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Originally Posted by skyblade
How long can you guys keep blaming Mick? He took us to 9 straight NCAA tournaments and we would no doubt be on our way to another one if he was still here. But I guess Mick having a couple bad losses over a couple years somehow makes up for Brannen having numerous bad losses over less than two.
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you obviously missed my point with those losses. It's to show that losses happen, Justin's assertion that you can just roll out a ball to Cumberland to win a conf is absurd. But Mick's bad losses (Presbyterian, Nevada, ECU, IOWA, Harvard, etc) outweigh John's losses so far and you treat Mick like God and as if John has no clue what he's doing.
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Originally Posted by skyblade
Brannen had to scrape together a roster because he couldn't keep (or forced off) the guys who were on the roster. He has also badly screwed up recruiting bigs and transfers. Cronin doesn't get blamed for the fact that Brannen has no clue what a quality big looks like.
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No, he had to scrape together a roster because some guys who he had no connection with whatsoever decided to leave and the others were barely D1 worthy. Not sure what you think he could have done to recruit a quality big that late in the game. What quality bigs did he decide not to recruit, because you keep playing this angle?
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Originally Posted by skyblade
Brannen has made a lot of baffling and bad decisions. His coaching deserves to be questioned at this point, because it has been bad. Doesn't mean he can't turn it around, but no one should be happy with how he has coached to this point.
The game where he kept McNeal in and let him miss a ton of FT's (as the other team was purposefully fouling him) and we lost. Refusing to let Jarron handle the ball early in the year last year. Bringing in Rap to play the 4. Thinking Vogt is a quality center. Refusing to give Diarra a shot, despite him being our best center at the end of last year. It's a long list.
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Yep, he has made some. I get that. It's also fair to question some of his decisions (though I disagree with giving Diarra a shot, he has had plenty of shots and still hasn't done anything with them. He looked awful earlier in the year before he quit). But Brannen is also a young coach learning his players and learning through some of his mistakes. Mistakes will happen. They happen to even the best or who you consider the best, e.g., Mick leaving Cumberland in to pick up his 5th foul against Nevada. Doing the same thing with Brooks against Iowa. Not running Lance Stephenson at PG (funny cuz this is the same think you both are blaming Cronin on and he made the same mistke with Lance). I could go on and on.
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Originally Posted by skyblade
Throw in overall lack of player development and there's a whole lot not to be happy about.
As for the players being better than what Cronin was bring in, I don't see it. Cronin was averaging sending 1 guy per year to the NBA recently. The only guy in Brannen's crop who looks like he may have a shot at the NBA is Eason.
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Mick's last two years compared to Brannen's. IMO, Brannen's is much better and that's coming late into the program while Mick had it established.
2017
KW
Diarra
Trevor Moore
Eliel Nsoseme
Cane Broom
2018
Rashawn Fredericks
Logan Johnson
Prince Gillam
LaQuill Hardnett
2019
Zach Harvey
MAW
Jeremiah Davenport
Chris Vogt
Jevan Cumberland
2020
Tari Eason
Mike Saunders
Mason Madsen
Gabe Madsen
David DeJulius
Rap
Victor Lakhin