Carr and Greenlee don't become the players they are at Minnesota under the coaches we've had.
He wasn't forced to take bad shots, he just took a lot of bad shots early in the shot clock. Yes, he had a few near end of shot clock, but not enough to kill his percentage. He just takes a lot of ill-advised shots.
Actually, I am no so sure about that. I think what hurt Carr here was the lack of trust in teammates. So he took things in his own hands. Carr and a sophomore or junior Greenlee could have played together with Carr at the 2G. We have had good players, we never seem to put a whole team together.
Pitino let Carr get away with whatever he wanted. Texas has taken the best of him and added discipline.
Hmmmm… I went to Carlson and I could seem a path to some truth.
exactly my point...there's something else.
Agree, and the result for Carr was due to the Texas coaching, which with Pitino was lacking.
Settle down, Greta. Getting so triggered is dangerous for fragile victims. Everyone who played shot better than Battle with the exceptions of Samuels and TT.
Like I said...fundamentally stupid.
Problem I have is that Ben was content with it / did nothing to change it.
I agree on greenlee, but I don’t think Pitino coached Carr improperly, I think he failed with the rest of the team. It’s not like Carr is all of the sudden on draft boards - he’s the same player with two more years of experience and surrounded by substantially more talent.
If you want to continue to soil yourself by calling the actual record stupid, carry on.
I believe that the guy who took Cooper’s place at guard for Morehead State was named this year’s league player of the year. I wouldn’t be surprised if Copper moved out of MS because he saw his future playing time dropping.
You are right but that's a different subject. Battle has played basketball most of his life. He knows an early forced shot from 30 feet is the same as a turnover yet he continually did it.
Battle's fault for terrible shots. Coaches' fault for not pulling him.
He's more of a team player. But what are you supposed to do when the offense is "Marcus go score 40?"
I'd have to award that prize to Cheryl Littlejohn.
lol.....you and GWG are digging way too deep into this comparison. I have no interest in trying to rank coaches across sports against each other. But sure to this point in his run Johnson has been even worse than Brewster.
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It smells like coach issues for 2 guys to Leave playing 30+ minutes a game
When a guy is jacking up hopeless early shots it would be difficult to know if there was an actual offense or not. And when two guys play the same position you go with the the best one and hope the other one doesn't go full me me me mode while going one for ten from NBA three range.
One guy left because basketball is all about him, not the team. He got the idea after a good first season here that he could play pro overseas. But with Garcia being a better player and moving him out of his comfort area, he lost any pro stock he had.
Bench him for who? Major issue is no depth, had little choice to play him Same goes for are whole roster.
The biggest problem Ben had, was that he didn't put together enough wing/guard talent on this roster. Thus, he couldn't bench Battle, they couldn't stop opposing guards on defense, and they turned the ball over too much. The team got marginally better at the end when Payne got better, Henley got better and Carrington became available and played better as well. The late season play convinced me that it was the roster, not the game coaching that killed us. Ben needs to go get the talent. If Ihnen and Fox are healthy and solid contributors then our front line is good and the depth is there. We need three more guards. If Ihnen and Fox can't help much then we need a rebounder 4/5 type as well.
Yes, that's how Ben saw it. Only choice was TT, as painful as that would have been. But a couple minutes here and there to show Battle and the team who was in charge would have helped.