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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 4900864, member: 837"]
For me, I'm not saying Red is good or bad at this point. It's way too early regardless of who was hired to know for sure (I mean, unless you're 0-11 or 11-0, perhaps). But I feel like the entire argument is just kinda bizarre because the job was always going to go to either Red or GMac and, presumably, it was likely Red only.

When the Duke job goes to Scheyer, UNC stays in-house twice to replace legends (Guthridge for Dean, Hubert Davis for Roy), Georgetown went to Esherick, UConn went to Ollie after Calhoun -- it's just the way these things go most of the time so there's not that much point in debating it.

Having said that, I think it's fine to critique what we've seen through 11 games. Doesn't mean Red sucks or that Red is awesome -- just what have we seen? Where can we improve?

I'd love to see, for example, the communication on defense improve. We get beat down the floor or struggle to handle basic offensive actions at an alarming rate. It's led to a lot of uncontested layups, transition scoring opportunities, and wide open threes. And no, I don't believe our defensive intensity is what's causing teams to miss wide open looks. I mean, if we see this for three years then fine, but giving up lots of open looks is not great defense any way you slice it.

Also love to see us push the tempo more (Red seems to want this happening too). How does he work Westry into this if he can get back healthy?

Plenty to watch but, at the end of the day, gotta be patient with Red to a certain degree.
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