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Ken B said:

No expert, but in my opinion, she is looking pretty spot on and she seems to improve with every video you post. What were her issues?

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Boomers2012 said:

Thank you Ken.

This is probably going to sound arrogant but the caliber of school ball being played where we live, especially at the junior high level, allowed DD to become lazy and just throw strikes. People might say dont let her become lazy.....well that sounds good and all but in reality its not that easy. She didnt take major steps back, just a few baby steps back. Mostly in regards to hitting spots and staying focused. Something we will begin to work on....

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Out in Left Field said:

I don't understand the laziness coming from the level of ball. I grew up playing sports and there were times we dominated (and other times well not so much). The expectations of our school, coaches, parents was that our level had to be top notch regardless. This particularly applies to quarterbacks, pitchers, team leaders. No one should tolerate it. Where did the players get this attitude? If it was my boys attitude, I would tell the coach to pull them out of the game. If it was the coach's fault, I would pull the kids off the team.

Does Geno let UConn slack off in BBall, heck no?

Please explain the contradiction of school she got away with "just throwing strikes" with she has lost "focus on hitting her spots"....

PS , not sure anything like that could be told by looking at 3 seconds of film. We don't see the target or the velocity of the pitches or know that.

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JJsqueeze said:

Like all bucket dads I have an audible alarm that tells me when a girl is throwing insanely fast and the timing from release to where you hear the thwack of the glove in your vid is crazy fast. She looks great. How is the riseball coming?

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Out in Left Field said:

OK, so you want your DD to improve, and you complain about something in school ball. School ball sucks of course and brings everyone down through no ones fault but the school coach and the other players, I guess. So you want congratulations for a 3-second video of skills, not game footage, and for surviving school ball, so OK congratulations. Again how can your two statements be rectified about the strikes?

The individual needs to be a leader and play their best without excuses. Does not matter what the rest are doing--would you tolerate that in academics? No in fact you not only get the kid to do better, but may take the kid to another school or class if the level is not right.

Because you are not telling the whole story. If you want to improve sometimes you gotta hear the truth. How does 3 seconds of film show the issues you describe or anything? And in this situation, I perhaps would suggest the parents and adults around the player need to improve, something BTW I look in the mirror and tell myself every day.

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