Is the best of Bruce yet to come?

#152
#152
Sudeepvol said:
uhh, yes. Are you serious?
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Quite serious... Let's say Pearl will win a NC in five years, but if you fire him now and hire Cal, O'Neil, Donovan, Stallings, or Brady, then we will win one next year.

If you agree to the latter then we are just on completely different wavelengths as Vol fans. Do you even enjoy the games, or do you sit there like a blue-hair, frowning until the game is over with our lead intact?
 
#153
#153
utvolpj said:
you're still here aren't you?
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Yes, I'm here. After a 3 week suspension(for something hatvol does on a daily basis).

Can you just admit that you give preferential treatment to hatvol, lawvol, lofton? I mean, I am a big boy, I can take it.
 
#155
#155
SaintBruce said:
Yes, I'm here. After a 3 week suspension(for something hatvol does on a daily basis).

Can you just admit that you give preferential treatment to hatvol, lawvol, lofton? I mean, I am a big boy, I can take it.
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it is not given but we're not going to discuss it here any more. If you have issues you can PM me or another mod to discuss it.
 
#156
#156
SaintBruce said:
People who value loyalty.
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Interesting. Easy to appear loyal when you make 2.5 Mil but are the only coach in that price range who hasn't made it past the Sweet 16.

I'm sure there are more informed people than me who can tell you about the Pump Brothers trying to get Pearl the Arizona job or putting his name out there for the Memphis job to get a raise from UT.
 
#157
#157
QuickdrawMcVols said:
Quite serious... Let's say Pearl will win a NC in five years, but if you fire him now and hire Cal, O'Neil, Donovan, Stallings, or Brady, then we will win one next year.

If you agree to the latter then we are just on completely different wavelengths as Vol fans. Do you even enjoy the games, or do you sit there like a blue-hair, frowning until the game is over with our lead intact?
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Yes, we are. You're committing to a person, I'm committing to the program. So, yes we certainly are on different "wavelengths".

And for the record, I like Pearl. I'm one of the fans that support him on this forum, but I don't bow down to him and act like he's a top 10 coach.
 
#159
#159
JZVOL said:
One, you said defense is not about X's and O's and just effort. That is 100% false. Effort is important in all facets however to act you simply guard your man and no coaching or strategy is involved is totally false.

Cal's offense is based off Vance Walberg's Attack, attack, skip, attack, attack or Dribble-Drive Motion. It is a 4 out 1 in motion offense that utilizes spacing, the three and the dribble drive.

The hardest thing in basketball is to guard the drive so the offense is designed to put constant pressure on the defense and refs because they are taught, in practice by using Rip Drills and Blood Drills to initiate contact with the defense trying to Rack it (layup), draw a foul, kick it out to the wing or trailing guard for a three or another drive or drop it to the weakside post.

In a true dribble drive mid-range jump shots a no-no because they have the lowest Point Per Possession. This is what the offense uses in many cases to determine what is a good shot for the team or specific player.

The highest PPP is a free-throw @ 1.4, Threes 1.2, layups 1.2 and the midrange is the lowest @ 0.7.

This is why the phrase three or the key is used in terms of what shot this offense wants.

If you would like for me to continue we can get in to the rules of the offense and what to do in the Rack Zone, Drop Zone, Quick Zone, T-Cuts, Gap Cuts, double and triple gaps, what makes a good kick back pass and other things.
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I'm not saying that Cal's type of offense can't work. I'm just saying that with his style of players, it's not a thing of beauty. He doesn't recruit skill players. So all of that dribble-drive offense doesn't matter when, if you kick it out, the guy standing at the 3 point line can't hit the broad side of a barn. It's a helter-skelter offense that can still work with the talent that he recruits though. His players (i.e. Rose, Wall, Cousins, CDR, etc.) are able to adapt and overcome the lack of skill players. A lot of teams run a motion-style offense that involves a dribble-drive component and make it work a lot better (or at least a lot closer to its intended purpose).

If you zone Cal's teams, your chances of beating them improve exponentially.

As for defense, maybe it's not all effort, but it's 90% effort. Man to man is pretty basic. Putting a team into a zone is not rocket science. Teams that are really good at defense and rebounding are good b/c they have higher energy and just try harder... the schemes are pretty basic and generic unless you're running some crazy press or something.
 
#162
#162
SaintBruce said:
Then I hope every coach UT hires from here on out dumps our asses like CLK. Just for you.

Treat others how you wish to be treated, etc etc
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You're the one who hasn't learned any lessons from Kiffin. Do you really think Pearl took the UT job with intent to retire in Knoxville?
 
#168
#168
SaintBruce said:
Then I hope every coach UT hires from here on out dumps our asses like CLK. Just for you.

Treat others how you wish to be treated, etc etc
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You don’t think that if Indiana comes calling with $1M more per year that Pearl wouldn’t leave?
 
#170
#170
SaintBruce said:
Then I hope every coach UT hires from here on out dumps our asses like CLK. Just for you.

Treat others how you wish to be treated, etc etc
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I can't wait til the Pumps finally find someone stupid enough to take them up on their offer when they pimp Pearl's services around. Listening to the sobbing and wailing from the likes of you at the departure of your icon will be music to my ears.
 
#173
#173
VolDad said:
You don’t think that if Indiana comes calling with $1M more per year that Pearl wouldn’t leave?
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If Indiana came calling with some Chuck E. Cheese coupons and a used Trans Am, Pearl would be in Bloomington ASAP.
 
#175
#175
Volfan8282 said:
I'm not saying that Cal's type of offense can't work. I'm just saying that with his style of players, it's not a thing of beauty. He doesn't recruit skill players. So all of that dribble-drive offense doesn't matter when, if you kick it out, the guy standing at the 3 point line can't hit the broad side of a barn. It's a helter-skelter offense that can still work with the talent that he recruits though. His players (i.e. Rose, Wall, Cousins, CDR, etc.) are able to adapt and overcome the lack of skill players. A lot of teams run a motion-style offense that involves a dribble-drive component and make it work a lot better (or at least a lot closer to its intended purpose).

If you zone Cal's teams, your chances of beating them improve exponentially.

As for defense, maybe it's not all effort, but it's 90% effort. Man to man is pretty basic. Putting a team into a zone is not rocket science. Teams that are really good at defense and rebounding are good b/c they have higher energy and just try harder... the schemes are pretty basic and generic unless you're running some crazy press or something.
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I agree and so does Vance Walberg. Walberg always wanted two shooters on the floor at one time. He criticized the fact that Cal doesn't recruit enough shooters to maximize the offense so teams can't zone you as much.

Again effort is big factor of D, but after coaching high school this season I had to coach a lot of defense as far as help side, rotations, chasing the pass not the catch etc.
 
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