Linndale News and Notes--- The Rotation
Since training the week of the "backwards lineup" to train guards inside offense, Kyle Knowles has been a house afire. He's scored 47 and 43 points respectively in the two league games since, with a combined 16 of 31 from deep. He's also achieved his first 15.0 or higher ratings of the season in league play, hitting 15.5 and then 16.0 respectively. In that span he's 33 of 64 from the field. with 7 steals, 7 assists, and 1 turnover. In the same period, Bobbie Coenen has 14 assists, 1 turnover and 7 steals. He'a also had his highest ratings of the season with a 15.0 followed up with a 14.5. Since his arrival, he has 65 assists to 5 turnovers in league play. That's a 13 to 1 assist to turnover ratio! That's so insane, we're asking STATS to verify that.
Paul Lutz in the same two game period averaged 24 ppg, with 7 boards and 5.5 dimes, 3 steals and 2.5 blocks.
That trio clearly likes this new style.
Arley Coronado has only played 1 of those games since the backwards lineup going 22pts, 12 boards, an assist and 4 steals. Frontcourt mate Mikhail Klimenkov has also only played 1 game in that period, going for 8 points and 11 boards with an assist. Observers note that during the backwards lineup, Klimenkov averaged 15 pts, 9 boards 2 assists and 4 steals; while never a huge scorer, Klimenkov seems willing to give up shot attempts and focus on what is needed from him for the sake of the team. Privately, coaches wonder how to light that fire and unleash his inner beast.
Árpád Sütöri is said to be working furiously on his inside game. When asked about his goal, he indicated making Linndale's bench more versatile would be beneficial to running the press full time. "I'm just trying to be one of the guys on the floor when we finally explode. We haven't even hit our stride yet..." Joe Brown similarly agrees: "Coach told me what to work on and that's what I'm doing. I don't think they understand what's coming if we get firing on all cylinders, and I say that knowing full well I may not be on the floor for that explosion, but I 'm gonna try as hard as I can to be!" Brown says he's working on his jumper and his work on the boards. Nick Guevara says he can work on both his inside and outside games, but he really wants to on his passing, too. He's hoping to get some time at guard to work on his passing and his perimeter defense. "Gotta tighten that up; I wanna be able to go back and play some small forward if needed." When asked what he was working on, Musa Özol said passing and inside play. He says his goal is to either take the starter's job from Knowles or be a 20 point guy off the bench. He knows he has work to do. Duilio Teti wants another inside camp for the guards. "If we can make our layups, that's huge. Coach figures we win at least 2 and maybe 3 of the games we lost. "We still don't have an answer for Philly Dribble, but maybe the answer is to make them answer us. We'll see..."
Balthasar Gebhardt Datler says he's focused on the inside game right now, but will be working on those perimeter skills too. He says he wants the backup center minutes when postseason comes. Kevin Jung, for his part, says he'll help where he can, but his focus is on tightening up his inside game and finding time to steal minutes to develop his perimeter game. It looks like these two will be going back and forth for that spot come the postseason.
Attempts to speak with Daniel Gale were refused. When asked about him, players indicated off the record he's got a lot of growing up to do. Said one player, "I'd like to take him under my wing, but he's not a kid. He's a professional now. Dancing in the locker room when we think he's injured ain't a good look."
Last edited by Speedtraps at 9/19/2022 12:34:07 AM