If it is Saunders or JB i will cease all financial support. Not a shred of evidence that they will build anything here.
JB is an NBA head coach making somewhere around 5 million, you dont have to worry about him coming here. Its hilarious he even pops up on these lists.
I get what you are saying. However, I have watched enough of Roddy to know that he would have been a great addition to the Gophers.
TOTALLY agree.
Get off your ass, take a one hour walk, and listen to the podcast. That's why it's called a podcast instead of a music video...
That would be an awesome line up. That group would defend well if taught the correct scheme and system.
yes he is a SF/wing. He is wide bodied wing who moves really well.....great rebounder at the position as well. he is not a 4
Oh I totally agree and am frustrated we didn’t land Roddy, my point was more about Medved who hasn’t proved a great deal in his coaching career yet. I included Roddy because people have talked about them as a package deal.
I’d like to see that lineup in a 3-2 matchup zone. I feel Mash would be more effective if limited to guarding the top. It would greatly help with limiting his deficiencies. Never liked Pitinos style of defense or offense.
Too many games this year where teams continued to get easy penetration or easy baskets at the rim. Games where teams shot 50-60% from the field and yet we tried nothing new on defense. No zone, no press, no switches on ball screens, no trap on ball screens. Just watching and hoping teams would miss layups.
Because in part, Gophers had no big bodies down low. Other than Robbins, it was Johnson at 6'8? But agree, everything always the same, there were rarely adjustments, just like on offense. The more dependent the team became on Carr, it actually made things worse, though his scoring totals may have looked good int he process.
Yeah, that is just lazy coaching. I used to have my teams throw a different defense on the opposing team depending on whether we scored or not. Whether there was a timeout, clock stoppage or a mandatory in-bounds. Then we would switch the automatics at halftime so the other team couldn't get comfortable. No score in the first half - man to man. Score - zone. Court length inbounds play - press. Never run the same zone twice in a row.
So your team played an Iowa style defense?
No, not at all. Very low scoring games for the other teams. Lots of steals.So your team played an Iowa style defense?
I’m not a big “zone” guy but you can switch how you handle screens, gap help, and post defense. Gophers don’t do a ton of adjustments in these coverages that work, but my biggest issue with Pitinos D was honestly just straight fundamentals. We give up too much easy penetration and lose guys too often. I still don’t understand what our D took pride in. We typically have good rim protection, but we over rely on it
Yeah, we have no identity.
