Originally Posted by
dawg80
Total BS!
A lot needs to be said.
IF it is true Boy Wonder (BW) is TRYING to teach this group to play real team basketball, we should see the team TRYING to execute a real offense. And, if it is true this bunch is too set in their ways, which I will dispute, then we would see them trying, but not doing particularly well running a real offense. BW is not the first coach to step into a situation and try to make wholesale changes to a system.
At NSU I never saw, NOT ONCE! Tech even try to execute any semblance of a real offense. Again, it would be one thing to see the team trying to run set plays, and not doing well, especially early in the season. Hell! I could live with that. Quite another to only see school yard play.
Why didn't he call a timeout early in the game, say after a few minutes, and instruct them to run a play? And then, if the starters and the top 8-9 either can't or refuse, bench their butts. Find 5 players who WILL do what you're asking them to do and, if no one else seems to want to, allow those to play all 40 mins. That's what I would do.
Bet the starters would either quit the team, or suddenly start doing what you want them to. Either result is fine.