Bearcat_NTS
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A new arena is a huge selling point to attract good coaching candidates.
A new arena is a huge selling point to attract good coaching candidates.
It certainly attracted Huggs here the last time. Three years later......Final 4.
A new arena is a huge selling point to attract good coaching candidates.
Now that we've been swept by Temple, the "we're this close to being a Top 10 team" excuse doesn't work anymore. So we move on to the refs and the arena. There HAS to be a reason we're failing and there's no way it can have anything to do with the coach. No. It's coaching. And it's scheme. Very simple if you're willing to be honest with yourself.
I know your fed up with cronin but do you want him fired or want him to change?
You can't win with Shaq and #10 getting 30min
I know your fed up with cronin but do you want him fired or want him to change?
Caupain would be fine playing 30 minutes if he is hitting shots. He gives you weak defense and weak passing, so he absolutely must hit shots at an efficient rate. Scoring 14 points is meaningless if it takes him 15-20 shots to do it. The percentage that he shot last year would be fine at this year's volume.
You can only thrive as the slowest team in America if you have an efficient offense with multiple outside shooters and stretch big men. We have 1 shooter. Caupain, Johnson, Evans and Thomas are shooting a combined 25.3% from 3 in conference play. And on top of that, we take inefficient long 2s all game long. But Cronin can live with it bc his whole goal at this point is to hold the score down to inflate our ranking in defensive point totals.
"We're hoping to have a lot more possessions in our games because we're going to be able to sustain our press" Cronin said. "The biggest change for us is going to be pressing and the ability to bring full-court pressure the entire game. We're going to play 10 or 11 guys."
You may remember that coach. He moved on to an average basketball program, already has taken them to a Final 4, and last week beat #1 and lost to #2 at the buzzer, playing a style of ball that we once played and with the kind of recruits we once got, and they are 16-2 and ranked ahead of all those blue-blood schools who supposedly get all the good players. Must be the attractiveness of Morgantown, because as we know, college basketball is different today..