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Derka

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  1. i’ve never seen a team with this combination of tempo and AdjD. also, @Dbeasy dusty may is another example (like oats and mccasland) of a younger, lesser acclaimed coach who was identified by a football school’s AD and was a home run hire.
  2. before yesterday we had like 6-7 100 point games in the last decade. definitely rare.
  3. 2h vs chaminade: 10-15 3p tonight: 16-32 3p and the thing about these shots is that they’ve largely been good shots, rhythm jumpers off either a dribble handoff or a catch-and-shoot. before yesterday we were really bad from deep. if we find a happy medium between then and the last two days it will really improve the outlook for this season. really happy with the shot selection.
  4. great pass traore.
  5. pope with another. he needs to watch tonight’s fill every single day and only take the shots he’s been taking in this game going forward. also nc state must have a death wish because they just keep letting him get wide open catch and shoot opportunities.
  6. 45-30 Texas
  7. pope drains another one. team is 8-11 from deep.
  8. the pope highlight reel shows him taking shots off dribble handoffs and wide open catch-and-shoots. that’s always been the thing with him. if he takes good shots he can hit them.
  9. pope 5-5 from deep, good lord.
  10. pope with 12 points on 4-4 from deep, been taking much better shots. swain breakaway dunk makes it 35-25 Texas. 4:45 left in the 1h.
  11. great ball movement leads to the wilcher three. 🤘🏼
  12. weaver comes in and suddenly the game is a track meet and we’ve taken the lead. big impact from him.
  13. big time. our team was wildly greater than the sum of its parts. it was pretty immediately evident that beard was the real deal, and was changing things overnight. we finished 26th in AdjO and 14th in AdjD and won our first tourney game in 6 years. and we did that with a 6-man rotation of lesser talented guys. head coaching is more important in cbb than any other sport, and beard showed that right away. tre mitchell quit the team and dylan disu got hurt and we finished 15th in kenpom in the toughest league in america. that team was *so* much better than shaka’s previous team that had way more talent, experience, athleticism, and shooting. beard was the difference.
  14. says the reactionary vagina who can’t handle anything that isn’t blind sunshine pumping. i keep posting 10 years of data to back up my takes. this is anything but “reactionary” (you mean reactive). miller lost his fastball a long time ago and is a david pierce level hire at best. imo, obviously. if you’re going to cry about it every time i post then just put me on ignore.
  15. mccasland and oats (and beard) are younger coaches on their way up. miller has been past his prime for a decade now. and unlike those coaches miller doesn’t have a set coaching philosophy, all of his best teams have had different looks. it’s a lot easier to enjoy a crappy first year with an up and coming coach with a concrete identity than it is when you have a guy who’s past his prime and whose best days came when he was cheating.
  16. 14/1 G/D is 😍😍😍.
  17. carragher just told declan that he’s the best midfielder in europe.
  18. in the last five tourneys alabama has been to two sweet 16’s, an elite 8, and a final four.
  19. you don’t have to qualify it like that, oats is easily a top 5 coach in america. it’s maddeningly simple too: when asked about his offensive philosophy oats said, “the three best shots in basketball are a catch and shoot three, a dunk, and a free throw; so that’s what we take.” as painfully obvious as that sounds, it doesn’t occur to most coaches to play this way and recruit to this style. it certainly never occurred to shaka or RT to implement “take good shots” as part of their philosophies or game plans.
  20. hell, chris beard was maybe the biggest name in coaching, was at an in-state rival, had just signed a long term extension that made him the 4th highest paid coach in america, with a huge buyout, and we got him no problem. yes, he’s an alum, i’ll give you that. that doesn’t change how appealing this job is. rick barnes turned down kentucky to stay here 15 years ago. this has been a destination gig for a long time now.
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