By its very nature, though, IMG takes a different approach to sports. She used her journalist training and unique insight into the IMG program to explain the unusual way IMG is handling the shutdown in this piece for Sporting News.
Regardless of the distance and time zones that separate them, the players are all in. They are a close team but, for the moment, not geographically. Mara Ochoa Contreras calls from Mexico. Shae Mercer hops on from Texas. The thing about being on a team, nothing replaces that connection with your teammates.
For more than a month, most of the students at IMG Academy have been separated since the coronavirus became a global pandemic and schools were forced to make drastic changes. During spring break, parents were notified that students would not be allowed to return to campus and the school transitioned to an academic distance learning platform that started March As the teachers began preparing online lessons, the athletic department recognized the need to keep coaches and players active during this unprecedented time of social distancing and flattening the curve.
It was a natural progression for the sports-centric boarding school that attracts student-athletes from all over the world. Every Sunday through Thursday, the coaches post a video on the CoachNow app about topics including zone offense, playmaking, and attacking pressure defense.
So what, Urban asked his players, will their verbal, physical or visual cue be to reset themselves after an error? Everything led to finding that individualized cue, and for Williams, that was wiping the bottom of his shoe. It was like a college freshman taking their first psychology class, freeing their mind from the rigidity of thinking, said his father, Ben Williams.
And as Williams grew, from about 5-foot-9 when he started ninth grade to 6-foot-8, the extra height helped him expand his basketball toolbox because Williams already understood the intricacies of a shot, man defense, zone defense and where his strengths as a smaller guard could transition after he grew to resemble a forward. But there was still the missing next step, the next peg of basketball maturity, required to prepare for his college and whatever might come next — and IMG showed him how to get to this level.
With Urban, Williams initiated additional film sessions to pinpoint real-time examples of how to differentiate between reacting and responding. The reactions contained emotion that carried into subsequent plays, like when a referee made a bad call. In situations like those, when frustrations threatened to boil over, Williams learned to use his physical cue, to wipe the bottom of his sneaker, as a way to signify that he moved on from the situation.
Urban and Williams also competed in push up and shooting competitions to see if Williams was making progress on what Urban had taught him. Mornings for Williams occasionally consisted of shooting classes as a window for honing his technique.
Williams, at that point around 6-foot-8, had a lot more elevation that he had to work with than in years past. Baron taught Williams to aim for the back of the rim when shooting because hitting that spot would lead to more success as he became tired at the end of the game.
Sometimes, the hand placement on the ball is different. As Williams incorporated his lower body into the shot more, that would decrease the error of it.
He averaged And when defenders tried to steer him away from the 3-point line, Williams swept past them toward the basket and finished through contact. But before Williams synthesized the two elements of his game like he did with the Ascenders, blending the physical intangibles with the internal understanding of how to maximize them, he needed to fill his evolving frame.
But when he started high school, that trend changed. Williams was growing too fast. When Williams was younger, the doctors had initially told Ben his son would be 6-foot He secretly hoped Williams would be 6-foot-5, because that was the perfect height for a combo guard.
But his son had already shot past that point. He grew from 5-foot-9 in ninth grade to around 6-foot-8 by his second sophomore year, when he arrived at St. Like the IMG staff soon later, Jones wanted Williams to push the ball in transition and understand the right pass to make when double-teams arrived. At IMG, there is an entire strength department. The Academy also is in the process of building a new basketball facility. Schiller, whose last day is Friday, endorses junior varsity coach Luis Morales as the Mustangs' next head coach.
We have a chance to be very good again this year, and I want to do everything I can to support that. Schiller, 40, began his coaching career as a year-old serving as a varsity assistant and junior varsity coach at Brandon High from He was the Osceola High head coach in and was an assistant at Eckerd College from before landing at Lakewood Ranch. Manatee High School is looking for a boys basketball coach and boys tennis coach. Robert Lauster stepped down as the Hurricanes basketball coach.
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