Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

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Illinifan11
If I remember right Indy Illini Fan was saying we would get a great assistant for next year. Is that still happening?
 
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Illini IndyCar Fan
TheodoreRex said:
I briefly watched the video-specifically their AD introduce their new coach.. I couldn't help walking away thinking- man did we hit the jackpot with Whitman. He runs circles around almost every other AD with his communication skills.
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Her Chief of Staff and PR director must have had heart attacks at the start when she lost the paper with her script.
 
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New Creation
mhuml32 said:
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the national
blackdog said:
This is going to sound inflammatory but people complaining about the offense clearly don't actually watch what is happening during plays and only focus on the ball. If you need someone to make a video breaking down a play for you to understand it that probably means you don't really understand what you are looking at.

Illinois got a TON of good shots during games, both at the rim and for 3s. They just missed the 3s. That and turning the ball over on routine plays are the only things that held the offense back. I would be curious to see some stats/charts but yhe shot profile of the team changed a lot as the year went on. Early on the 3s they were taking were sometimes just a simple swing pass with the defender right there and as the year went on we saw a lot more kick outs for open looks. Really overall the offense got more complex as the season progressed which makes sense considering you can't do much with a brand new team right away while they still learn the basics. One of the other major ways that not having returners hurts.
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100% this, all day, every day.
 
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ChiIllini75 said:
I feel like I'm spying on the early meetings Billy Beane had with A's scouts. One side with empirical evidence, and the other that says the numbers lie because my eyes say so.

If the standard you are looking for is an offense that runs smoothly for 40 minutes each game, I'm afraid you will never be satisfied. The fact we had, by relatively reliable metrics, a top 20 offense 2 straight years with very different approaches and the takeaway is fire the OC is mid-boggling.
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But his girlfriend is a 6, at best.
 
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PepeSilvia
With Pitino going to Xavier, I'll be a little honest that I hoped it would be Luke Murray.

Murray is supposedly the architect of that UConn offense and if true that would make him one of the best offensive coaches on the planet. He's also just got a pretty interesting coaching history.

Started working at Quinnipiac with long time Jim Calhoun assistant Tom Moore, then as a grad assistant under Miller at Arizona. Jumped to working for Hurley at Wagner, spent some time with Skerry at Towson(Skerry is a pretty solid mid major coach in his own right just can't get over the hump and win their conference tourney) before jumping back to Hurley at Rhode Island. Then spent several years with Chris Mack at Xavier and Louisville and never tried to blackmail him.

That's a lot of experience working with a lot of very good basketball coaches including the best coach in the sport.

Just saying that Brad is 61 and Murray could be a very trendy and up coming coach, potentially being a guy in the conversation to succeed him if Brad were to retire in 5-6 years(though I know some coaches try to keep going into their 70s).
 
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OrangeBlue98
The carousel just got moving too fast for me to keep up with a conflict last night. Are Villanova and NC State the highest profile “officially open” positions at the present time (7:30 AM 3/26)?
 
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OrangeBlue98
Illini IndyCar Fan said:
I get what you're saying, but we just need a zone that works. A quick zone shift can really mess with their flow when our man-to-man isn't so lock-down (and our opponents tend to have a lot of scoring runs). IMO, a bit of zone practice would be a better use of our time than the incremental benefit of using the same small amount of time refining our man-to-man.

A serviceable box and one would be great to run every so often to shut down the player who's having a career night against us, for instance.
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We might as well make a box and one our default defense, because it seemed like someone had a career game against us every game. (OK, more than a little sarcasm there)

Back to being serious-I generally believe that it’s better to be great at one thing than just good or medicore at several things. But offense today is so good that I do think you need a few wrinkles to keep good coaches from scouting you well. I don’t care how great you are at doing something. If you do the same thing all the time, eventually a good coach will exploit it.
 
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