Coaches who played or worked for Morris are all over the basketball world.
It was Bron Holland's job to escort a recruit around on his visit to La Salle. Aiming for full disclosure, Holland told this kid, Jeff Neubauer,"We have three first-round guards. You won't play until your junior year."The high school senior, now head coach at Fordham, committed to play for Speedy Morris at La Salle. Neubauer turned out to be ahead of his time. Skip ahead, look at it now, as outrageous milestones pile up. Last weekend, as coach at St.
It's not like Phillips was the only guy in the gym with Speedy ties. St. Joe's Prep assistant Randy Monroe, a former Division I college head coach himself, goes back almost to the beginning, having played for Morris during his early Roman Catholic High years. Keith Morris, another Prep assistant, says it was nepotism that got him on the squad at La Salle, but Speedy's son is a basketball lifer himself.
"We probably weren't the best team, but we thought we were, which is why we won,'' Arrigale said of the team that won the Inter-Ac League title his senior year. "My whole offensive philosophy comes from Speedy,'' Holland said."Not a practice or game goes by without a memory popping into my head.""I bring my guys down and see a Big Five game or Sixers,'' Holland said."He always buys my team cheesesteaks.""There's only one — as Speedy calls it in 'God's Country' — Dalessandro's,'' Holland said.
Lange, who went on to be head coach at Navy and Jay Wright's top assistant at Villanova, has taken that thought to the NBA.Back when Griffin Sr. played at Roman,"preseason practice was like six weeks. Today, he has two weeks. When I talk about boxing out, we did it every day for six weeks. The way we defended the ball and the wing, the way we overplayed a pass — it was tedious. Break it down to the smallest point.
"I said to Johnny, 'You're not going to the Prep, you're a Roman guy.' I called his dad over. 'What about your legacy? You're crazy. You can't let him go there.' Two year later, I'm coaching him [at the Prep], and we win a championship. Then Matt came."As a freshman at the Prep, Colin Curtin tried out for basketball. He got cut. Curtin just wanted to be around the game. He worked up his nerve and walked into the varsity coach's office.
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