Mike Hopkins

[UpstateSM]

Come home when GMac takes Albany/Siena/MAAC job this spring

 

[sweetpea]

Come home when GMac takes Albany/Siena/MAAC job this spring

I guess Gerry would be swinging for the fences with those jobs. Gerry can do what he wants, but the thought he needs grooming to prove he can coach is overdone. I'm sure it would be a pay cut as well.

 

[RyanCuse44]

Come home when GMac takes Albany/Siena/MAAC job this spring

Wishful thinking, but doubt he would do that for an assistant job.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Hop's not coming back. The first losing streak and half this board will be all over JW to have Hop replace Red.

 

[pwong]

 

[IDOC]

As HC? Are you sure about that... if Hope bombs out this year and we bring him back to run the program, I think more than a few fans would lose their collective shite..

So far our present head coach impresses me and others I’m sure. If he needs to find a new home, here would not be a good decision by either party..

 

[Cheriehoop]

Huge ouch.

 

[hoopsupstate]

Washington was 6-24 from three. Hop has never valued shooters. This game is about making shots, especially threes. His teams have been bad shooting teams. SU is in the same boat this year. You can’t win if you can’t shoot. If a recruit can’t shoot, I wouldn’t waste my time recruiting him. The game today is spacing the floor and knocking down shots. Even your bigs need to be able to shoot. At times, SU doesn’t have a single player on the floor who can shoot outside a layup. It’s hard to believe we’ve won as many as we have. Why teams guarding us ever leave the painted area is beyond me. Keep a man close to Bell and let everyone else play outside the lane.

 

[hoopsupstate]

Huge ouch.

Hop could be the next coach at Siena College.

 

[EnviroSciGuy]

Hop could be the next coach at Siena College.

Great area, and better seasons than Seattle! (I'm biased, of course)

 

[PoppyHart]

Hop could be the next coach at Siena College.

That would be a roughly 90% pay cut. But might be the necessary path to stay on the head-coaching train.

 

[CousCuse]

When Frank Kepnang returns, UW will go on a tear.

 

[djcon57]

Washington was 6-24 from three. Hop has never valued shooters. This game is about making shots, especially threes. His teams have been bad shooting teams. SU is in the same boat this year. You can’t win if you can’t shoot. If a recruit can’t shoot, I wouldn’t waste my time recruiting him. The game today is spacing the floor and knocking down shots. Even your bigs need to be able to shoot. At times, SU doesn’t have a single player on the floor who can shoot outside a layup. It’s hard to believe we’ve won as many as we have. Why teams guarding us ever leave the painted area is beyond me. Keep a man close to Bell and let everyone else play outside the lane.

Watching teams like Houston or Baylor as compared to how we shoot. It's like two diff sports.

 

[Fly Rodder]

Watching teams like Houston or Baylor as compared to how we shoot. It's like two diff sports.

Baylor was a fun watch the other night. They move well and have guys who can shoot all over the place. The minimum 3% for any of their guys who has more than 20 3PAs is 37.1%. Bell, our supposed sharp shooter is barely better than that at 38.1%. They have four guys better than that and one is pushing 45%.

Also fun was when they switched from M2M to 2-3 zone to flummox Cincy on a few plays down the stretch. I heard that no one does that.

 

[PoppyHart]

Baylor was a fun watch the other night. They move well and have guys who can shoot all over the place. The minimum 3% for any of their guys who has more than 20 3PAs is 37.1%. Bell, our supposed sharp shooter is barely better than that at 38.1%. They have four guys better than that and one is pushing 45%.

Also fun was when they switched from M2M to 2-3 zone to flummox Cincy on a few plays down the stretch. I heard that no one does that.

The rims are bigger in Texas.

 

[Dave]

Washington was 6-24 from three. Hop has never valued shooters. This game is about making shots, especially threes. His teams have been bad shooting teams. SU is in the same boat this year. You can’t win if you can’t shoot. If a recruit can’t shoot, I wouldn’t waste my time recruiting him. The game today is spacing the floor and knocking down shots. Even your bigs need to be able to shoot. At times, SU doesn’t have a single player on the floor who can shoot outside a layup. It’s hard to believe we’ve won as many as we have. Why teams guarding us ever leave the painted area is beyond me. Keep a man close to Bell and let everyone else play outside the lane.

I don’t really disagree, but, if big John Thompson was around to coach his type of non-shooters, I wonder how they would fare?

 

[Dinkyspond]

Lost today to Stanford, 3-5 in Pac-12, 11-8 overall, not looking good

 

[OrlandoCuse]

Lost today to Stanford, 3-5 in Pac-12, 11-8 overall, not looking good

Let’s face it, he’ll get canned at the end of this year as UW looks to start fresh when they join the Big Ten. I also think Hop sticking to the 2-3 zone is contributing to his downfall. We saw it with JB. 2-3 is a bad base defense for today’s college game.

 

[PoppyHart]

Tough lose tonight in OT in the Apple Cup. But they crushed Utah last week and Oregon just fell to lowly UCLA. The conference is worse than the ACC and the P-12 tourney is wide open. If someone can take out Zona early, you never know.

 

[CuseBlood44]

Wishful thinking, but doubt he would do that for an assistant job.

I actually think this would be a very Wildhack move to stabilize the program. If we made him a top paid assistant in the country I could see it (especially if it coincides with Gerry leaving for a HC job or Griffin (please get rid of him this offseason) or Straughn exiting stage left)

 

[ar inj]

I actually think this would be a very Wildhack move to stabilize the program. If we made him a top paid assistant in the country I could see it (especially if it coincides with Gerry leaving for a HC job or Griffin (please get rid of him this offseason) or Straughn exiting stage left)

Not going to happen.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

I actually think this would be a very Wildhack move to stabilize the program. If we made him a top paid assistant in the country I could see it (especially if it coincides with Gerry leaving for a HC job or Griffin (please get rid of him this offseason) or Straughn exiting stage left)

Hard pass. That ship has sailed into the Pacific Ocean

 

[CuseBlood44]

Hard pass. That ship has sailed into the Pacific Ocean

What are you passing on? A proven recruiter AND developer? Someone who knows how to build a program and can help Red get the culture of the team right?

 

[Day2]

What are you passing on? A proven recruiter AND developer? Someone who knows how to build a program and can help Red get the culture of the team right?

Hop knows how to build a program? Based on what?

Why are you begging to get rid of Griffin? Or a proven recruiter like Straughn?

 

[MSOrange]

What are you passing on? A proven recruiter AND developer? Someone who knows how to build a program and can help Red get the culture of the team right?

I hate that you've put me in the position to slam Hop like this, but I can't let your comment just slide by. What about this indicates Hop knows how to build a program?

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