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[QUOTE="FrancoPizza, post: 1614855, member: 5195"]
But that would require coming out of the zone on occasion or as the situation dictates.   JB signed away the rights to any other options, so all we can do is sit and watch the train wreck continue.

Anyway, back on topic, my biggest takeaway with Hop is that he acted more like a custodian or a hands-off babysitter than a head coach on the sidelines.   He was never ripping officials on questionable calls.   His timeouts were never proactive.   To my knowledge, he was never diagramming plays out of timeouts.   It was almost as if he was overly conservative not to do anything off-script.   Unfortunately, the players pick up on that and in turn are less likely to be locked in to any wrinkles or directions that he does give out (e.g. fouling under 8 seconds).   In fact, I hope that's what happened because it would mean we haven't seen the real Hopkins yet.

His 1 loss was to a crappy Wisconsin team at home, which played out much like the other losses to bad teams.   Also please note that they had to come from behind to beat Lehigh and St. Bonaventure.  The writing was on the wall.   Speculation is pointless and there is enough evidence to suggest JB could easily have the same record in this 9 game stretch, save for maybe winning 1 more game.
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