Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

DevILLDawg · Apr 30, 2025

Indy Illini Fan said:
Preston Murphy, Assistant Coach (BK), Alabama Crimson Tide

Preston Murphy is the Assistant Coach for the Alabama Crimson Tide

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Joel Justus, Associate Head Coach (BK), Ohio State Buckeyes

Joel Justus is the Associate Head Coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes

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Ben Johnson, (),

Ben Johnson is currently not coaching

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Mike Boynton Jr., (),

Mike Boynton Jr. is currently not coaching

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I'll ask...are these the Indy-Approved Dawgs, the current assistant coaching candidates, or a mixture of both?

If @soupy17 wants to make a coaching candidate spreadsheet for Illinois or college basketball in general..I'd personally love it but of course; jobs, families and stuff.

RJK01 · Apr 30, 2025

Indy, why is Boynton unemployed? Did he quit because he's looking for a higher paying job or does he have a commitment from a former boss? Or did he not like working for May?

Fly Illini Fly! · Apr 30, 2025

Indy Illini Fan said:
Preston Murphy, Assistant Coach (BK), Alabama Crimson Tide

Preston Murphy is the Assistant Coach for the Alabama Crimson Tide

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Joel Justus, Associate Head Coach (BK), Ohio State Buckeyes

Joel Justus is the Associate Head Coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes

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Ben Johnson, (),

Ben Johnson is currently not coaching

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Mike Boynton Jr., (),

Mike Boynton Jr. is currently not coaching

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DevILLDawg · Apr 30, 2025

IllinoisssssssVarsity said:
In theory, our defensive philosophy is analytically solid.

1. Take away 3s
2. Minimal help to avoid getting caught in rotations that allow 3s
3. Drop and go over ball screens take away the 3 and protect the basket, encouraging the midrange, which, analytically is the best shot you can force defensively.
4. When necessary, help/double off the non shooters from anywhere.

When you play drop, you make basketball 2 on 2. Pick and roll guys and their defenders. You don’t have to tag off corners and risk kick outs to open shooters because you never leave them.

The problem is, you usually play drop because your guys can’t guard any other way. Love T, but he is a cone on defense. If drop gets killed with him on D, there is no adjustment because he’s too slow to recover. His brother is little quicker so that helps. Mirk is slow.

It’s very clear we recruit to our offensive philosophy and try to make it work defensively. But with the guys we recruited, idk what adjustments look like other than zone, because we are tall, but kinda slow.

The buck stops with Brad, Hamer is the DC, they gotta figure something out when plan A doesn’t work.

I think that the players "revolting" until he utilized hedging in ball screens is one of those obvious...What the heck? Moments
I'd also point out how it's taken 2 years of just getting absolutely pounded by any good big man across the BIG before we decided to throw a curve ball and run a "stab". **cue Willy Buckets Vs. Purdue

My hatred for the purely analytic approach is that it doesn't account for momentum or a dude on a heater. Which is a thing, don't count it out just because your spreadsheet says he shoots 26% from 3.... i.e. setting back and letting Royal, Swain etc. make a windcall at the 3 PT line as if they have 2004 Rick Ankiel type YIPS

IlliniwekKDR · Apr 30, 2025

PepeSilvia said:
Also it would be fun to poach a guy from Michigan.

Coach to be named later in exchange for Morez

Thanos · Apr 30, 2025

The minute Whitman fires Hamer he can no longer hold Underwood accountable for the results. If it works, then Underwood is permanently compromised because all the assistant coaches will be more concerned about what Whitman will do instead of what Brad will do. If it doesn’t work then Brad will just blame Whitman for the failure. That’s not what CEOs do.

Instead, Whitman must provide Underwood with the expectations of success and give both the authority and responsibility needed for Brad to achieve those ends. That way, success or failure is squarely on Brad. That’s what CEO’s do and that’s how Whitman appears to be handling business.