This is not an excuse for how the team is efforting or playing, or how the coaches are coaching, it’s just something to contemplate. Let me offer you this thought experiment scenario on what might possibly be happening.
So, imagine you have a really good ear for language, good enough to make you money someday as an interpreter/translator if you work hard, and a school offers you a scholarship to come learn and hone your skills for the next level in life. So you pack up your things and you head off to college to study under one of the better professors.
You get on campus early and you are allowed to take non-credit instruction from the professor before your actual classes begin so you have time to get used to the way he’s teaching. That goes well but right before you have your first class that professor is suspended from teaching by the school and his assistant has to take over. You’ve gotten used to his teaching and now it’s on someone else.
The assistant has never taught before and since he’s not an exact clone of the professor he teaches a slightly different way and now your brain is having to switch off the prof’s version to concentrate on this newer version. You start to get comfortable with teh second method but then the prof is reinstated and he comes back but while he’s been gone he’s decided he’s going to incorporate some new tweeks to his original plan so now you are having to learn a third method.
Classes are now at full speed and you are being asked to translate in the fly in real time situations and your brain starts getting tripped up on which method you should be using and it’s making you uncomfortable. Instead of just naturally translating what’s coming you are thinking and reacting, not anticipating. It’s like you need to be translating a southern draw and it’s connotations but you’re using the northern version and everything is coming out backwards. Or you need to be using the northern dialect and the southern one pops in every once in a while. easy mistakes but terrible outcomes as you've not done your job.
You and your classmates begin to fumble your exercises and your tests and everyone is having a hard time switching between which way to use. There is so much confusion among the students that this results in the school asking the professor to step down and they promote the assistant.
Now you’ve got to throw out first and third versions of what you learned and go back to the second of that assistant. And this all ends up being a failure because too many changes in learning have occurred too quickly. Now your brain is just so frazzled from all the different methods that you know longer know which one is which and what is right.
And, finally, at the end of the year, they ask the assistant to leave the school also and they bring in another person who has never taught before and you now have to learn a fifth way of doing things within a year. And that fifth way has not been proven to work as a method at all and is just pure speculation that this way will lead you to any success. and on top of all this, all the students and alumni and fans of the school are yelling at you, making terrbile socail posts about you adn your classmates and this additional stress adn pressure is not helping you learn at all, it's actually making ti worse. I mean you're just a kid who wanted to translate and now you're being assaulted from all sides saying that you are incompetent.
So in a years’ time, you went from wanting to learn from someone who gave you a scholarship to having him switched out twice for an assistant and then having that assistant fired and replaced with someone with absolutely no experience teaching in your field at all. You brain constantly trying to switch between what you’ve learned and it’s synapses are getting rewired in the wrong ways and thus producing the unintended results. Now the fans hate you for looking like you’ve learned nothing, but what you brain learned was to actually be confused. Under these circumstances do you think you would be a good translator in live, stressful, tension packed situations? No you wouldn’t and if you say you would you are a liar.
So if you can understand how a translator going thru this situation might not be able to translate under pressure, in real time, and not be confident in what they are doing, and may look incompetent, then maybe you have some insight to what all the players may be going thru. and none of this is your current teachers fault, he's trying, yo';ve just been thru the wringer to much.
Who knows, but in just over a year or so, they’ve been thru essentially four different teaching methods as Mack adapted his to use Pegues methods too so nothing has been stable, nothing has been true, and nothing has been consistent. You put kids who are confused against kids you know their system and no matter the talent, the kids who know their system will always beat the ones who are running around reacting, and not anticipating.
Simply put, our players have to think constantly, have to think where I am supposed to be now, have to think what is the other team doing. Whereas every team we’ve played is comfortable in their system already and even if you are 1/10 of a second behind, that 1/10 is the difference in a player blowing by you, or getting the rebound, or making a steal, etc. Our players have to think non-stop and they cannot anticipate.
I don’t think this is truly on KP, I think our players have zero confidence on what to do because they’ve had five different systems in their brain in twelve months and each of those systems calls for different cues.
Maybe just maybe, our players are broken mentally. When I listen to the game on the radio, paul and bob constantly say when a player misses a shot they hang their head in disappointment. They need something positive to build on yet there’s none to be found. So I’ll 100% accept a zero win season because I understand their brains, but at some point the baby steps need to be going forward. Just my two cents, but someone also gave me a penny for my thoughts.
So, imagine you have a really good ear for language, good enough to make you money someday as an interpreter/translator if you work hard, and a school offers you a scholarship to come learn and hone your skills for the next level in life. So you pack up your things and you head off to college to study under one of the better professors.
You get on campus early and you are allowed to take non-credit instruction from the professor before your actual classes begin so you have time to get used to the way he’s teaching. That goes well but right before you have your first class that professor is suspended from teaching by the school and his assistant has to take over. You’ve gotten used to his teaching and now it’s on someone else.
The assistant has never taught before and since he’s not an exact clone of the professor he teaches a slightly different way and now your brain is having to switch off the prof’s version to concentrate on this newer version. You start to get comfortable with teh second method but then the prof is reinstated and he comes back but while he’s been gone he’s decided he’s going to incorporate some new tweeks to his original plan so now you are having to learn a third method.
Classes are now at full speed and you are being asked to translate in the fly in real time situations and your brain starts getting tripped up on which method you should be using and it’s making you uncomfortable. Instead of just naturally translating what’s coming you are thinking and reacting, not anticipating. It’s like you need to be translating a southern draw and it’s connotations but you’re using the northern version and everything is coming out backwards. Or you need to be using the northern dialect and the southern one pops in every once in a while. easy mistakes but terrible outcomes as you've not done your job.
You and your classmates begin to fumble your exercises and your tests and everyone is having a hard time switching between which way to use. There is so much confusion among the students that this results in the school asking the professor to step down and they promote the assistant.
Now you’ve got to throw out first and third versions of what you learned and go back to the second of that assistant. And this all ends up being a failure because too many changes in learning have occurred too quickly. Now your brain is just so frazzled from all the different methods that you know longer know which one is which and what is right.
And, finally, at the end of the year, they ask the assistant to leave the school also and they bring in another person who has never taught before and you now have to learn a fifth way of doing things within a year. And that fifth way has not been proven to work as a method at all and is just pure speculation that this way will lead you to any success. and on top of all this, all the students and alumni and fans of the school are yelling at you, making terrbile socail posts about you adn your classmates and this additional stress adn pressure is not helping you learn at all, it's actually making ti worse. I mean you're just a kid who wanted to translate and now you're being assaulted from all sides saying that you are incompetent.
So in a years’ time, you went from wanting to learn from someone who gave you a scholarship to having him switched out twice for an assistant and then having that assistant fired and replaced with someone with absolutely no experience teaching in your field at all. You brain constantly trying to switch between what you’ve learned and it’s synapses are getting rewired in the wrong ways and thus producing the unintended results. Now the fans hate you for looking like you’ve learned nothing, but what you brain learned was to actually be confused. Under these circumstances do you think you would be a good translator in live, stressful, tension packed situations? No you wouldn’t and if you say you would you are a liar.
So if you can understand how a translator going thru this situation might not be able to translate under pressure, in real time, and not be confident in what they are doing, and may look incompetent, then maybe you have some insight to what all the players may be going thru. and none of this is your current teachers fault, he's trying, yo';ve just been thru the wringer to much.
Who knows, but in just over a year or so, they’ve been thru essentially four different teaching methods as Mack adapted his to use Pegues methods too so nothing has been stable, nothing has been true, and nothing has been consistent. You put kids who are confused against kids you know their system and no matter the talent, the kids who know their system will always beat the ones who are running around reacting, and not anticipating.
Simply put, our players have to think constantly, have to think where I am supposed to be now, have to think what is the other team doing. Whereas every team we’ve played is comfortable in their system already and even if you are 1/10 of a second behind, that 1/10 is the difference in a player blowing by you, or getting the rebound, or making a steal, etc. Our players have to think non-stop and they cannot anticipate.
I don’t think this is truly on KP, I think our players have zero confidence on what to do because they’ve had five different systems in their brain in twelve months and each of those systems calls for different cues.
Maybe just maybe, our players are broken mentally. When I listen to the game on the radio, paul and bob constantly say when a player misses a shot they hang their head in disappointment. They need something positive to build on yet there’s none to be found. So I’ll 100% accept a zero win season because I understand their brains, but at some point the baby steps need to be going forward. Just my two cents, but someone also gave me a penny for my thoughts.
