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Not a freak out at all, but after all the talk about commitment to defense disappointing they gave up 40 in the first half to a reportedly mediocre team.
Fran's media day comments bug the shit out of me. Hard to imagine a college coach not seeing defensive identity and commitment as core to team building. And winning.
Also reads like having more than one way to play d vs ball screens will be new to the boys. They might even change it up based on the opponent since they are going to practice it this year (too busy stroking egos most years apparently).
COACH FRAN McCAFFERY: I’ve always been an offensive coach. We’re going to put points on the board. We’re going to run. We’re going to attack, and essentially, we’re going to out-score you.
Most of the time, that’s worked. If you look every year that I’ve coached, we’ve scored the ball. We’ve attacked the rim. We’ve gotten to the free throw line. We’ve gotten into the bonus, gotten into the double bonus.
My players play with supreme confidence. I always have guys up in the scoring leaders, all-league guys, because they play with confidence, and I let them play. That’s great, and our offensive numbers were really good last year. I mean, tremendously good.
But our defensive numbers were not. So, okay, we have to spend more time in practice, whether it’s breaking drills down, one-on-one, two-on-two, three-on-three, four-on-four, and then ultimately five-on-five. Okay, how do we transition defensively; what have we been teaching.
We have to reorganize how we teach that. Ball screen defense; you could go staff-by-staff throughout the country and you might have staffs that spend four hours a day talking about ball screens. It’s just one of those things.
So many teams are running ball screen offenses, whether it be continuity or late shot clock, and depending upon who their point guard is, and depending upon who their 2-guard is.
We really have spent a lot more time talking about defense, and defensive drills, and emphasizing defense, and trying to hold them accountable.
Some of the other stuff will be pretty similar, but maybe a little more subtle changes, little differences. But maybe nothing too major.
Fran's media day comments bug the shit out of me. Hard to imagine a college coach not seeing defensive identity and commitment as core to team building. And winning.
Also reads like having more than one way to play d vs ball screens will be new to the boys. They might even change it up based on the opponent since they are going to practice it this year (too busy stroking egos most years apparently).
COACH FRAN McCAFFERY: I’ve always been an offensive coach. We’re going to put points on the board. We’re going to run. We’re going to attack, and essentially, we’re going to out-score you.
Most of the time, that’s worked. If you look every year that I’ve coached, we’ve scored the ball. We’ve attacked the rim. We’ve gotten to the free throw line. We’ve gotten into the bonus, gotten into the double bonus.
My players play with supreme confidence. I always have guys up in the scoring leaders, all-league guys, because they play with confidence, and I let them play. That’s great, and our offensive numbers were really good last year. I mean, tremendously good.
But our defensive numbers were not. So, okay, we have to spend more time in practice, whether it’s breaking drills down, one-on-one, two-on-two, three-on-three, four-on-four, and then ultimately five-on-five. Okay, how do we transition defensively; what have we been teaching.
We have to reorganize how we teach that. Ball screen defense; you could go staff-by-staff throughout the country and you might have staffs that spend four hours a day talking about ball screens. It’s just one of those things.
So many teams are running ball screen offenses, whether it be continuity or late shot clock, and depending upon who their point guard is, and depending upon who their 2-guard is.
We really have spent a lot more time talking about defense, and defensive drills, and emphasizing defense, and trying to hold them accountable.
Some of the other stuff will be pretty similar, but maybe a little more subtle changes, little differences. But maybe nothing too major.
@ the Queen Latifah line. I'm a sucker for dimples, what can I say? It feels almost icky to think about Connor because of how long he's been around the program, but I can agree he probably looks the most normal of the bunch.
