You guys did it Reggie's Team at the LIT starting Thursday.

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Reggie, can you idiot proof this for me? Provide a link to donate and provide text for the donator so that they know it should go to your team? Thanks!
Oh, I hope I didn't screw this up - I just put "go Reggie's team" and signed it "mwonow." Reggie, what else should I do to make sure that the donation goes to your club?
 

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Oh, I hope I didn't screw this up - I just put "go Reggie's team" and signed it "mwonow." Reggie, what else should I do to make sure that the donation goes to your club?
Great work, I don't think many could label their PAYPAL donations (I didn't).

It's a good cause and the organization is cognizant that the recent increase in donations is related to Reggie's efforts/team. Hopefully, the inability to label doesn't persuade anybody from donating. This organization has helped Reggie/Walter Murray's program in the past.
 

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Good news is that we have been approved to attend the tournament and are officially invited! My admin at the school still wants me to raise some money, since there are teams that can replace us at the last moment. But the activity and donations the last two days make me close to 100% we are going.

I was told at 1400 this morning.

The Team is Walter Murray, but all donations are helpful.

If you want a step by step
https://helpone.ca/saskatoon-charity/Donate


This link has a "contact us" at the bottom where you can write
"I am donating to support Walter Murray Boy Basketball"

In the middle of the page "donate" link that you have to takes you to the Paypal page.
 

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Walter Murray, going to the dance! Won't cousin Arthur be surprised!

Please let us know if you need additional donations, happy to make sure that I follow protocol next time.
 

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Walter Murray, going to the dance! Won't cousin Arthur be surprised!

Please let us know if you need additional donations, happy to make sure that I follow protocol next time.
Often mistaken. Years ago a guy I knew was a star hockey player and had to lie and say he lived in Saskatoon. When pressed by the person checking registration, he said he attended "Arthur Murray".
@reggiecleveland - where you at / whats your total so far?
I hope to get an Update this weekend.

In a related note yesterday we won entrance into the other top Saskatchewan tournament. The Bedford Road Individual Tournament, by winning a playing game Game was a formality 80-44. This tournament does not cost us anything since it is local, but will stream on yuotube.
https://britbasketball.net/
 

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Often mistaken. Years ago a guy I knew was a star hockey player and had to lie and say he lived in Saskatoon. When pressed by the person checking registration, he said he attended "Arthur Murray".

I hope to get an Update this weekend.

In a related note yesterday we won entrance into the other top Saskatchewan tournament. The Bedford Road Individual Tournament, by winning a playing game Game was a formality 80-44. This tournament does not cost us anything since it is local, but will stream on yuotube.
https://britbasketball.net/
Congrats, Reggie, sounds like Walter Murray is "a wagon!"
 

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Well our league is quite weak. We are a small city of around 275,000 people and almost all the best players go to two schools, mine and one down the block, that beat us earlier. It wasn't always like this, Walter Murray wasn't one of the hoops schools as recently as 7 years ago. I began with group of freshman, my sons winning a JV championship, and kids have bought in. We had a great shot at a city title when covid hit in 2020. That was my son's team, so it was tough not to play that one. Another coach at the school has brought up and developed young players that are the core of this team, and we have a culture where we have 15 plus guys at the gym every am shooting. So in out own little corner of the FIBA world we are pretty good.
 

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Well our league is quite weak. We are a small city of around 275,000 people and almost all the best players go to two schools, mine and one down the block, that beat us earlier. It wasn't always like this, Walter Murray wasn't one of the hoops schools as recently as 7 years ago. I began with group of freshman, my sons winning a JV championship, and kids have bought in. We had a great shot at a city title when covid hit in 2020. That was my son's team, so it was tough not to play that one. Another coach at the school has brought up and developed young players that are the core of this team, and we have a culture where we have 15 plus guys at the gym every am shooting. So in out own little corner of the FIBA world we are pretty good.
Drove through in 2005, ended up staying the night in Yorkton. You might feel like a small city, but Yorkton was like the hotel area around Buffalo airport.
 

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Drove through in 2005, ended up staying the night in Yorkton. You might feel like a small city, but Yorkton was like the hotel area around Buffalo airport.
Yorkton is around 20,000, which is about 8,000 more than my town about 2.5 hours south of Yorkton
Yorkton is a good town though
 

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Some highlights here if anyone is interested: https://www.hudl.com/team/v2/477301/Boys-Varsity-Basketball.

Love the 3P shooting!
The Hudl program autogenerates those highlights.
I have one player #1 a freshman, who is a next-level shooter. I am not sure I have coached a better shooter outside of the pros. He is bit under 6 feet so if he grows 2-3 inches he is div 1. He gets to 6'3 he probably wears a red Maple Leaf at some point.

Hey Update we are stuck at 1440. A great haul to be sure. It was suggested moving the thread to p and G. Not sure what people think.
 
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The Hudl program autogenerates those highlights.
I have one player #1 a freshman, who is a next-level shooter. I am not sure I have coached a better shooter outside of the pros. He is bit under 6 feet so if he grows 2-3 inches he is div 1. He gets to 6'3 he probably wears a red Maple Leaf at some point.

Hey Update we are stuck at 1440. A great haul to be sure. It was suggested moving the thread to p and G. Not sure what people think.
You have a Hudl? How is it working for you. My son's 12 YO soccer team just got a VEO (not my idea).

If it were me, I'd post something in P&G. Lot more traffic than Port Cellar. E.g., P&G has over 454K messages; Port Cellar only $251K.
 

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Gauntlet has been thrown and the challenge graciously accepted by Reggie.

He and I will each shoot 30 FTs, and I will donate $10 per miss (mine and his) to the cause.

Probably should have asked if you’re better than Ben Wallace from the charity stripe before fleshing this out but oh well, it’s for the kids!

I’ll post video of my shots either tonight or tomorrow night.
 

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Gauntlet has been thrown and the challenge graciously accepted by Reggie.

He and I will each shoot 30 FTs, and I will donate $10 per miss (mine and his) to the cause.

Probably should have asked if you’re better than Ben Wallace from the charity stripe before fleshing this out but oh well, it’s for the kids!

I’ll post video of my shots either tonight or tomorrow night.
Your misses should count as double
 

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Your misses should count as double
It should be your misses and his makes. Otherwise, I sense a cold streak coming for Reggie.
This is why I hate writing with a large group. Everybody has their own little opinions and it all gets homogenized and you lose the whole edge of it! I’m going with jerkstore!

I think @reggiecleveland is a standup guy and will do his best on his 30 attempts. I’ll set a floor at $30 regardless of the results.
 

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No I am coaching and gym time is valuable. It is holiday we got short gym time. The coach taking one of the hoops to shoot is not a priority. After XMAS I will have more flexibility.
You don't need to take a hoop. He only missed one because he was shooting at the same time as other people.
 

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He took 30 in 4:30. So you had 1:30 but didn't have another 3 minutes?
You’re raising money for the team. Make them aware of The Challenge and let them ”help” you with the shooting.
SMH
Suffice to say I just didn't fit a FT contest.
I freely accept I am unlikely to shoot as well as GC.
 
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Other coaches help me out.

I have appreciated the support, but not people giving me shit over coaching my team and using my most valuable commodity (gym time) the way I decide to use it. I will continue to use my gym time the way that has allowed me to turn this program around. Just trust me in that I don't waste time, and have taught my players not to waste time. When my guys are shooting I am watching giving feedback they don't need me in the way. We have been in a league schedule where we share gym time with 5 other teams. I want 120 minutes each practice and the last five gym times have been 90, 90, 60, 60, 90. So yeah there wasn't 3 minutes. I also don't bring my phone to practice.
There are still 1440 minutes in a day thought right? I'm not sure why it even had to be while your team, or any team was practicing, or even in the same gym you practiced in.
 

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Damn, high school boxing sounds way more intense than professional boxing.

Still though my man - everyone would rather dunk than be good at free throws. You don’t have to take it so hard.
 

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There are still 1440 minutes in a day thought right? I'm not sure why it even had to be while your team, or any team was practicing, or even in the same gym you practiced in.
I will accept scheduling advice from you for a 50 dollar donation. Send both in a DM

Damn, high school boxing sounds way more intense than professional boxing.

Still though my man - everyone would rather dunk than be good at free throws. You don’t have to take it so hard.
I was attemtping a joke, but high school kids do not understand intensity like pros. If you structure a practice as full of activity, intensity it is actually more fun and kids learn it is more fun to be instense. You ramp up and down depending on the time of the season. We had big games while the gym was used for music ect (welcome to Canada) so we went short and hard. Some of it is a trick, making pratice time seem sacred, raisies the effort and carries over into the impending games. We came out blazing in both, both were over early. We don't play for two weeks so it goes down. But basketballis a team game and in that way entirely different from boxing where the personality of one athlete is all that is in play. a team buying into playing hard is not an easy thing to acheive, for this particular group, tight really hard practices work. I have had other groups with guys that were innate competitors and I had to calm them down or else they would all foul out.
 

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Other coaches help me out.

I have appreciated the support, but not people giving me shit over coaching my team and using my most valuable commodity (gym time) the way I decide to use it. I will continue to use my gym time the way that has allowed me to turn this program around. Just trust me in that I don't waste time, and have taught my players not to waste time. When my guys are shooting I am watching giving feedback they don't need me in the way. We have been in a league schedule where we share gym time with 5 other teams. I want 120 minutes each practice and the last five gym times have been 90, 90, 60, 60, 90. So yeah there wasn't 3 minutes. I also don't bring my phone to practice.

If you have ever been to practice of a really good team, you can feel the intensity. You can feel it when they walk in the gym. A 57 year old coach saying GTF out of the way while I blast one adds to that. This doesn't "Hey go over there while I fucking shoot free throws for 5 minutes. Why am I shooting FTS? remember that trip I said we were going on? Well we actually can't afford to go, but some asshole on the internet thinks instead of secretly raising the money I should fucking stop practice and tell you about it, I have no fucking idea how they think they know how* I should run practice, but fuck believe me they do. Yeah I am fucking tired. I am 57 and get up at 5:45am every goddam day to get another hour of gym time for you guys."

* Ido know itis an internet group dedicated to complaining about sports, and I partake often.

(hallway next day)
"Hi superintendent, yeah we lost. Well I decided for like 30 fucking bucks to shoot FTS in the middle of practice instead of that 5 minute window I had for press break. Well some fucking little guy I never met wants to prove he can shoot free throws better than me because I can dunk and he can't. Yeah if one of my players wanted to fuck up practice for some stranger on the internet I would lose it, but I thought, fuck I'm the coach, why should I set an example."
Wow, some little guy thinks he can shoot FT better than you? I don’t “think” I can….but this was supposed to be a fun way to help you raise money. But hey, in the holiday spirit, go fuck yourself. Merry Christmas.
 

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Wow, some little guy thinks he can shoot FT better than you? I don’t “think” I can….but this was supposed to be a fun way to help you raise money. But hey, in the holiday spirit, go fuck yourself. Merry Christmas.
Sorry I was making a joke and it fell flat. That was unfair.
I am just tired and busy. I wanted to give the FTs an honest try, but I couldn't.

You absolutely can shoot FTs better than me, and I expect that release transfers well to 3pt range. I don't really shoot much at all anymore but 29/30 was pretty rare for me even when I was a player. I am generall an 8/10 guy. So 25-27 30 would be a good number for me at any point 18/30 possible as a result today.

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I have a few pure shooters on my team maybe you can shoot off against them.
 

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Another charity fundraising thread for high school athletes turns tragic.
 

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Another charity fundraising thread for high school athletes turns tragic.
I’m directing my donation to the opposition now in light of Reggie’s assault on the little guy……
 

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I think I would address this. What I offer is an explanation just to supplement an apology. I would rather get raked again, than simply slip away unseen. I was under an immense amount of stress and handled it badly. I guess ruining this thread, and an online rep was better than a technical foul or throwing a student out a window, but it is still a big regret.

I have been involved in basketball a long time and I firmly believe there are thousands (probably a million worldwide in all sports) who work as hard as any pro coach or player. I tried for a short time to be pro player and it was not lack of effort that held me back. So I am one of the people not in pro sports that others think take it too seriously, etc, but we do it out of love.

I have been pleasantly shocked at famous coaches like Dean Smith, Coach K, Hubie Brown that have to be pulled away by handlers because they wanted to keep talking to high school coaches. There is a lot of bullshit, but I believe most are genuine in the belief that coaching is a sacred thing, and high school coaches are the hardest workers. I have coached at higher levels and if anything, it is easier than high school.

You must keep in mind despite the climbing quality of basketball in Canada, I live in a part of Canada that Trump flags are not uncommon, and hockey and football are seen as king, despite more kids playing basketball. That basketball, even in this redneck part of the world, is dominated by black kids doesn’t help it get money or prestige. It means institutionally within schools we are given a backseat. That means despite my team’s success, I have to beg for money online or turn down tournaments. I have to sweep the floor, I have to fund raise, drive the team bus etc. I don’t get a dime for coaching. I still teach fulltime, and and my partner in ESL has cancer and a lot of admin duties fall to me, and of course that is small amount to ask for a sick friend, but it does add up.

I am doing all this one last time because, despite it all high school hoops is still the best. Kids are playing with their friends in front of their family, and the enthusiasm cannot be beat. The improvement that can be made is incredible.

The week of my meltdown I had gym times pulled for musical rehearsals. I had major stressing events with students, sick family, a racist remark directed at one of my players, and it was forty fucking below. So when I when one member here trolled me about hours in a day and how I was being dishonest about not having time I snapped. Had I not been way behind in admin duties I would not have broken my own rule and had my computer in bed with me when I was tired and written that dumbass response.

Anyway I am sorry. My kids are still great kids and we are incredibly grateful for the support.
 

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Game will be on YouTube after so you can watch the end. Hopefully I don't make too many errors.

Classic matchup they are much bigger we have better guards