Coach Search Options after Autry

[EnviroSciGuy]

Do you ever watch UConn?
Their offense looks distinctly different to me.

USF, not so much. Lob feeds to athletic bigs. Not a ton of backcuts, screens.
Lots of motion at the top, but with guys who can actually make threes.

Our defense looked pretty good pre-season, playing against teams like Memphis.
They aren't especially big inside. They have a couple very good players.
We thought we had a couple, too.

My wife, who knows nothing about basketball, sometimes looks up from her reading to ask me why the SU players are standing still while one guy runs around dribbling.

If you think that looks like USF... honestly I don't know how to respond other than to wonder if you're only getting audio of games.

 

[007]

teams like Memphis.
They aren't especially big inside. They have a couple very good players.
We thought we had a couple, too.

They have 2 guys that 7-1 that play

 

[Col. Bleep]

23/25 from the line. Lol

Tops in the country

 

[phil77]

favored by 8 won by 21

 

[EnviroSciGuy]

I can't believe Hardaway has been at Memphis for eight years. Lots of hype, but it doesn't seem like he ever actually does anything with it in the postseason.

 

[qdawgg]

23/25 from the line. Lol

Alright, that’s not going to work here. Who else is available.

 

[Cusefan0307]

favored by 8 won by 21

And they shot it terribly. Made up for it with 22 offensive rebounds. Rebounding is something Hodgson really emphasizes. Foreign territory to us.

 

[Jasoncuse]

Brown
Enis
Kingz
Athletic 4
Athletic 5

Fennell
Shooter
Shooter
Athletic backup big

That team is small, would need a lot more size to be a consistent threat in the ACC.
Brown is solid but can’t shoot. Under 40% from the field and only a handful of 3’s made all year. Enis is 6’2”, and while he’s a good outside shooter, he also struggles overall from the field.

Enis has come off the bench a few times this year and that would be an ideal role here if Kings were back. Kingz as the starting SG would be a lot better, I think.

 

[Cusefan0307]

That team is small, would need a lot more size to be a consistent threat in the ACC.
Brown is solid but can’t shoot. Under 40% from the field and only a handful of 3’s made all year. Enis is 6’2”, and while he’s a good outside shooter, he also struggles overall from the field.

Enis has come off the bench a few times this year and that would be an ideal role here if Kings were back. Kingz as the starting SG would be a lot better, I think.

Enis shoots 10 3’s a game! In all seriousness I’d like a better shooting lead guard thank Brown, but regarding Enis shooting 10 3’s a game I wouldn’t expect him to shoot much better than 40%. He still has a total shot percentage of 54%. Our shooting guard is at 48%.

 

[phil77]

Wish Nelson had another year left he would be a great package with Hodgson

 

[phil77]

Enis I think can play P4
Brown I am iffy about I see flashes but not sure. Could be a good bridge to help the install culture and system but not sure he can hang P4 it is close.

 

[RF2044]

Enis I think can play P4
Brown I am iffy about I see flashes but not sure could be a good bridge to help the install culture and system but not sure he can hang P4 it is close.

You can never have enough guys who can play.

Not everyone starts.

 

[Franz69]

 

[Sherman20]

I'll check them out, thanks.
I do have to say, since Hurley hired that assistant 3 years ago, their offense is freaking awesome.
Reminds me of UCLA under Wooden, Pete Carrill with the back door cuts at Princeton, or even UNC under Dean Smith when they had Phil Ford. Wow, that was an offense!

Are you talking about Luke Murray? Who’s been discussed here at length? He was hired back in 2021, so five years ago. But he had been on Hurley’s staffs at Wagner and Rhode Island before that.
Choice quote from The Athletic article below:
“Dan Hurley has long had a reputation for coaching tough teams who play hard. But an offensive savant? Typically his defenses were always better than his offenses. Not until his 11th season as a college head coach did Hurley have a top-50 offense. And last season, when the Huskies finished third, was Hurley’s first time with a top-20 offense. This year’s Huskies enter Monday night’s national championship game against Purdue as the most efficient offense in college basketball. It feels like he’s on the verge of a dynasty.”

How UConn built the ‘most complex’ — and efficient —offense in college basketball

Dan Hurley and assistant coach Luke Murray devised an offense heavy on off-ball screening and cuts, and it may lead to back-to-back titles.

www.nytimes.com

 

[NineOneSeven]

Do you ever watch UConn?
Their offense looks distinctly different to me.

USF, not so much. Lob feeds to athletic bigs. Not a ton of backcuts, screens.
Lots of motion at the top, but with guys who can actually make threes.

Our defense looked pretty good pre-season, playing against teams like Memphis.
They aren't especially big inside. They have a couple very good players.
We thought we had a couple, too.

You’ve had some pretty, I’ll say, interesting… yes interesting… posts this week.

 

[GoCuse14]

Some people need to chillax. It's almost over. Have a drink...sit back...focus on a hobby...See what happens in March.

To make matters worse than our hoops play currently, I am working in Saudi Arabia for the next 3 months, so I cannot even drink or smoke away these sorrows. Forced sobriety is for the birds

 

[FireballPhil]

Northern Iowa Panthers!

Where two of my kids went to school.

 

[Newhouser]

Only a one game sample but they would drub us. They would get so many open looks against our "D" that it would be a 3 point barrage. That said Memphis I guess is pretty good defensively but they didn't look engaged, and clearly lost interest in that first half run. That happens when deep 3s are going in.

 

[richard levy]

Meet the Mid-Major Power Paying Men’s College Basketball’s New Transfer Portal Tax

Belmont built a winner on coaching stability and player development. In the NIL era, that success has made it a prime transfer target every spring.

www.si.com

"Belmont’s offense dating back to the Byrd years is as unstructured as any in college basketball; Alexander calls it “barely more than a pickup game.” What is taught is how to play the game the right way. To play basketball at Belmont is to get a Ph.D. in the game, becoming elite at cutting, screening and moving without the ball. Players are given immense freedom as long as they do those things well, and learning each other’s tendencies can take time."

“We’re so unpatterned,” Alexander says. “You’re not going to watch us play and figure out what we’re doing because we don’t know what we’re doing. We just know that when we screen, here are the things we can do. And we know that you’re a better screener and I’m a better shooter and he’s a better cutter, and I’m good off the dribble but you don’t need to dribble. We just try to play to personal strengths.”

"The result is one of the nation’s sharpest offenses, ranking in the top five nationally in effective field goal percentage and producing quality shot after quality shot."

 

[5OutFred]

It's an open secret at this point. Get either of the two and we're back. Make it happen.

 

[cusefan88]

It's an open secret at this point. Get either of the two and we're back. Make it happen.

Doesn't take much to connect the dots. The back channels are open and this is the message on the radio.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

It's an open secret at this point. Get either of the two and we're back. Make it happen.

Just about everyone is lobbying for one of those two. And for very good reason. Hopefully the BOT recognizes this is a slam dunk and it's almost impossible to fork up.

 

[5OutFred]

Just about everyone is lobbying for one of those two. And for very good reason. Hopefully the BOT recognizes this is a slam dunk and it's almost impossible to fork up.

Yep - it's a massive advantage that Hodgson has wanted the job for years. Other programs in need of a coach are waking up to the fact that he's a coach in demand. Don't overthink it, put pen to paper.

 

[RedtheGOB]

I know people are getting excited about certain players in the moment and what could be if such and such midmajor coach brings them up to the dome next year, but they need to throw that out of their heads right now.

#1 We need a massive coaching upgrade which is coming. BUT #2 We also need a talent upgrade in the form of consistency and experience.

New coaches that are competing at the top are not pulling multiple players up from midmajors and putting them in a starting rotation especially not unproven, younger guys. Qadir and a few other are the exception, but considering he had also already played 50+ games in 2 years of ACC hoops that feels like a better template than bringing up a Freshman or Soph into the ACC.

For sure if you want to keep older, stronger guys that are in their 4th or 5th year as bench piece get them, but bringing younger guys up a level then throwing them into the rotation is not how we're winning next year immediately.

The fanbase and especially you guys here will eat our new Guards alive if they show up looking like Carlos or cracking under the pressure like George and JJ have been known to do and then we're told to give it time for them to adjust.

Also sidenote the new coach better be looking at these 28 year old Euro players that we can bring over for the front court because that is starting to feel like a must have.

It's a full rebuild fellas, not buying a midmajor coach and half their team then dropping them into the ACC.

 

[oldpinepoint]

It's an open secret at this point. Get either of the two and we're back. Make it happen.

I would be disappointed if it’s anyone other than one of these guys