As I watch some of these other teams play...

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I can't help but wonder what UT could have done this year with a real half court offense. When I see Butler, Pitt, etc. running clear cut half court sets and offenses and then compare it to what we do it is a polar opposite. Give me a coach that teaches fundamental basketball and defense and I will be happy.
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The offense is Pearl's weakness as a coach.
 
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My son and i were watching Duke MI game and my son just said "how come those guys are always moving and hustling and our guys don't?" from the mouths of babes. :banghead2:
 
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Chilmonty said:
My son and i were watching Duke MI game and my son just said "how come those guys are always moving and hustling and our guys don't?" from the mouths of babes. :banghead2:
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My mother said the exact same thing. The fact that a child and mother both notice that, speaks volumes.
 
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just think if shelby and craft would have stayed committed to UT! If believe they left because they new what was getting ready to happen
 
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btrotter said:
just think if shelby and craft would have stayed committed to UT! If believe they left because they new what was getting ready to happen
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It doesn't take Crafts and Selbys to win in cbb nowadays.

Our staff has seemed content to shoot for the stars with no back-up plans outside of DI rejects and Juco projects. Which wouldn't be THAT big of a problem if it wasn't for the fact the staff is fundamentals retarded.
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Great posts folks. They mirror everything I saw on the court this past season. We got bailed out by a couple of key players that knew how to create offense each season when it came to the half court. Not so this year. Pearl has never had a real half court offense and doesn't understand that you cannot over-sub when you have to play one. Over-subbing destroys the timing and flow.
 
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So far, it has been mentioned that we have no 3 point shooters, poor PG play and a lack of post scoring. How exactly can a coach run a coherent offense with those deficiencies?
 
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Chilmonty said:
My son and i were watching Duke MI game and my son just said "how come those guys are always moving and hustling and our guys don't?" from the mouths of babes. :banghead2:
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Which announcer was it earlier this year that said we were standing around so much that he honestly couldn't tell whether the other team was playing a man to man or zone?
 
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Cant win with JUST athletes. You have to incorporate some shooters in there. If Pearl or Pastner would do this their offenses would be scary...
 
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Vercingetorix said:
You can do that just by emphasizing tempo and transition offense without being able to coach a lick of half-court offense.
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Bruce is better with a tempo and transition offense than a half-court offense. Bottom line - he's had very successful offensive teams.
 
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UT IE 95 said:
Bruce is better with a tempo and transition offense than a half-court offense. Bottom line - he's had very successful offensive teams.
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Only if you're willing to look at a stat like points per game in some disembodied, contextless state. In terms of something like, "knows how to get a bucket against a good team when they really need one" -- which I would consider something basic that a "successful offensive team" would know how to do -- then no, his offensive teams haven't been that good.

The debacle on Friday began when Michigan went to a zone and Pearl's team, as is typical for Pearl's teams, had no idea what to do to score. I would think that being able to attack a zone defense would be a fundamental component of any "successful" offensive team, regardless of what their per-game stats look like .
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Only if you're willing to look at a stat like points per game in some disembodied, contextless state. In terms of something like, "knows how to get a bucket against a good team when they really need one" -- which I would consider something basic that a "successful offensive team" would know how to do -- then no, his offensive teams haven't been that good.

The debacle on Friday began when Michigan went to a zone and Pearl's team, as is typical for Pearl's teams, had no idea what to do to score. I would think that being able to attack a zone defense would be a fundamental component of any "successful" offensive team, regardless of what their per-game stats look like .
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This. And how the fact that they weren't ready for the 1-3-1 is just inexcusable. It's not like it was a surprise that they hit us with it.
 
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