jbix80
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I'm not really a Wright fan. I can actually get very frustrated watching him at times. I just found it interesting that their stats are pretty similar during their sophomore years.
I'm not really a Wright fan. I can actually get very frustrated watching him at times. I just found it interesting that their stats are pretty similar during their sophomore years.
I can’t remember how much his shot improved over the years, but his form wasn’t very good in this 2002 game.
I get all of that, but lost in all of that was that was at it's completion one of the better seasons in GT basketball history and even now we don't remember it as such and the clouds around the program robbed us as fans (and we robbed ourselves) of just enjoying it while it was happening. We have played in a grand total of 7 ACC Championship games, it was one of them. We've won an NCAAT game in only 11 seasons, it was one of them. We've had 3 wins in a season against UNC and Duke only a couple of times and it was one of them. We've had 5 total top 5 NBA picks, that team had one of them. Etc, etc. Yes, we lost a sad game to UGa and the team stumbled at the end of the ACC season and maybe could have achieved even more ... but damn, it also had a fair number of highs we simply ignored as they were happening. I think the vast majority of fans if polled would remember the Okogie/Lammers team and the run in the N.I.T much more fondly, despite the objective fact that 09-10 was a much better team and season. The poisonous effect of expectations really can hurt us from just enjoying what we have when we have it.
Just as an example ... January 9th, 2010 we played a nationally televised game against Duke, who was ranked #5 in the country at that point and went on to win the National Championship. We beat them, and did it by out executing them down the stretch. It should really be one remembered as a great win that we still post about from time to time, but that entire year has seemingly been thrown into the trash can of history.
We have won 1 game against a top 5 team since then (the home win over Virginia in 2016 ... oddly enough another January 9th, 2pm tip-off). They don't happen often and stuff like that should be enjoyed in the moment, no matter the scenario.
I just ate lunch. Don't make me laugh that hard at the truth.Ish could dribble two consecutive times without throwing into media row
He's averaging 19ppg in France, living in the Burgundy wine region. Led the French top league in scoring and was the MVP of the league last year.Zack Peacock was a sneaky good player.
What do you think he's making over there? $$$He's averaging 19ppg in France, living in the Burgundy wine region. Led the French top league in scoring and was the MVP of the league last year.
Life and basketball has treated him well.
I wasn't thrilled with the hire but I tend to agree with your logic. He was a guy with a good to very good pedigree that was being eaten alive in a difficult "political" situation in Memphis. I think MBob thought he could be a good front man/recruiting closer with his energy and "charm" and worked hard to backfill with a strong assistant group. The first year says there was at least a decent argument for the logic.
My personal opinion, from afar and with no data or information to back it up, is that CJP still needed a lot of "adult supervision" from an AD and needed an AD to be a lot more hands on than most like or want to do. And when he lost MBob, Todd likely didn't take the same tact. So less of presence that would tell CJP to keep someone like Bell at a further arm's length than you are. And less of an adult in the room approach to the LaBarrie decision and less hands on approach to hiring the assistants to replace the hand picked ones that left (as would be expected if they were that good). I admit I don't know the financial parameters given CJP for these hires but it seems to me that we certainly missed MBob's hands on approach to the assistants.
Now what I described is above and beyond the way most ADs think and operate - and frankly most coaches would push back hard if an AD tries to be as hands on as I describe. But if you are going to go the young/out of the box/fix a career path approach that we were taking with CJP (or any other out of the box idea) then the AD has to engage and play that role. I am not sure that happened but again am just watching from afar.
Wwould have "bagged" a ton of recruits.Capel would have killed it recruiting at GT. I'm personally biased there, I'll admit ... but damn, would have been a terrific hire.
When we called the timeout before Will Bynum made the game winning layup , Hewitt asked the players “what y’all wanna do?” A good coach in that situation knows what to do & draws up a play ! I don’t think Hewitt was as bad as some think & yes he could recruit , but go back & look at his offenses & look at how he did at mason .. horribleIt's not hard to explain. Apparently Jarrett Jack coached all his successful teams. The teams before Jack arrived and going back to Sienna too, I guess.
I wanted KeatsI fully realize CJP was option number 5 or likely more. Out of the box was pretty much a necessity by that time in the process. My point was when you hire out of the box you have to be willing to support out of the box levels.
Like Vad I was high on Capel but would have been happy with Keats. Not sure if he was ever part of the process. Capel I assume we didn’t offer enough to get him out of Durham.
When we called the timeout before Will Bynum made the game winning layup , Hewitt asked the players “what y’all wanna do?” A good coach in that situation knows what to do & draws up a play ! I don’t think Hewitt was as bad as some think & yes he could recruit , but go back & look at his offenses & look at how he did at mason .. horrible
Speaking of Hewitt, the 2002 game against UVA is on ESPNU. Akins was a senior, Elder and Mohammed were Freshman.
I’m not necessarily saying this is the case, but does anyone think Wright could turn into a Muhammad type player? Muhammed’s shot was rough, but his athleticism was superior. I can’t remember how much his shot improved over the years, but his form wasn’t very good in this 2002 game. Obviously, his explosion was his gift.
When we called the timeout before Will Bynum made the game winning layup , Hewitt asked the players “what y’all wanna do?” A good coach in that situation knows what to do & draws up a play ! I don’t think Hewitt was as bad as some think & yes he could recruit , but go back & look at his offenses & look at how he did at mason .. horrible
Wwould have "bagged" a ton of recruits.