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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2976533, member: 40"] I see -- so , I suggest that if we turned this group over to a new point guard we'd get better results and you argue with that, but then suggest that if you turned the group over to a new coach that it would be better? I think that in the rush to absolve Frank's abysmal play, people aren't seeing the forest through the trees. I also don't think that there is one silver bullet root cause -- it isn't all about Frank, but that was a major factor. Mike, the same thing I said to trueblue applies to this line of thinking. Chicken vs. egg on the strategy. The strategy sucks, but is necessary because the team lacked a point guard. We SHOULD have had one, but we didn't, which necessitated the strategy. You single out Ennis -- the truth about Ennis is that his preternatural skill was avoiding mistakes. Loved the kid when he was here, but his tenure marked the beginning of the transformation from what we had before offensively into the current approach because he didn't take chances and was risk avoidant. He also quarterbacked a team that lacked virtually any scoring pop, compared to the previous team that had an embarrassment of riches. We had Fair, we had Ennis himself, and we had inconsistent Gbinije and Cooney. So we slowed it down and played iso. Also, I don't understand why everybody compares our personnel this year to last year's team. We had two key additions -- both of whom could really shoot the ball; it WASN'T the same group of players as the previous year. Incumbents Battle and Brissett can score. What they lacked was a guy who could take disparate parts and make the island of mismatched toys into something a little more effective than the individual parts. Instead of Ennis, put someone who played a bit riskier like Scoop, or even Griffin, or MCW at the helm -- do you honestly not think that they would have fielded a more cohesive offensive unit? [/QUOTE]

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