He's had 5 YEARS. There hasn't been any type of change in his offensive philosophy over that entire period. I just don't see how anyone can say this team is going from the cellar this year to a competitive team next season.
The Future of Alabama Basketball and Anthony Grant
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We went to NIT last year, brought back most of the players, added Key, Hale and Taylor, and are much, much worse.
We lost Steele, Gueye, Lacey and Pollard. I'm not defending Grant, but that statement isn't true at all.
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You are joking, right? The fact the Mountain Brook has won 2 state titles in a row is more a testament to how bad the high school baskeball is in this state.
No, I'm not joking that I think he's done a tremendous job with that program. The first sentence in my post said I wasn't advocating hiring him now.. I was trying to point out how good coaching can affect a team as there is no way MB has the most talented roster. They did however best every good basketball team in the state and I think he's a heckuva coach. He puts an entertaining team on the floor, which I miss seeing in Coleman.
The announcers at the UA/AU game commented several times that 40% of D1 basketball players transfer. Guess we ain't doing so bad in that respect.
It is a systemic problem. The top wants to come in for a one-and-done to the NBA. I think this has crept in the mindset of a lot players in the tiers below those one-and-dones. Kids don't want to develop. They want to be handed the keys to the car the day they come onto campus. As soon as things go sideways, they want to bail for greener grass.
College basketball is just really broken. As much as people clamored when it was clear that guys like Lebron and Dwight Howard in the future would have to play in college, I think it has weakened the overall product. I think the one-and-done system has created a transient feel to college basketball programs. Sure one-and-dones existed before the rule, but I think far more mid-tier prospects came in with the desire to put in 3-4 years of work and earn things over their college career.
College basketball is just really broken. As much as people clamored when it was clear that guys like Lebron and Dwight Howard in the future would have to play in college, I think it has weakened the overall product. I think the one-and-done system has created a transient feel to college basketball programs. Sure one-and-dones existed before the rule, but I think far more mid-tier prospects came in with the desire to put in 3-4 years of work and earn things over their college career.
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What I meant by most is we had more returning players than left. My overall point is we shouldn't have gone from NIT to losing record.
I knew what you meant, and it's a good point. We should not have slipped this far...
And this was my biggest problem with CMG (Besides the inbounding problems) and now CAG. There is no way that we should have the record that we have! No development.
Do I understand the rule correctly? That players don't actually have to attend college but have to be out of high school at least one year.
If CAG survives and is the coach again next year, what changes should he make?
1) Per our discussion in the UA/AU game threat, let the kids play. Don't shackle them to play a scheme they aren't capable of or were recruited to play.
2) Go get the best big man that is available in the JUCO ranks. We've got to have someone who can get a few rebounds and score a few points.
3) Hire someone that can coach the inside players and dedicate that person to polishing Jimmy Taylor. The kid has a lot of raw potential but unless he gets better coaching he will never get much better than he is now.
4) Make an extra effort to relate better with the players. I don't know this for a fact but it appears to me that CAG is out of touch with his players.
However, none of these things addresses some of the other issues that we've seen with CAG such as odd substitution patterns, unwillingness to call a timeout to stop an opponents run, lack of emotion at key times, lack of public relation skills, etc.
1) Per our discussion in the UA/AU game threat, let the kids play. Don't shackle them to play a scheme they aren't capable of or were recruited to play.
2) Go get the best big man that is available in the JUCO ranks. We've got to have someone who can get a few rebounds and score a few points.
3) Hire someone that can coach the inside players and dedicate that person to polishing Jimmy Taylor. The kid has a lot of raw potential but unless he gets better coaching he will never get much better than he is now.
4) Make an extra effort to relate better with the players. I don't know this for a fact but it appears to me that CAG is out of touch with his players.
However, none of these things addresses some of the other issues that we've seen with CAG such as odd substitution patterns, unwillingness to call a timeout to stop an opponents run, lack of emotion at key times, lack of public relation skills, etc.
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