This is the best post of the season!
This is way fans are easily disappointed
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Where is the offense? We don’t run the offense that was so successful last year! This team needs some offensive structure, there is too much 1-on-1 with the other 4 guys standing around watching and we don’t have anyone who is great with the ball in his hands to beat his man. Successful offenses have both ball and player movement. We have little of either thus far and will not be successful offensively until we incorporate these concepts.
I think his weakness is he does not relate to today's kids. I have never heard him complete a sentence without using hyperboles. To be honest, he is a strange cat for a basketball coach.
Agree with both shot discipline and hero ball.
I don’t believe in the goal of taking (30+ 3’s) a game. You take what the defense gives you while running your offense. Our guys seem to think that they must take 3’s and will not be jerked for taking a bad 3. Many of the misses are either guys taking bad shots or the wrong guy taking the shots. Chandler is about the only player that shoots and I believe it is going in.
The “hero ball” is a result of not running an offense. It looks so disorganized on the floor as if they have never practiced together. Then panic sets in as the shot clock runs down resulting in a bad or contested shot.
If these offensive problems are not solved, we will have a big problem come SEC play. As in football, you must have both competent offensive and defensive play. We have neither, although the Indiana game showed a willingness to expend effort defensively. We need to create easy baskets so I advocate full court pressure defense taking advantage of our deep roster. Wear the other team down and get a few turnovers leading to easy baskets.
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Nobody on the team can shoot when we are not playing a JV team. The JVs pay a price when we play them following a beat down by a decent team.
I don't agree with that at all. Seems like a pretty good dude. You think Scott Drew relates to 17 year old inner city kids lol?
No and Scott Drew is also an awkward nerd. Are we looking to hire a coach or a preacher? Good grief
Our best coaches of my lifetime have been Pitino and Calipari. Two of the shadiest coaches you'll ever come across. And IT WAS GREAT. We are the bad guys of college hoops. Idk when we decided we needed a coach who's a "good principled God-fearing man" but it's lame af. Reeks of Barnhart
Yes better than Pope. I think Pope is one of the most awkward dudes in basketball. A great guy and I would love for him to mentor my son as a person, but if i wanted someone to teach him basketball, Pope is definitely not someone i would call. The top recruits want a basketball coach, not a statistics professor.
Scott Drew and Baylor had a nice run, but now it is Kelvin Sampson in that area.
We don't run last year's offense because there's no Amari Williams on this team .. even Amari wasn't perfect because his shot from 3 was just average at best .. but you had to guard him .. and he was a great passer and he could drive in his man. And he had multiple reliable shooters to pass to. This team doesn't fit Pope's offense and that's his fault. Now was there someone available to be that guy at the top of the key? Maybe not. The real question is how flexible is MP. He's going to have to grow as a coach especially in recruiting guys that fits what he wants to do. Player evaluation is at a premium .. Does he and his staff have the skills needed for that; or maybe, the better question is will they do the work required to properly evaluate and find the right guys. Time will tell but so far the additions of Lowe, Jelavic and Williams seem to have been misses. I like Johnson, Moreno, and JQ (altho the jury is still out on him). You know MP wants to succeed and he will definitely give it his best shot. Fans can wonder and doubt if he can do it but that has no bearing on it.