USC HC Andy Enfield: 'If you want to play slow, go to UCLA'

[BleedGopher]

per SportingNews:

The following statement from USC coach Andy Enfield should hit your ears enough for you to listen, and listen good.

"We play up-tempo basketball here," he told his Trojans players at a recent practice, per a report from the Bay Area News Group’s Jeff Faraudo. "If you want to play slow, go to UCLA."

And so goes the first shot across the bow in the newest iteration of this rivalry, one between two coaches new to their schools — Enfield having arrived from Dunk City (Florida Gulf Coast), and Steve Alford having come from New Mexico to reach Westwood.

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...nt-usc-coach-playing-slow-steve-alford-bruins

Go Gophers!!

 

[MadtownGopher]

I love Pitino and wouldn't take any other coach (that we could have potentially landed), but Enfield would be a fun coach to have around. Though I could definitely see him becoming the basketball version of Tim Brewster.

 

[Bad Gopher]

It might have looked like playground, but it was good, fundamental basketball. Moving without the ball, hitting cutters, everyone in motion - they made Georgetown look like they were standing still or like the Washington Generals.

 

[60's Guy]

I love Pitino and wouldn't take any other coach (that we could have potentially landed), but Enfield would be a fun coach to have around. Though I could definitely see him becoming the basketball version of Tim Brewster.

Enfield is pegged as being extremely bright and persuasive. Brewster seems generously credited with only one of the two qualities.

 

[bleedsmaroonandgold]

Enfield is pegged as being extremely bright and persuasive. Brewster seems generously credited with only one of the two qualities.

I don't think the credit for persuasiveness was unduly generous. He was a one trick pony, but he was good at that trick. He managed to get us very excited and optimistic about his hiring, and kept us there after arguably the worst season in Gopher football history. Then, the following year, he managed to get himself in the discussion for B1G coach of the year at the midpoint of the next season, despite the fact that he did not beat a single Big Ten school who would go on to a bowl game that year.

 

[Sparlimb]

I don't care about Andy Enfield, but that reminds me I haven't looked up his wife lately. Going to remedy that now.

 

[gaunt006]

I went out and got a drink with a Fort Myers area coaching staff and we talked about FCGU. They said the scope of the turn around had a lot more to do with just how bad Dave Balza was at FCGU than how good Enfield was. They all thought that they are better off now with Joe Dooley. That's not to say they thought Enfield was going to fail, but they felt that everything fell into place for him in Fort Myers.

 

[WanderingGopher]

I love Pitino and wouldn't take any other coach (that we could have potentially landed), but Enfield would be a fun coach to have around. Though I could definitely see him becoming the basketball version of Tim Brewster.

Enfield definitely reminds me of Brewster. It was fun watching his team last year, but the way he's going about things at USC, and things he's saying, kind of rub me the wrong way now.

 

[Gopher Warrior]

I went out and got a drink with a Fort Myers area coaching staff and we talked about FCGU. They said the scope of the turn around had a lot more to do with just how bad Dave Balza was at FCGU than how good Enfield was.

Didn't the Fort Myers folks fall for Reusse's lies about Balza?

I'll say this: for program building I'd be a lot happier with Richard Pitino today than Enfield. Not to take away from what FGCU accomplished - they did some great things. Just think the ceiling for Pitino is substantially higher.

 

[oak_street1981]

I went out and got a drink with a Fort Myers area coaching staff and we talked about FCGU. They said the scope of the turn around had a lot more to do with just how bad Dave Balza was at FCGU than how good Enfield was. They all thought that they are better off now with Joe Dooley. That's not to say they thought Enfield was going to fail, but they felt that everything fell into place for him in Fort Myers.

These are borderline absurd comments. There is no way a team from a no name school like Enfield's beats teams in the NCAA tournament so convincingly without great coaching. To overly credit the former coach over Enfield is not reasonalble.

 

[gaunt006]

These are borderline absurd comments. There is no way a team from a no name school like Enfield's beats teams in the NCAA tournament so convincingly without great coaching. To overly credit the former coach over Enfield is not reasonalble.

Did you see how athletic the no name school was? Their roster wasn't made up of a bunch of North Dakota kids who couldn't jump over a deck of cards. Eddie Murray is a ridiculous athlete and 99.9% of all NCAA teams didn't have a guy as athletic last year. The credit that Enflield needs is that he lighted the mood and just let the kids play. I didn't mean to imply that Enfield didn't was a bad coach, but I forgot it's the internet so things can only be viewed in the extreme.

Eddie Murray at 17

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