KoB2011

One school yes, but still multiple trips which is not taking just one team. How many coaches have multiple Final Four trips?

So what we are saying is he gets talent other, supposedly better, coaches can't get and that he is a really good leader. The things you're agreeing to about him sure seem like things I would want in a coach. You brought up Painter, who I think most of us would admit is a good coach... Anyone want to make the case for Painter over Calipari? He may not be Coach K or or Coach Knight, but he is a pretty dang good coach.

How has he made so many Final Fours if he keeps getting outcoached in the tournament? I understand he brings in a lot of talent, but he's taken three different schools to Final Fours and gotten a lot of guys to buy in to playing as a team where others have failed with guys that aren't even that talented. Maybe it isn't great x and o coaching but it certainly is great leadership.

Quin Snyder ain't leaving Utah to coach in college.

I understand why we wouldn't be predicted there by the media, but that wasn't really what I was getting it. My point was more a discussion on if OSU, who just accepted that they'll be at the top of conference, is actually better than us? I don't really see it. I can't look at their projected starters and really see where they have an advantage over us (not that we have big advantages over them, either). I don't buy that they have a coaching advantage AT ALL. The questions about Woodson had to do with running a college program, which he has so far answered, not his ability to coach a basketball team. But to your point about what we "lost" from last season... we probably have 4 new starters and you could make a case every single of them is better than the guy they're replacing. The fifth guy might be the best player in the conference.

I completely understand why Ohio State is top three, but then I look at their projected starters and ours and can't figure out why we can't be in that same upper echelon of the conference next season?

Yeah I personally want no part of him on the Pacers but that is definitely the minimum his value would be IMO.

I don't really disagree with anything you said, but I'll add that I don't think there is anything wrong with him having other priorities. It is perfectly fine if he is content being what he is now. He'll probably cost himself a lot of money with that approach, but it isn't like he won't have more than enough either way.

Weiskamp staying in the draft probably means Iowa is hot garbage next year.

Saving the last minute of this years blowout, Gonzaga played 7 guys and Baylor played 8. I think it's normal to play a bigger rotation in the regular season than you do in the tournament/playoffs, but rest assured in the year 2021 benches are short by the time postseason play comes around for teams that are competing for a title. If you look at the '85 Lakers (won the title) vs the 2021 Bucks, each team has three players averaging over 30 MPG and an additional two players averaging over 25 MPG. I think it is easy as fans to forget how a coach manages/plays his rotation in a run of the mill regular season game. We tend to compare what a coach this year would do in a random game in the middle of January to what Knight would have done in the tournament, and it just isn't really a fair comparison.

I don’t see any overlap of ones grasp of the English language and their basketball IQ. But perhaps I am wrong about that.

Ben Simmons isn’t intelligent? I’ll agree he’s a head case but I think he’s a very high IQ player.

Good for CP3! and Pat Bev has to be among the dirtiest players in the league.

Maybe a little, but it’s a small sample size and when you think about the fact that the Hawks haven’t really had many blow out wins but have gotten blown out a couple times by the 76ers and Bucks it makes sense.

I think you’d be hard pressed to find another dynasty in NBA history that could lose their best player, do nothing to replace him, and that’s the only fall off they have. It’s already been said, but look what happened every time LeBron left. Or look at Houston when Harden left, or OKC when KD left, the Lakers when they lost Shaq, etc. The conclusion almost has to be either Pippen was really damn good or else Jordan wasn’t as big of an impact on winning as a lot of other historically great players.

Yeah and the pieces fit together really well. The guards can all facilitate and score, two of them from all three levels. All the wings are really good three and D guys, and Ayton is really such a perfect big for them. Doesn’t need a lot of touches, finishes incredibly well at the rim, and can score when you let him shoot jumpers or post up. Even Dario getting the backup big minutes is a really good fit for them.

Then he could clearly walk and was better at whatever percentage he was than the guys behind him.

Phoenix probably has three of the best four players in the series with Kawhi. I definitely think at this exact moment they have the better roster.

Oh gotcha, I misunderstood. Yeah, Kukoc was the better jump shooter.

This is a really tough question. I think since CP3 has less shots left at a title and he isn't being asked to do this without the teams best player I'd have to say he has more to lose.

Wait.... Kukoc and Pippen are statistically pretty close? Are we saying they are similarly talented players?

So for the folks that seem to agree with this, what does that mean about Jordan? Was the era the Bulls dominated that bad? Why didn't the Bulls have hardly any fall off when Jordan "retired" the first time? Why was Scottie so easily able to step in and play like an MVP in Jordan's place?

Right, we aren’t going to just sit back and hit threes. But we have to hit the good looks we get once we get into the middle to make them extend the zone or else they’ll collapse on us in the middle.

This isn’t a game TJD can just go dominant because he is better than the other big. We are going to have to scheme well for him, and if our shooters aren’t hitting shots to extend the zone I’m not sure it’ll matter. I am really looking forward to seeing how we attack the zone. We have the personnel IMO, but we have to have the right game plan and then go execute.

Definitely our toughest challenge. Would like to see a couple more Power 5 opponents, especially since we drew a bad opponent for the Gavit Games and ND is probably not going to be good next year.