What he did with this years team was one of the best coaching jobs in the country
Weren’t we picked preseason 2nd or 3rd in the aac? So he achieved what was expected.... not over achieved.
Make some paragraphs and try again. I feel like you may have said something grand but couldn't make it past the 3rd line.
Why hold this year’s team accountable for last year’s result? They simply didn’t have the talent this year to make a run. Let’s be real, in October if we said hey we made the tournament as a 7 seed our reaction would be “excellent year.” What changed? We simply didn’t have the horses this season.
Let’s be real. We had the horses to beat Iowa.
We had the athletes just not the shooters
We had the athletes just not the shooters
I’ve been banging the “get shooters” drum forever but If you don’t have the shooters, don’t get in a shooting contest. Speed the game up. Beat the press. Get lay ups. Don’t slow the game down. I agree, our players weren’t great. Still could have beat Iowa
People are banging the drum to the point where they don't realize they are banging the wrong drum. Just keep banging.
We had two of the 5 best three point shooters in the American and Broome was over 40% for the latter half of the season.
The biggest issue we had was lack of driving threats. Besides Cumberland we had no one who could regularly take their man off the bounce or finish at the basket. Iowa exposed that with their press, we'd break it and then be unable to take advantage - because no one besides Cumberland was a finisher off the drive.
Let's face it Mick Cronin is no more qualified to coach UC basketball than I am.
But I know my limitations but the UC athletic director doesn't re Cronin. How many years do we have to suffer with this loser before a change is made? No one can tell me that UC does not have better players than a lot of teams that are still in the tournament. Cronin can't recruit top players because the better ones know better than to sign with UC.
We started fronting Garza with Scott in the 2nd half. We also doubled him with a guard at times, especially when we had a four guard lineup. Didn't really matter what the defense was, Garza was hitting everything (4-4 from midrange and 2-3 from three). If your plan was to go straight 2-3, I think that would have failed miserably since we haven't done that all year.Did we change anything? I could be wrong but it looked like we kept doing the same thing the whole game.
We started fronting Garza with Scott in the 2nd half. We also doubled him with a guard at times, especially when we had a four guard lineup. Didn't really matter what the defense was, Garza was hitting everything (4-4 from midrange and 2-3 from three). If your plan was to go straight 2-3, I think that would have failed miserably since we haven't done that all year.
After the 10 second violation we started to dribble into the double and passed it forward to Scott in a 3 on 2 situation. Scott doesn't have the skills to attack the basket. The one time he did he travelled. The rest he just turned around and waited for Jenifer.
In halfcourt offense we were able to get Cane in the corner a lot with a big on him. He had a decent game, but not the best considering his opportunities. He went 0-4 from three and travelled at least once trying to drive by Garza too quick. Cane had our highest usage rate, but the lowest ORtg among players with 10+ minutes. If he had made those shots, would we be praising Cronin for his great coaching? I doubt it.
Objectively, we did make adjustments, but our players didn't perform as well as Iowa's. Seems like everyone wants the adjustment to be as simple as "score more points" and "play better defense". Basketball doesn't work that way.
To me the biggest problem is that we were out-rebounded in a game where we should have owned the glass. Jarron, Cane and Trevor had a combined 4 rebounds in 67 minutes. That really hurt us.
You literally said "it looked like we kept doing the same thing the entire game." We didn't, whether or not you think we had a choice.We started fronting Garza because we were smaller. This isn’t an adjustment. It’s how you play defense when you are smaller. You don’t have a choice. If you are smaller and try to play behind him, you’re done.
You literally said "it looked like we kept doing the same thing the entire game." We didn't, whether or not you think we had a choice.
In halfcourt offense we were able to get Cane in the corner a lot with a big on him. He had a decent game, but not the best considering his opportunities. He went 0-4 from three and travelled at least once trying to drive by Garza too quick. Cane had our highest usage rate, but the lowest ORtg among players with 10+ minutes. If he had made those shots, would we be praising Cronin for his great coaching? I doubt it.
We started fronting Garza with Scott in the 2nd half. We also doubled him with a guard at times, especially when we had a four guard lineup. Didn't really matter what the defense was, Garza was hitting everything (4-4 from midrange and 2-3 from three). If your plan was to go straight 2-3, I think that would have failed miserably since we haven't done that all year.
After the 10 second violation we started to dribble into the double and passed it forward to Scott in a 3 on 2 situation. Scott doesn't have the skills to attack the basket. The one time he did he travelled. The rest he just turned around and waited for Jenifer.
In halfcourt offense we were able to get Cane in the corner a lot with a big on him. He had a decent game, but not the best considering his opportunities. He went 0-4 from three and travelled at least once trying to drive by Garza too quick. Cane had our highest usage rate, but the lowest ORtg among players with 10+ minutes. If he had made those shots, would we be praising Cronin for his great coaching? I doubt it.
Objectively, we did make adjustments, but our players didn't perform as well as Iowa's. Seems like everyone wants the adjustment to be as simple as "score more points" and "play better defense". Basketball doesn't work that way.
To me the biggest problem is that we were out-rebounded in a game where we should have owned the glass. Jarron, Cane and Trevor had a combined 4 rebounds in 67 minutes. That really hurt us.
The track team has many athletes but I doubt they could win many basketball games.