I’m floored that the search so quiet.
Pastner’s personality is great; his offense is a mess, thoughFleck's got back-to-back 9 win seasons at Minnesota, so I guess it works so far?
I'm not saying my personal opinion of personalities is the best proxy. I loved Boeheim and Pastner.
With NIL the only personality that matters is BenjaminsPersonality matters in today's game with NIL.
What I should have said. As usual, I prefer to go with the horse that brung me, but that's as likely to be a mistake as not.Whether firing Pastner is a mistake or not will be seen with who we hire. At the time firing Hewitt seemed like the long overdue obvious move. In hindsight we are probably worse off as a program for making it.
We may very well hire someone who takes the core that Pastner has put together, supplements with a couple key transfers, develops it, and has us back in the NCAAT 4 times in the next 5 years, and we're all looking back thanking the heavens we moved on
We may very well hire some unproven one year wonder as a head coach who is in over his head, loses key players to the portal, and has us floundering for the next 4 years while we wait to make another coaching change, looking back thinking maybe if we had kept Pastner he'd have been able to utilize the core he put together better and learned from the mistakes that led to the two year decline after the Jose and Moses teams.
Right now it's not an obvious mistake. I also don't think it's an obvious right call either.
Is it? Likeable? Yes, but i would not say a great personality like a Bobby Cremins or Mack Brown. Pastner is a really weird dude. Even too weird even for Tech fans.Pastner’s personality is great; his offense is a mess, though
Fleck got hired before NIL was put in place. I am not saying weird guys cannot be successful. Even a weird guy like Fleck can work in this NIL environment if they have a repoir with fan base and have had some level of success. My concern is bringing in a weird dude who not only has the hurdle of trying to jump start the program, but also is trying to connect with our boosters who are persnickety when it comes to who they like enough to invest in the program.Fleck's got back-to-back 9 win seasons at Minnesota, so I guess it works so far?
I'm not saying my personal opinion of personalities is the best proxy. I loved Boeheim and Pastner.
The last time we took a coach Dayton was unloading, we got GregoryDayton fans looking to unload Anthony Grant, perhaps we can get him cheap, like we got our last coach?
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That is fantastic!Potential Kelsey/Richey second round matchup. Winner (or loser?) gets the GT job.
Yeah, seems a nice fellow. I liked everything about him except his coaching. I wish him well.Pastner’s personality is great; his offense is a mess, though
Was hammered for saying the same. It just doesn’t fit the cityIs it? Likeable? Yes, but i would not say a great personality like a Bobby Cremins or Mack Brown. Pastner is a really weird dude. Even too weird even for Tech fans.
Firman will be comfortable playing at UVA’s pace. UVA is missing a key player.Didn’t realize Furman runs an offense that resembles the Princeton. Virginia is going to eat that up with their pack line defense imo. Still would be thrilled with Bob Richey just thought it was interesting.
About the Princeton Offense (stuff I didn't know):
Basketball Princeton Offense, Coach's Clipboard Basketball Coaching
This article discusses basketball's Princeton offense.www.coachesclipboard.net
What Everyone Gets Wrong About The Princeton Offense - Teach Hoops
Coach John Wheeler has 20 years experience with The Princeton Offense and provides a simplified discussion here.teachhoops.com
From the article:
"The Princeton Offense will actually do MORE for your role players because it has the ability to “manufacture” shots that they cannot create on their own. So the advantage of running an offense like that versus one where you hide your role players is this. Now the defense has to stay honest and they cannot as easily target your best player with double teams and stopper defensive philosophies. I actually argue Princeton can actually “FREE” up your best player(s) rather than coup them up.
The Princeton Offense is designed to take the tension out of the game and to help even the playing field especially for the underdogs."
I thought it was pretty common knowledge that the Princeton is what you run when you lack talent.
We just ran the Princeton poorly. We also tried 4-out and 5-out, and ran those poorly. There are a lot of schemes that can relieve the pressure on your players to create their own shots.
Just because we didn’t execute them well doesn’t mean that they’re not wonderful to watch when played well.