When he was first announced, I was puzzled by the selection.
After watching games that first year that changed. The roster wasn't great, but they played hard each game. Injuries and a lack of depth really hurt their chances to win more games. Yes, the roster building was on him and his inexperience as a head coach was exposed in those games. He did a very nice job of being able to recruit players after that first year as he finally had something to show to players. Year 2 was not good in terms of wins and it was really hard to watch some games. Defensively, you could see what they were trying to do, they just were not good at executing it due to inexperience and still no depth.
He's got some depth this year and they have slowly started to understand what it takes to compete at this level on both ends of the floor. We still have stretches of not being good, but they have started to minimize those more and more as the season has gone on. He has shown to be able to draw up plays out of time outs, has good inbound plays and has adjusted the offense as the season has gone on to take advantage of the match ups and hot hand on a given night. The defense has been good to great for most of the season. Put it all together and it shows me that BJ can coach. I think he's going to be one of the better hires this program has had when his time is finally over.
