The Part This Season Should Play in the Pearl Situation

#152
#152
pl3 said:
So you think the odds of a coach coming in and making 5 straight sweet 16 appearances are equal to a coach coming in and not making 5 straight? I believe you'd be wrong.
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I must have missed Pearl's 5 straight Sweet 16's.
 
#153
#153
pl3 said:
So you think the odds of a coach coming in and making 5 straight sweet 16 appearances are equal to a coach coming in and not making 5 straight? I believe you'd be wrong.
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When did you mention odds?
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#154
#154
LawVol13 said:
I see great athletes with potential to be excellent basketball players. I see no player development, however. I also see no offensive system that allows anyone to progress. If that's improved, you'll see our players improve.
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But where are the ball handlers, the shooters, the actual basketball skills? Agreed that there's no development and no system, but other than Tobias Harris everybody Pearl has brought in just seems incredibly raw. I guess Pearl's philosophy is to bring in athletic guys under the belief that he can refine their skills once he gets them on campus, but if so then it's flat-out not working.
 
#156
#156
Vercingetorix said:
But where are the ball handlers, the shooters, the actual basketball skills? Agreed that there's no development and no system, but other than Tobias Harris everybody Pearl has brought in just seems incredibly raw. I guess Pearl's philosophy is to bring in athletic guys under the belief that he can refine their skills once he gets them on campus, but if so then it's flat-out not working.
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I agree. What is the point of having guys who can drive to the basket and draw a double team when you don't have a guy on the perimeter who they can kick it out to who can shoot?
 
#157
#157
Vercingetorix said:
But where are the ball handlers, the shooters, the actual basketball skills? Agreed that there's no development and no system, but other than Tobias Harris everybody Pearl has brought in just seems incredibly raw. I guess Pearl's philosophy is to bring in athletic guys under the belief that he can refine their skills once he gets them on campus, but if so then it's flat-out not working.
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He has been pathetic at recruiting point guards. I readily agree with that. But, I think our lack of structure offensively just doesn't utilize the skill that our players do have.
 
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#159
BigPapaVol said:
When did you mention odds?
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You mentioned it was equally ignorant to assume a coach can or can't continue the tourney appearances/wins. If you could guarantee the same amt, or more, tourney wins over the next 5 yrs as the last 5, I'm fine with moving on.
Hey, were you on 3 hr lunch in nashville today? Guy named bigpoppavol called in.
 
#160
#160
Vercingetorix said:
I see a whole lot of athletes and very few basketball players. Pearl recruits as though he were going to field a decathlon team instead of a basketball team.
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Dribbling the ball off their feet and bombing on 3-on-1 breaks is a dead give away.
 
#161
#161
pl3 said:
You mentioned it was equally ignorant to assume a coach can or can't continue the tourney appearances/wins. If you could guarantee the same amt, or more, tourney wins over the next 5 yrs as the last 5, I'm fine with moving on.
Hey, were you on 3 hr lunch in nashville today? Guy named bigpoppavol called in.
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My comment wasn't guaranteeing anything either way. Yours implied that assuming I one direction was the lone way to be ignorant, which was incorrect.

No, I don't listen to Nashville radio.
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#162
#162
LawVol13 said:
He has been pathetic at recruiting point guards. I readily agree with that. But, I think our lack of structure offensively just doesn't utilize the skill that our players do have.
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I'm not sure what kind of offensive structure you could design that would work around a roster that has no point guards, no shooters, and no skilled post players.
 
#163
#163
Vercingetorix said:
I'm not sure what kind of offensive structure you could design that would work around a roster that has no point guards, no shooters, and no skilled post players.
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They could screen and learn to use them. The lackadaisical way we slough through our offense is absolutely disgusting.
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#164
#164
Vercingetorix said:
I'm not sure what kind of offensive structure you could design that would work around a roster that has no point guards, no shooters, and no skilled post players.
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If this team ran a disciplined motion offense that utilized screens, that required our players to cut hard, and that made the defense actually defend for more than 5 seconds per possession, we'd be infinitely more successful, imo.
 
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#165
UT IE 95 said:
Hmmm. Interesting. The OP takes pleasure using his catch phrase of calling people idiots and being clueless. Now he starts a thread calling people out for changing positions on Pearl, while saying he should be relieved of his duties.

Here's his first post from a thread he started a few days ago:

"I've long maintained that if Pearl could get less than 1 year suspension then I wouldn't argue with retaining him."

Nice thread calling out yourself.
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good post
 
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