Coach Jimmy Miyasaka, former shooting guard at Cal Poly Pomona and All-State guard (Kaimuki), is back home from optometry school for Christmas break. Some of you guys remember him from those really good, sound fundamentals workouts during the summer. He is simply one of the best pure shooters — if not THE best — I've seen in the past three decades of local high school basketball, but even better, he is the best at teaching the nuances and fundamentals of shooting successfully.
Coach Jimmy will be at Kilauea Gym on Sunday (tomorrow) from 1-3 p.m., so I encourage everyone to come down and get some 1-on-1 work with him. I'll be there and I'm bringing the video camera to document his work and teaching.
Feel free to come down and bring your friends, too. It's free of charge, but the teaching is worth so much more than you will get from a typical clinic that costs a lot of bucks. Coach Jimmy is the real deal.
Take advantage of this great opportunity, Thunder!
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Wherefore do the Thunder roam?
OK, just trying to keep up, keep track of where everybody is at and what they're doing.
• Kerl and Karl. They're playing varsity soccer at McKinley and having fun. They were too old to play in our 15U league at McKinley (CAL), but they might not be done with basketball just yet. (More later.)
• Keanu. He's playing ball at Kailua and doing great. People seem to be confused about him, saying in online forums that he's great on defense, that his offense is so-so. Really? Our Keanu? Anyway, I saw him play against No. 1-ranked Kamehameha and he did SOLID against that relentless fullcourt press. At last check, he scored 14 points tonight against Castle. Not bad for a freshman!
• Colby, Mike and Shiraz are playing JV ball at Kalani. I haven't seen them play yet, but I hope to soon, work schedule pending.
• Tai. He's playing JV ball at Saint Louis, last I heard from one of his coaches.
• Josh. He tried out at Kamehameha and barely missed making the JV Blue team (sophomores). He practices with them every day, though, and is a team manager. Though he missed 2 years of playing, he's done a lot of catching up in the past 18 months. Any team can use a defensive-minded guy who can shoot the 3.
• Kevin. As of this winter, he is unofficially retired from basketball.
• Cody. A mystery. Haven't heard him talk about basketball in a long time, but I'm sure he's reveling in the Lakers dynasty.
• Blake and Randon. I haven't heard from them in ages. Hope to find out soon. I'm guessing they're playing intermediate ball at Punahou.
• Eliet. He's also in eighth grade, so he might be in a league somewhere. I ran into his dad at a Moanalua game. Eliet's sister plays JV ball there. Cool!
• Dru. He didn't play with us in the fall due to football, but I know he wants to play with us in the near future. He isn't playing basketball right now at Kalani because of a back injury, but he's on the paddling team, which is probably great therapy for strengthening the back.
Well, that's everybody, at least everybody who is still in middle school or high school. Here's a head's up: I had a great time hanging out with a couple of old friends who coach on the Big Island. They run the Kona Stingrays basketball club (I lived there in the 1990s) and would love to have us play in their tournaments. They have a 14-under tourney during Spring Break, and then a high-school age tourney in the summer.
I know some of you guys expressed interest in hitting the road to play in tournaments, so these are some opportunities. There will be more. Let me know if you hear of other tournaments and we can start thinking out loud about where we might go in 2011. Woohooooo!!
• Kerl and Karl. They're playing varsity soccer at McKinley and having fun. They were too old to play in our 15U league at McKinley (CAL), but they might not be done with basketball just yet. (More later.)
• Keanu. He's playing ball at Kailua and doing great. People seem to be confused about him, saying in online forums that he's great on defense, that his offense is so-so. Really? Our Keanu? Anyway, I saw him play against No. 1-ranked Kamehameha and he did SOLID against that relentless fullcourt press. At last check, he scored 14 points tonight against Castle. Not bad for a freshman!
• Colby, Mike and Shiraz are playing JV ball at Kalani. I haven't seen them play yet, but I hope to soon, work schedule pending.
• Tai. He's playing JV ball at Saint Louis, last I heard from one of his coaches.
• Josh. He tried out at Kamehameha and barely missed making the JV Blue team (sophomores). He practices with them every day, though, and is a team manager. Though he missed 2 years of playing, he's done a lot of catching up in the past 18 months. Any team can use a defensive-minded guy who can shoot the 3.
• Kevin. As of this winter, he is unofficially retired from basketball.
• Cody. A mystery. Haven't heard him talk about basketball in a long time, but I'm sure he's reveling in the Lakers dynasty.
• Blake and Randon. I haven't heard from them in ages. Hope to find out soon. I'm guessing they're playing intermediate ball at Punahou.
• Eliet. He's also in eighth grade, so he might be in a league somewhere. I ran into his dad at a Moanalua game. Eliet's sister plays JV ball there. Cool!
• Dru. He didn't play with us in the fall due to football, but I know he wants to play with us in the near future. He isn't playing basketball right now at Kalani because of a back injury, but he's on the paddling team, which is probably great therapy for strengthening the back.
Well, that's everybody, at least everybody who is still in middle school or high school. Here's a head's up: I had a great time hanging out with a couple of old friends who coach on the Big Island. They run the Kona Stingrays basketball club (I lived there in the 1990s) and would love to have us play in their tournaments. They have a 14-under tourney during Spring Break, and then a high-school age tourney in the summer.
I know some of you guys expressed interest in hitting the road to play in tournaments, so these are some opportunities. There will be more. Let me know if you hear of other tournaments and we can start thinking out loud about where we might go in 2011. Woohooooo!!
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