TEAM/DISTRICT & CLASS: Little Cypress-Mauriceville HS, District 22-4A

COACH: Darin Harley

COACH'S E-MAIL ADDRESS: dharley@lcmcisd.org

NO. OF RETURNING STARTERS: 4 (seven lettermen overall)

2006-07 RECORD: 16-16

2006-07 DISTRICT RECORD: 6-8 (4th place)

YOUR PLAYERS TO WATCH (Include height, UPCOMING class and any pertinent
stats):
Players to watch: SR.-Dallas Bean, 6’3” SF (2nd Team All-District); SR.-Matthew Mott, 5’9” PG; SR.-Kevin Cooper, 6’3” PF (2nd Team All-District); SR.-Justin Kinsley, 6’3”_ PF; SR.-C.J. Champine, 6’2” SG (1st Team All-District); SR –David Sicktich, 6’4” C.

YOUR TEAM OUTLOOK/NOTES:
The Bears just missed the playoffs last season and finished 4th overall in district. The Bears return seven lettermen that includes their top six scorers. All-District performers that return include leading scorer C.J. Champine, Dallas Bean and Kevin Cooper. LC-M will be a more experienced team that looks to show strong for a potential playoff spot.

Points of Thought
-“Successful people to me are people that follow the process to become successful"-Jeff Capel OU Head Basketball Coach
-"I'm not known for my patience. Patience is a polite quality and often appropriate, but it rarely gets things done. Impatience, however, is the hunger for results and intolerance for excuses and delays. Impatience got me over countless mountain passes, across the finish line in New York City and through four rounds of ruthless chemotherapy 10 years ago."-Lance Armstrong
-Take "Play-Hard Boulevard" or take "Greyhound out of town", your choice.
-What makes a good team Great is a strong (Positive) bench. The bench is like the bottom of an iceberg. Everyone can see the top of the iceberg, but the real stength is the bottom of the iceberg that no one can see.
-Nothing on earth can stop the man with the right attitude from achieving his goal: nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
-If you think small things don't matter, think of the last game you lost by one point.
-Basketball is 80% confidence and 20% ability. *You need to think about this statement, it is really deep.
-Don't depend on the undependables.
-Challenge is the fuel that drives a winner.

Famous Quotes
Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise-Kobe Bryant
I always fought against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player-Dennis Rodman
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying-Michael Jordan
Be quick, but don't hurry-John Wooden (10 National Basketball Championships at UCLA)

 

My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back.
-- Source Unknown