field space. Scrimmages on a narrow field. A bunch of people who don't know how to run a stack. A beautiful recipe for disaster.
Freshmen that stuck out, but mainly the only names i remember lol.
Sean: From Washington, the geographic heart of Ultimate at the moment. Sean has played since 5TH GRADE! That means he has a lot of experience, and potentially a lot of bad habits to rework. I am afraid he won't be able to take on advice well or adjust to our system as quickly as we would like him to, if we took him. For now, he is tighter than me on a few levels because he can bid better than I can haha.
John: He played the pickup after the tryout ended. Athletic/fast as fuck, very open to direction. Nice dude.
Cody: Played in high school. Solid throws, great knowledge of the game. I would like to how fast he can sprint.
Tommy: Vereb's little bro. His grin creeped the fuck out of me hahaha, looked just like Mike's. Looked very athletic and intelligent. Open to direction.
Kevin: Minner's little bro. Didn't look to great to be honest. That's due to unreasonable expectations, thinking him a third coming of Minner before he has had time to learn and earn it. As a team I think we need to look at his skills w/o any expectations. Oh and we need to stop inviting him to parties for the time being. No coddling. He doesn't even drink lol.
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As for my play, I did ok. Eh.
Cons:
- Bad flick huck to Andy. Way too OI.
- My pulls. Started to overthink it. Le sigh.
- Got beat deep by Tristan. Rookie mistake on my part. Didn't keep the force.
- Need to pull out the poach. Bobby took an extended trip to poach town for some reason.
Pros:
- Good handler movement.
- Decent cuts.
- Stayed on my man for the most part. My new cleats feel LIKE BUTTAH (butter). Able to change direction efficiently.
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As for our class, didn't see us play enough as to allow a judgement or critique. If I was forced to stay something I would talk about improving our throws. Making them more orthodox in technique is what we should have in mind.
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This blog will be a great way for our class to express our ideas, suggestions, and perhaps frustrations with the game that we play in the years to come, as we strive to improve ourselves and others on the team.
Agree with your assessment of tryouts.
ReplyDeleteI talked to AC about the drills we ran today. Apparently, only one A Team member can teach the group and has full talking rights. Everyone else was supposed to stand quietly, help in examples, and give individual advice. I expressed to AC that I don't think this method is the greatest for these kids. I was stationed at the 'Defense Station' and it was terrible. I thought the station could have been run a TON smoother if the group was split between the team members at the station. There were at least 5 of us and only MTD was allowed to explain things to the group. The kids didn't ask questions either, which bothered me. I remember nagging the crap out of AC with questions during tryouts last year.
-Didn't see Kevin or Tommy play. I liked that John kid. He listened well and seemed athletic. Cody's good too. We have three more tryouts to really assess, so let's give these other kids a fair shot.
Sorry for the rant.
OHH!! BRAH!!! PITTED! SOOO PITTED!
As for hucks, make everything too IO for the time being. If you turn it over cuz the huck was a little too IO, you can just blame me. "Niji made me do it," will probably work at least a couple of times.
ReplyDeleteAnd throws, god, why do you guys suck so much dick at throwing :P Go out and throw MOAR you n00bz. Sami, Zach, and I all had better throws than all of you at this point. I don't even have to actually look at your throws to know. I just know. Are you gonna be able to live with that? I sure hope not.
Oh ya. It's good to pick out the shoo-ins, but the more important thing in the upcoming tryouts is to watch for the underdogs, those kids that nobody really notices but have a lot of potential. Cuz honestly, its easy to pick the top 5 or so. From there? It's tough. How many guys are you planning on taking anyway?