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- Thread starter RolloTomassi0309
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Really simple . . . . A bad coach producing bad results with great talent. I've see this movie before.
Have any of you seen a Montessori school? Well we have Montessori basketball apparently. Our offense consists of some kind of read and react method that turns into 100 pick n rolls followed by a missed 3 point attempt. Can we please go to something with some hard and fast rules that have to be followed. Too much to ask?
I definitely was. Who knew that he would completely abandon what had made him successful at VCU for this inept half-court trash we run on offense? We thought we were hiring someone else.
The offense could actually work fine if (1) we were anything close to fundamentally sound and (2) we recruited the appropriate talent for it.
When most of the players set lazy screens, players don't cut hard off the screens, players more or less ignore the "roll" component of the pick-and-roll, and so forth, and when the head coach is still recruiting talent for the "Havoc" system he no longer runs, the offense is bound to look and work like sh*t.
I cannot comprehend why a successful coach would abandon what made him successful. I'd hope he was getting better talent here than what he was getting at VCU. Is the competition harder? More than likely.
He was in a conference where he had the elite athletes and could run a pressing system every game and very few could keep up for a full game. They got on a roll in the tournament. In the Big 12 everyone has good players with different systems and very good coaches which requires adjustments from game to game and it seems he struggles with this.
Bob Huggins has always run full court pressure stuff. Seems to do pretty good with it. Pitnio ran that funky run an jump zone press at Kentucky. He didn't use it as much in the full and 3/4 court at Louisville but they ran it a ton in the half court.
I see the problem this way. FG%.
Coleman - 38
Davis - 39
Young - 39
Febres - 31
Osetkowski - 40
Same offense
Roach - 45
Andrew Jones - 53
Texas only has one perimeter player who is pretty good at shooting.
Coleman - 38
Davis - 39
Young - 39
Febres - 31
Osetkowski - 40
Same offense
Roach - 45
Andrew Jones - 53
Texas only has one perimeter player who is pretty good at shooting.
So guys we're gonna beat a 13-17 team by a few points. Should be by 30. Coaching? Scheme? All the above.
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