Richard's game has growth spurt (Chicago Tribune)
from the chicago tribune and the other ISU board. need to register, but a good read.....
Developing confidence and serious approach biggest keys to success for Richards standout
Barry Temkin
December 16, 2007
The basketball saga of Carl Richard may have a big ending.
His father, also named Carl, and his grandfather both had huge growth spurts after high school, so the Richards senior could wind up as some 7-foot collegiate post player instead of a 6-5 guard or small forward.
If so, it would be perfectly in keeping with a career that has been unpredictable from the start. This is, after all, a kid who at first resisted his father's entreaties to play the game, preferring to play video games instead. He made his 7th-grade team on a lark but soon stopped showing up, and he played in 8th grade only after friends talked him into it.
Richard then made the freshman team at Young and skipped the first day of practice. Young was loaded with talent, and Richard, who had a big-time hoops inferiority complex, doubted he would fit in.
"I had no confidence at all," he said Wednesday.
All that began to change during an open gym the summer before Richard's sophomore season when he simply dunked a basketball. He had done it before, but not in front of teammates, and he suddenly became the object of increased affection when it came to choosing sides for pickup games.
"I thought, 'Maybe I am getting kind of decent,'" he said. "That's when my self-esteem got a little higher.
"I got serious about basketball. It's when I really wanted to play all the time."
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-temkin16dec16,1,244855.story?ctrack=2&cset=true
from the chicago tribune and the other ISU board. need to register, but a good read.....
Developing confidence and serious approach biggest keys to success for Richards standout
Barry Temkin
December 16, 2007
The basketball saga of Carl Richard may have a big ending.
His father, also named Carl, and his grandfather both had huge growth spurts after high school, so the Richards senior could wind up as some 7-foot collegiate post player instead of a 6-5 guard or small forward.
If so, it would be perfectly in keeping with a career that has been unpredictable from the start. This is, after all, a kid who at first resisted his father's entreaties to play the game, preferring to play video games instead. He made his 7th-grade team on a lark but soon stopped showing up, and he played in 8th grade only after friends talked him into it.
Richard then made the freshman team at Young and skipped the first day of practice. Young was loaded with talent, and Richard, who had a big-time hoops inferiority complex, doubted he would fit in.
"I had no confidence at all," he said Wednesday.
All that began to change during an open gym the summer before Richard's sophomore season when he simply dunked a basketball. He had done it before, but not in front of teammates, and he suddenly became the object of increased affection when it came to choosing sides for pickup games.
"I thought, 'Maybe I am getting kind of decent,'" he said. "That's when my self-esteem got a little higher.
"I got serious about basketball. It's when I really wanted to play all the time."
read the entire article
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-temkin16dec16,1,244855.story?ctrack=2&cset=true
