I gotta say, after seeing that photo and the score of their recent loss, I'm intrigued and will be following Oak Hills Christian College!
Tough day for EIU hoops hopes
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That’s the most disgusting basketball analogy of all time and description is perfect of that entire conference
I believe this was the famous “That’s enough, Margaret” game.
A friend of mine was reffing and kicked Margaret out of an AAU game when Patrick was playing early in his high school career. Said she was nasty.
Speaking of intelligent announcers...with 6 minutes left in the Iowa women's game yesterday, a direct quote... "Clark is getting close to that triple double. She's already got the points, and she's only 1 rebound and 7 assists away." Needless to say, she did not get that triple double.
It can be a fun style to watch but man you're really counting on offense firing on all cylinders every night. Look at Hoiball. Largely a success....very exciting games but the nights we couldn't shoot or finish at the rim were a disaster.
When you have a so many NBA guys on your roster that some of them are coming off the bench, you can afford to try the "let's just maximize possessions and outscore everyone" strategy, but when your best player is a tossup between Ben Krikke, Owen Freeman, and Payton Sandfart, it's rolling the dice a bit.
I like Freeman though, he's a good frosh and I think he'll be a good player.
I like Freeman though, he's a good frosh and I think he'll be a good player.
Something I love about TJ is beyond a general emphasize on playing aggressive D, he doesn't seem to have a "system" that he's dead-set on running, he adapts what we're doing to the players that he has. Counter-examples are Fran or Jim Boeheim.
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I meant in general when you rely on offense it can burn you. The problem for Iowa is they typically don't have the athletic studs that Fred had.
That is exactly the definition of the difference between a coach having a ceiling of "being good" vs a coach without a ceiling. It doesn't matter the sport, but to be truly successful and have sustained success, you have to adapt to what you have. Of course you try to find the pieces that fit into what you want, but ultimately it's what you get that you have to work with.
Fran has a low ceiling because he doesn't adapt. It's offense or die. That can only get you so far. It's the exact same thing with Kirk, he doesn't adapt and it's defense or die. One could argue that prior to this season, CMC was more in that boat, but we've seen him starting to open up and evolve.
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My big worry when TJ was hired was I thought of him as one of "Fred's guys", Fred was successful because he was able to recruit NBA talent to run an NBA offense, and I worried TJ would try to run Fred's system without Fred's players and it would be a disaster. But his approach and success in 2021-2022 with such a limited roster (one bucket-getter in Brockington and not much else offensively, bunch of good athletes who couldn't score much but could play great D, run this defense that most teams will be unfamiliar with) quickly proved me wrong there.