Critics of Harrick Keep Going and Going

Like Walt Hazzard and Larry Farmer before him, Jim Harrick uses the time-honored high post offense of John Wooden. I knew John Wooden and Jim Harrick is no John Wooden. Wooden played the game according to the ability of his player and taught the fundamentals of the game above everything else. Jim Harrick either cannot teach or does not understand the fundamentals of either playing or defending against the low post.

The point was well summarized in the California game when the color commentator stated, after a missed shot: “Look, all five UCLA players are staring at the basket, not one of them are screening or blocking out under the basket.”

JOHN J. GOTTES

South Gate