Trying to comb through the stats to see what the big difference between us and UF was.
And amazingly, they should have kicked our ***. When a team gets 12 second chance points on you and outscores you by 10 in that category, youd better have some stat to offset it. I searched for that stat and could find only one.
Of the players with the most minutes, the top 2 scorers on their team scored 23 and 19. Our top two scored 17 and 15. That is also a 10 pt deficit. But our NEXT three scored 12,10 and 10. Their next three scored 10,6 and 5.
What it amounts to is that our role players contributed better than theirs.
Sorry, I dont buy it was coaching. Something inside Kodi, Ravern, and Bost just turned on due to the tournament. Jarvis and Barry do this every year.
The reason UF was able to make it close in my opinion is that Phil Turner didnt have a good game. Had he used his 20 minutes to rebound better, or hit a couple shots, or even just to put some added pressure on a ball handler, their runs would have been less.
All in all, I think we are seeing a team, with good enough talent to play in the NCAA's but that isnt coached well enough to eliminate the doubt of reaching the big tournament before the SEC tournament most years.
Can we do better in finding a better coach? I'm not so sure. We would probably trade quality of recruiting forcourt coaching. Stans can recruit, but without the savy to hire a good assistant who can court coach, Stans has defined the 'peter principle'.
And amazingly, they should have kicked our ***. When a team gets 12 second chance points on you and outscores you by 10 in that category, youd better have some stat to offset it. I searched for that stat and could find only one.
Of the players with the most minutes, the top 2 scorers on their team scored 23 and 19. Our top two scored 17 and 15. That is also a 10 pt deficit. But our NEXT three scored 12,10 and 10. Their next three scored 10,6 and 5.
What it amounts to is that our role players contributed better than theirs.
Sorry, I dont buy it was coaching. Something inside Kodi, Ravern, and Bost just turned on due to the tournament. Jarvis and Barry do this every year.
The reason UF was able to make it close in my opinion is that Phil Turner didnt have a good game. Had he used his 20 minutes to rebound better, or hit a couple shots, or even just to put some added pressure on a ball handler, their runs would have been less.
All in all, I think we are seeing a team, with good enough talent to play in the NCAA's but that isnt coached well enough to eliminate the doubt of reaching the big tournament before the SEC tournament most years.
Can we do better in finding a better coach? I'm not so sure. We would probably trade quality of recruiting forcourt coaching. Stans can recruit, but without the savy to hire a good assistant who can court coach, Stans has defined the 'peter principle'.
