Players vs coaching

[AnnapSpider]

I don’t pretend to be an expert, but a lot of folks on here keep knocking the recruiting.
I think we have some pretty good players that are just coached very badly.
Our strength use to be our defense. Who would ever think that after today’s game?
We are a shell of our former self.

 

[MrTbone]

Folks knock the recruiting because we generally fail to sign players in competitive scenarios and often sign guys who have minimal interest from other reputable programs. We absolutely have some talent but we also have a lot of question marks which don’t seem to become nonquestion marks considering they often don’t play.

As is often the case, it’s likely not just one failure, both recruiting and coaching are problematic.

 

[SpiderTrap]

You have to have players first. As mentioned above - it seems like we recruit guys who are probably under the radar and hope they develop or were just simply missed by the other schools. That is fine by me - but that can't make up the majority of your recruiting because your only going to find a diamond in the rough so often. The same can happen the other direction where a guy is recruited by bigger schools or same level as us - but is not really that good. But i rather recruit and get the majority of those guys on my roster as I think the likelihood/probability of those guys not becoming contributing players is much less.

 

[ur2K]

These guys are playing (mainly defense) like they are going through the motions. They don’t play hard for this guy - makes me think they don’t believe in the system or haven’t bought in to what he’s trying to accomplish. It’s been like this on defense for years now.

 

[Spiders10]

Mooney's message is stale. Program needs change. ASAP

 

[Spider2020]

Hampton’s showing today proved Mooney’s defensive system doesn’t work, and he’s unwilling to change. Hampton had two players who scored 65 of their 86. They scored 30 of those via the 3 pointer. I think it’s safe to assume almost all the others were free throws or layups. It shouldn’t be hard to gameplan a defensive scheme against a team with only two players who can score. Or, if the other team is draining threes, to switch out of our matchup zone which consistently gives up open shots from three. Run something where the two scorers are covered in man to man, or get doubled, or try SOMETHING other than just sitting in the same defense which isn’t working the whole game. These games are getting painful to watch

 

[urfan1]

Toward the end of the Chaney era with Temple I felt like the game was passing the match up as more teams emphasized the 3 point shot. The shooters cause the match up to spread out to far leaving wide open lanes, or it has you playing the flying dutch man defense.

 

[coachfezz]

Toward the end of the Chaney era with Temple I felt like the game was passing the match up as more teams emphasized the 3 point shot. The shooters cause the match up to spread out to far leaving wide open lanes, or it has you playing the flying dutch man defense.

yes very true