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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 1597586, member: 210"] I think the problem is that we've had such unbalanced teams over the course of the last decade or so that it's been pretty easy to isolate on the guy who is the designated shooter for the year and take him out of the game. Cooney has been that guy the last few years. CJ was the guy his senior year. Triche was the guy before CJ... KJO was the guy before Triche The good teams we have had have enough shooters where a team can't focus on one dude. The Wes/Rautins/triche/scoop/AO/KJO/Rick year was amazing because we had offense at every position and off the bench. The Dion years were decent because again Scoop/Dion/Rick/Brandon gave us a pretty balanced offense. Other than those two years and the Melo/Gmac and Hakim/Gmac years we have struggled to put a balanced offense on the floor. Sadly I can't even remember before Gmac/Melo but I remember we had some pretty bad offensive teams then too. We're talking about 4 or 5 good years out of 15. I have the utmost respect for Coach JB for his innovation on defense... but I think the NCAA caught up to his D and he hasn't been innovative enough on offense to compensate. Ironically this year is one of the first years in a LONG time where I've seen some innovation on offense but the lack of player development (Cooney, KJO), injuries (Coleman), early departures and NCAA issues have left us with a program that is in pretty bad shape for this year. We need to get really lucky over the next couple of seasons and hope that some guys can stick around so we can build some program depth. We are never going to be Kentucky or Duke so we need to start doing much much better with our recruiting strategies in building a program or we're going to turn into ND with one good year out of every 4 if the stars align. [/QUOTE]

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