Pearl Wants to Press Next Year...

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I'm sure the key to success this season will be the addition of Houston Fancher to the staff.....Must be pretty tough to go from being a DI Head Coach to a graduate manager.
 
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hatvol96 said:
How much success did Tom Davis sustain with that system in a major conference?
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Hat, I think we have debated this repeatedly. We just share two different views. I believe Pearl can win with this system much easier than he can win when he slows things down and tries to hammer it out in the half court with people.
 
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kiffinator13 said:
Hat, I think we have debated this repeatedly. We just share two different views. I believe Pearl can win with this system much easier than he can win when he slows things down and tries to hammer it out in the half court with people.
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That only takes you so far. When facing quality competition, it will bite you as often as not. If you are fine with reducing every match up of an equal or greater talented team to a 50/50 at best struggle, fine. But 50/50 odds won't advance you very far in a tournament. And it won't even be 50/50 against some teams.
 
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In the past 20 years, Pitino has won with a pressing system. Arkansas won with it also. As has Maryland (who also runs the Tom Davis system).
 
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Shadowboxer said:
In the past 20 years, Pitino has won with a pressing system. Arkansas won with it also. As has Maryland (who also runs the Tom Davis system).
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Everyone mentioned here transitioned away from their press in winning the big one.
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Pearl was able to post great winning seasons using the press with a lot less tallent than his has now. I say let him do the coaching and us do the cheering!
 
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I for one am hoping the press returns, but for different reasons than I think it will bring great success. (Which it might, or might not.)

Pearl's team last year was something dreadful to watch. For an example, watch the last 30 seconds to minute of the SEC Championship game against State.

I'm hoping the press returns just simply because it is a tad more exciting to watch. Many times last year, I wanted to splash Clorox in my eyes after watching some games. (See Gonzaga (both), Memphis and the regular season Bammer game to name a few)
 
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Shadowboxer said:
In the past 20 years, Pitino has won with a pressing system. Arkansas won with it also. As has Maryland (who also runs the Tom Davis system).
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This has been discussed endlessly in another thread. A quick summary: you're mistaken. They didn't run much press the seasons of their actual championship runs. Feel free to find the full novel, or just catch the next chapter.
 
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Better start pressing again. That halfcourt if painful to watch-----pass it around the perimeter till the clock hits 2 and shoot a three. No pic and rolls--no back door cuts, Pearl needs to get Knight to show him how to run an offense. Thing about the press is--if they break it---LAYUP!:cray:
 
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Actually Maryland pressed and played up-tempo for every single game basically except for the championship game (which was a grind it out game against Michigan State).
 
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Shadowboxer said:
Actually Maryland pressed and played up-tempo for every single game basically except for the championship game (which was a grind it out game against Michigan State).
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No they didn't. They also didn't play Michigan State in the final.
 
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Shadowboxer said:
Ahh you are correct. Was it Final Four then?
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No, that was one of the few years in that stretch when Michigan State didn't make it. Pretty sure the Final Four that year was Oklahoma, Indiana, Kansas, and Maryland.
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hatvol96 said:
No, that was one of the few years in that stretch when Michigan State didn't make it. Pretty sure the Final Four that year was Oklahoma, Indiana, Kansas, and Maryland.
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Maryland 97
Kansas 88


Indiana 73
Okalahoma 64


championship game
Maryland 64
Indiana 52
 
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doozer said:
i still can't believe that Indiana team made it to the final.
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Drawing Kent State in the regional final didn't hurt. Neither did the fact Oklahoma couldn't hit the side of the Georgia Dome on Saturday afternoon.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Drawing Kent State in the regional final didn't hurt. Neither did the fact Oklahoma couldn't hit the side of the Georgia Dome on Saturday afternoon.
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That reminds me of the run through a broken bracket that UF made in 2006. They faced these seeds: 14, 11, 7, 5, 11, 2.

I'd love to see it break like that for us some day. It seems like we always get a tough draw in a bracket that holds up though.
 
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