Season Updates

[waterhead]

Originally Posted by justinhub2003

Seriously who did you want ? You didn’t say

Yes I did

[skyblade]

Originally Posted by sedziobs

You've got this backwards. They give up a ton of free throws. If I had to pick the one thing about Wes that scares me the most, it's that his teams give up a bunch of three point attempts and free throws every year. It's going to be hard to stop modern offenses doing that. And it's not something it seems like he wants to correct given his comments. He'd rather try to beat you with pressure and rebounding. I think he wants to fix the offense, but he's got pretty bad scheme issues there too. I'm hopeful, but these are the things that worry me. He wasn't playing modern basketball at UNCG.

Oh, I guess I did. His team was very good at three point defense in 2018 and 2021 though, so hopefully he's learning.

I do like not fouling, but Sampson has success with the commit so many fouls the refs stop calling them strategy.

[justinhub2003]

Originally Posted by waterhead

Yes I did

Can you say again, I missed it

[waterhead]

I was more on board with Brannen than this

But I will back this coach to the moon and back and then 5 times more

[Jon Rycek]

Originally Posted by skyblade

But how many top 50 kenpom teams have they beaten?

I am also fine with Wes Miller, I do wonder why Scott Nagy wasn't interviewed if we are going the veteran coach route. But I suppose Wes is quite a bit younger and a bit more successful.

Pedon might outrage a lot of the people who want Martin. He's not much (if any) more qualified.

He’s beat 100 top 50 teams, dude he’s from a small conference what the hell do you want.

[skyblade]

Originally Posted by Jon Rycek

He’s beat 100 top 50 teams, dude he’s from a small conference what the hell do you want.

Sorry, didn't include the /s tag. Poking fun at Justin because that was one of his favorite complaints about Brannen.

[waterhead]

Originally Posted by justinhub2003

Can you say again, I missed it

I was on board with many of the other names. Marty, Archie, gates, tang, etc

Personally I wanted Martin and Exel but that must have fallen apart

[justinhub2003]

Originally Posted by waterhead

I was more on board with Brannen than this

But I will back this coach to the moon and back and then 5 times more

Why?

We just landed a guy who had legit interviews at UNC and by most accounts was the runner up.

He’s young, hungry, relatable, and knows defense.

Offense can be fixed with better players.


I can understand not loving him. But saying John was better is just short sighted.

I’m excited, and I just listened to CBS sports podcast and they did a 10 minute segment on our hire and they seem to love it. So does Goodman, borzello, and others,

LOL most of college basketball thinks we hit a home run except UC fans. John Brannen was a nobody to the national media.

[Jon Rycek]

Originally Posted by waterhead

I was more on board with Brannen than this

But I will back this coach to the moon and back and then 5 times more

This is a far better hire than Brannen, he was in running for UNC job lol. You think Brannen had chances like that?

[justinhub2003]

Originally Posted by waterhead

I was on board with many of the other names. Marty, Archie, gates, tang, etc

Personally I wanted Martin and Exel but that must have fallen apart

What is modern about Martin and Van Exel though? We are going through an entire rebuild. We need a guy who’s been a head coach.