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Message: [QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 5734949, member: 237"] Based on what? Where are you getting this information from? Also Red’s half court sets came from the last 5-6 years of the JB era but prior to that we ran a lot more motion year in year out. Comments like this are taking a lot of liberty professing such things as fact without evidence coming from the same crowd yelling about anything that could be a positive and considered progress under this new staff. If you watch replays from prior to 2016-17 vs after you will see some significant differences. Cooney was probably the last player of his type where we ran certain sets that are much closer to what you see today. Perfect example is look at the off ball movement UConn runs. They actually don’t use a ton of different sets but guys cut and come off screens similar to what you see with option routes in football as they read the defense to maximize finding space. That’s absolutely things we saw with the personnel we had in the past albeit not the 3 ball or rim runs with little mid range that the analytics driven offenses are keen on today. I think everyone needs to let this play out. Nobody knows anything about what playbook will look like on offense yet be it good or bad nor does anyone have a clue how Moesch is going to fair at this level. Let me add some figures because while the sets we ran were better in the past the lack of defense and athleticism in favor of just shooting glazed over the fact we had some efficient offenses recently but too focused on shooting and unbalanced. Our Kpom adjO rank before Red: 2023-81 2022-15 2021-24 2020-21 2019-59 2018-135 2017-30 2016-50 2015-117 2014-28 2013-26 I could go on- we’ve not been unable to run efficient offenses under JB we’ve struggled to have balance on both sides of the ball. That’s the key. The numbers do not support the expectation that GMacs experience here would mean poor offensive efficiency without evidence of seeing how he plays with a deeper P4 level roster [/QUOTE]

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