Mike Hopkins

[Cheriehoop]

And here we go

Would it be surprising Lloyd leaving Arizona? Is Washington a better job? He’s certainly done well at Arizona. Sad for Hop but not surprised.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Lloyd is from Washington.

 

[two3zone]

And here we go

Tommy Lloyd from Arizona? I know he’s from Washington but this is insane to me.

 

[two3zone]

Curious on what route hop takes from here

Probably drop down a level or a really bad P5 team. I hope he waits for a great situation.

 

[RF2044]

Probably drop down a level or a really bad P5 team. I hope he waits for a great situation.

NBA

 

[two3zone]

NBA

Don’t know why it never crossed my mind but that would be so awesome. I’m sure there are plenty of benches that would want him.

 

[dasher]

I love Hop but we dodged a bullet here.

 

[two3zone]

I love Hop but we dodged a bullet here.

The zone killed him.

 

[tbonezone]

he was an assistant coach here for like what ? 23 years ? if your dream and goal in life is to be a HC ...that's a long time to sit on the bench. i mean you could actually be coaching your own upper classmen hemorrhoids.

 

[atlanticuse]

LFGO

 

[RF2044]

I love Hop but we dodged a bullet here.

Massive bullet.

Agree 100%.

 

[RF2044]

The zone killed him.

Being a no-trick pony killed him.

 

[two3zone]

Being a no-trick pony killed him.

He ran into some incredible bad luck at the worst times that third year, after that it’s been a downward spiral, I don’t understand how someone like Hop doesn’t have any tricks in the bag, especially when you’re losing game after game and not changing anything. He doesn’t seem like a stubborn guy.

 

[Frozen]

I would absolutely love Hop to come back as an assistant. Probably not going to happen.

 

[Owens guy]

Wouldn’t an NBA assistant coaching job be a big salary reduction for Hop with no NBA coaching experience?

Wouldn’t he make more as the #1 assistant coach on a NCAA program?

 

[Bayside44]

The zone killed him.

Going 3000 miles from his recruiting base didn't help him.

 

[dasher]

Wouldn’t an NBA assistant coaching job be a big salary reduction for Hop with no NBA coaching experience?

Wouldn’t he make more as the #1 assistant coach on a NCAA program?

It depends. There are ass'ts in the NBA that make more than 1 million a year. But it is rare. Almost no ass'ts in college make that much. But the floors would be pretty close.

 

[miamicuse]

how close is Mike from retirement age?

 

[Cheriehoop]

He ran into some incredible bad luck at the worst times that third year, after that it’s been a downward spiral, I don’t understand how someone like Hop doesn’t have any tricks in the bag, especially when you’re losing game after game and not changing anything. He doesn’t seem like a stubborn guy.

His team played man to man this year which might have started last year.

 

[Cheriehoop]

how close is Mike from retirement age?

He’s still pretty young - around 53 or so

 

[MSOrange]

how close is Mike from retirement age?

He is 54

 

[phil77]

Sucks for Mike hoped it worked out better for him. It will be interesting where the rest of his career takes him. Not much room for a zone-only team in this day in age of basketball.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Sucks for Mike hoped it worked out better for him. It will be interesting where the rest of his career takes him. Not much room for a zone-only team in this day and age of basketball.

Offense was by far a bigger problem for him. He had two McDonalds All Americans and had a losing record. They have regularly been one of the worst shooting teams in the country since he’s been there.

 

[two3zone]

His team played man to man this year which might have started last year.

He’s been there for almost a decade though.

 

[Cheriehoop]

He’s been there for almost a decade though.

It seemed like their biggest issue was offense the past few years only averaging 68 to 70 points a game while giving up from 78 to around 72 points to opponents depending on the year. Oddly this year, their offense is scoring a great average of 81 while their defense allowing 76.5 points/game after switching to man to man so their stats are better than the past 3 years but their record still is hovering a little better than winning half their games. After going 5-21 in 2020-2021 the improvement to 14-12 this year so far they decided isn’t enough to retain him.

I think losing Jason Hart and Tony Bland as assistants to Enfield and USC really hurt him in his staffing plans for a west coast head coaching gig when he went out there.