Showing posts with label landry kosmalski. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landry kosmalski. Show all posts
3.23.2010
Why was I tearing up?
Landry after Georgetown: ... I did not know if I could articulate my thoughts to anyone. Luckily, I was sitting next to my former teammate and roommate, Ali Ton, and when I saw the emotion on his face, I knew that he did not need an explanation. When I left my seat and went out into the hallways of the RBC Center and saw the students and fans cheering, high-fiving, chest-bumping, and singing the fight song, I again realized that no explanation was necessary. The Davidson people understood it: against long odds our team accomplished a near miracle.
3.03.2010
JP: SoCon Freshman of the Year
Back on Dec. 4 in Charleston: These two rookies. And: The Southern Conference Freshman of the Year is going to be a Davidson Wildcat. Today: Kuhlman joins current assistant coach Landry Kosmalski and Stephen Curry as the only Wildcats to claim the coaches’ Freshman of the Year accolade. With Jake, of course, on the all-rookie team, too: It’s the first time Davidson has had two players on the All-Freshman Team since 2003, when Ian Johnson and Brendan Winters earned the honor. Telep in August. JP in Jacksonville. JP Kuhlman from St Paul's Middle School ...: Florida Hoops.
12.12.2009
12.03.2009
Thoughts at the half at McAlister
1. I like it when those big guys take (and make) threes. Or even just take them. 1. Because they’re good shots. 2. Because it feels like Davidson basketball. Makes me think of Landry shooting them, or Stephen Marshall, or Martin Ides, or ...
2. McKillop: “Steve! Singles!”
3. About two and a half minutes before the break: McKillop calls timeout. Draws something up. Two-man game on the left side with JP and Jake. Turns into two points. Ken came over to say that those two scored 16 of the Wildcats’ last 19 points. Noted.
4. That’s a pretty good half against a pretty good team in this league.
5. Also: nice little turnout in red here for a Thursday in the Lowcountry. Spotted in the stands: Hobby Cobb, Danny Smith, Lee Sargent, Big Steve Rossiter, the Barrs, the Archambaults, Will Bryan’s folks ...
2. McKillop: “Steve! Singles!”
3. About two and a half minutes before the break: McKillop calls timeout. Draws something up. Two-man game on the left side with JP and Jake. Turns into two points. Ken came over to say that those two scored 16 of the Wildcats’ last 19 points. Noted.
4. That’s a pretty good half against a pretty good team in this league.
5. Also: nice little turnout in red here for a Thursday in the Lowcountry. Spotted in the stands: Hobby Cobb, Danny Smith, Lee Sargent, Big Steve Rossiter, the Barrs, the Archambaults, Will Bryan’s folks ...
11.26.2009
Retro jerseys!
Matt Nicholson offers up the idea over on Cats.com. For instance:
It’s a great idea. Who do we need to talk to to make this happen? And who else? My proposed addition: #40 Kosmalski. Or Williams. Your choice.
#44 Hetzel
#10 Snyder
#15 Maloy
#33 Gerdy
#11 Rucker
#13 Huckel
It’s a great idea. Who do we need to talk to to make this happen? And who else? My proposed addition: #40 Kosmalski. Or Williams. Your choice.
5.06.2009
It’s official: Landry’s back
Train: “It’s going to be special to be reunited with Coach McKillop and go back to my alma mater. It’s a great opportunity. Having experienced life as a Davidson student-athlete, I have a strong understanding of what the team has to go through day in and day out.” DavidsonNews.net.
4.17.2009
4.09.2009
12.03.2008
Back in Indiana
Sorry. Been busy. But this came over yesterday on a Google alert.
Good guy, Henney.
He told me in May in my reporting that his first exposure to Davidson basketball was in 2004. Henney’s from Indiana, Fort Wayne native, IU grad, but in 2004 he was a civics teacher and the head tennis coach and the assistant basketball coach at Fred T. Foard High School in Newton, N.C., and that summer he worked McKillop’s camp.
What struck him the most, he said, was that (1) McKillop was always there -- at many camps the head coach is there only when the parents drop their kids off and then again when they pick them back up -- and that (2) McKillop in about two days knew like 80 percent of the kids’ names.
He worked camp again in the summer of ’05, Henney did, and then in the winter of ’05-’06 he drove to Davidson three, four evenings a week, he said, to watch the Wildcats practice. Hour each way. After teaching school. After coaching HIS practice.
Totally worth it, he said.
Basketball people talk about Bob McKillop-run practices, and how physical they are, and how precise they are.
Len Kosmalski, who played in the NBA, and the father, obviously, of Landry and Logan, told me last summer about watching a practice on Landry’s recruiting visit way back when.
“Everything was right down to the minute,” he said. “Not a minute was wasted.”
Here's what the Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy said in May when we talked about McKillop and his practices: “A lot of guys get to that level by selling themselves as coaches and selling the program. There are very few out there who teach the game as well as Bob.”
Anyway, Henney was hired in '06, and was on staff for two years, and in those two years Davidson won 58 games. Not bad.
Good guy, Henney.
He told me in May in my reporting that his first exposure to Davidson basketball was in 2004. Henney’s from Indiana, Fort Wayne native, IU grad, but in 2004 he was a civics teacher and the head tennis coach and the assistant basketball coach at Fred T. Foard High School in Newton, N.C., and that summer he worked McKillop’s camp.
What struck him the most, he said, was that (1) McKillop was always there -- at many camps the head coach is there only when the parents drop their kids off and then again when they pick them back up -- and that (2) McKillop in about two days knew like 80 percent of the kids’ names.
He worked camp again in the summer of ’05, Henney did, and then in the winter of ’05-’06 he drove to Davidson three, four evenings a week, he said, to watch the Wildcats practice. Hour each way. After teaching school. After coaching HIS practice.
Totally worth it, he said.
Basketball people talk about Bob McKillop-run practices, and how physical they are, and how precise they are.
Len Kosmalski, who played in the NBA, and the father, obviously, of Landry and Logan, told me last summer about watching a practice on Landry’s recruiting visit way back when.
“Everything was right down to the minute,” he said. “Not a minute was wasted.”
Here's what the Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy said in May when we talked about McKillop and his practices: “A lot of guys get to that level by selling themselves as coaches and selling the program. There are very few out there who teach the game as well as Bob.”
Anyway, Henney was hired in '06, and was on staff for two years, and in those two years Davidson won 58 games. Not bad.
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