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Wilton cannot prepare a team for the season. May be I’m wrong with this one but
I do think I have a pretty good idea of what should be done during off-season. The coaches should develop an idea of what each player can contribute to the team and what the best system might be. Players should work on developing their skills and the coaches should help them. Later everything should be put together and more and more team drills of various kinds should prepare the team for the season. What happened last fall was that we started scrimmaging in the first (!) week of practice.
There is nothing bad about scrimmaging but we would be doing the exact same drill until the end of fall camp. The same thing every day. How
was that supposed to make us better? How was that supposed to keep us motivated?


Wilton cannot deal with problems during the season. During this season as well as
during last year the same thing happened during the first part of the season: we would play with different line-ups almost every week. We wouldn’t change anything in practice but we wçuld change the line-up. Over and over again. Few players were ever given the chance to settle in on one position. Everybody was uncertain about his position in the team. Players would be in the starting line-up one week and not even allowed to practice with the second team the next Week. No one could comprehend it and the coaches wouldn’t explain.


Wilton coaches badly during a match. Have you ever watched Wilton during a
time-out? Often he doesn’t know what to say, especially in important situations.
Usually the coaches don’t know in which rotation the team is. Substitutions often seem to be arbitrary. When we were down, Wilton’s approach of coaching was to call us “chickens” and that we should start playing “like men”. Even during the match against UCLA in the MPSF play-offs, which we won 3:1, he would do that.
Sometimes he would refuse to talk at all during a time-out. Tactical advice? Rarely.

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