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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5010638, member: 722"]
If the question is "What value did Straughn being as a coach?" I think it's hard to say.

He had a reputation as an analysis guy who could help the offensive design and game plan.

I saw no real evidence of that.  Every so often, we would run something that looked like a play, and I'd get hopeful... "That must be what they're working on!" And then we would never see it again.

There is no cohesive, repeated offense except the isolation.

As I've stated before, when you've got an elite isolation player like Judah freaking Mintz, sometimes you let him play isolation until the opposition shows they can stop it.

The problem comes when Mintz had been stopped.  We never figured out how to score consistently when Mintz wasn't getting to the basket and/or the free throw line.

General 20 did a breakdown post where Syracuse started rolling Brown after the pick and making teams pay for hedging on the dribbler by getting Brown the ball in the middle... Then we stopped it.  We had some games where Bell had a ton of movement off the ball and earned open looks.  Then we stopped it.

It felt like we just never got an offensive identity other than "Give it to Mintz and watch."

That isn't going to work next year.  Maybe Mintz was the problem?

Straughn didn't seem to be some world beating offensive game planner who made the team better. If that was his role, he hasn't reached tenure yet.

If he's really just a recruiter, then that's important, but the team needs to win, not just recruit.
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