A simple story.
Duke was down 23 in the second 1/2 playing man to man.
Coach K switches to a pressing 1-1-3 and then to a 2-3 and then back to man to man. The pressing 1-1-3 changed the game completely, momentum, pace..everything shifted.
Duke has great athletes and on paper there would be no reason ever to not play M2M, they are more talented than 99.5% of the team they ever play...but sometimes you need to change things up.
Millers refusal to adjust and move out of his mid-major box will ultimately lead to his demise here at ARIZONA. Dook can suck it as far as I'm concerned, but they are who they are because Coach K is willing to do what is necessary to win.
Forget the fact that duke has the most talented team in the country by far. Our best player couldn't sniff playing time at duke.
Quote from: FlagCat on February 16, 2019, 10:10:08 AM
Millers refusal to adjust and move out of his mid-major box will ultimately lead to his demise here at ARIZONA. Dook can suck it as far as I'm concerned, but they are who they are because Coach K is willing to do what is necessary to win.
Exactly.
I came into this season with little real knowledge about how Miller coaches. After watching and observing it's clear his rigidity as a coach is his biggest detriment. It's very apparent based on the makeup of last year vs this year's teams and his inability to change based on different style players. Add in the program issues with ethics and probably coaching staff turnover and you get the worst UA team in over 30 years. Oh yeah, the repeat OND's that care more about their NBA career' than the A on their chest isn't helping. It's ok though because the boosters all back Miller.
Even last year's PAC12 championship was against a very weak conference. And we struggled throughout the year.
Quote from: 2012Cat on February 16, 2019, 10:15:21 AM
Forget the fact that duke has the most talented team in the country by far. Our best player couldn't sniff playing time at duke.
I bet Coach K could do something with Randolph, Jeter (obviously) and maybe Williams... they would not start, but I bet they'd develop into consistent role players
Quote from: 2012Cat on February 16, 2019, 10:15:21 AM
Forget the fact that duke has the most talented team in the country by far. Our best player couldn't sniff playing time at duke.
So true, Jeter couldn't buy any pt at puke, yet here he is our most important player. Things need to change.
Quote from: BearDown93 on February 16, 2019, 10:19:31 AM
I came into this season with little real knowledge about how Miller coaches. After watching and observing it's clear his rigidity as a coach is his biggest detriment. It's very apparent based on the makeup of last year vs this year's teams and his inability to change based on different style players. Add in the program issues with ethics and probably coaching staff turnover and you get the worst UA team in over 30 years. Oh yeah, the repeat OND's that care more about their NBA career' than the A on their chest isn't helping. It's ok though because the boosters all back Miller.
Even last year's PAC12 championship was against a very weak conference. And we struggled throughout the year.
The boosters do not all back Miller...there are many that are grumbling to their friends and one very prominent one in particular who was instrumental in Miller's hiring and another who is very close with Olson. I know, in both cases, from someone who has first hand knowledge.
Heeke's comments about 'anything said to the contrary' were in direct response to discussions one of them had with Robbins.
Miller is being publicly supported and that is the right choice for Heeke and the University as long as they maintain his innocence. But after we loose 3 or 4 more games and are mercifully eliminated from the PAC12 tournament early... things are gonna change. Either the defense of Miller will be unqualified and ramped up or he will resign or be fired. Boosters are going to demand some sort of affirmative action, one way or the other, instead of ambiguous B.S. we've had for a year and 1/2.
I understand the need to make a stop on D, but we almost never make the stop. How many times have we LOST down the stretch because we could not make a couple of baskets when we had the lead? TOO many times. We need adjustments to be competitive and CSM does not adjust period. Is it some kind of pride? Either way we need to be able to change up the D and when we have the athletic and depth advantage we need to be able to press some. When you are down late and need to speed the game up the press is needed so badly. We just don't adjust period. with the two 7 footers last year we should have been a zone team 50% of the time. With no size inside we need to speed it up into a pressing game and switch it up by dropping back into a zone to change up the D.
Quote from: Little George on February 16, 2019, 12:05:29 PM
I understand the need to make a stop on D, but we almost never make the stop. How many times have we LOST down the stretch because we could not make a couple of baskets when we had the lead? TOO many times. We need adjustments to be competitive and CSM does not adjust period. Is it some kind of pride? Either way we need to be able to change up the D and when we have the athletic and depth advantage we need to be able to press some. When you are down late and need to speed the game up the press is needed so badly. We just don't adjust period. with the two 7 footers last year we should have been a zone team 50% of the time. With no size inside we need to speed it up into a pressing game and switch it up by dropping back into a zone to change up the D.
Lute was master at this... we saw a lot of different things over the years. 1-3-1's, box and 1's, the defense we played on Iverson's Georgetown team I have never seen before or since - a box and 1 but the 1 was on the ball. So we switched constantly and double teamed anyone who had the ball, except Iverson, we let him do whatever he wanted. Iverson got 40, but we won handily 91-81 vs. the #5 team and the #1 player in the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/25/sports/college-basketball-aching-iverson-scores-40-but-georgetown-falls.html
Did anybody watch the Dook game? Louisville hit the brakes and held the ball until the last second on every possession in the final 12 minutes. They pissed the game away. It wasn't the defensive change; Coach K primarily runs a zone because his players are too lazy to play man to man and he saves their energy so they can score and impress scouts (rather than showing effort on both sides of the ball).
Credit to Dook because they put on the full court press. That was the only significant change that impacted UL's composure.
Also, Lute's 1-3-1 was the reason that he blew wins at the end of his career. When he started implementing zone defense, we'd end up with Gardner attempting to cover big men under the basket. I was baffled when he kept trying to run that stupid zone because he had a great man to man structure for years.
Quote from: KansasCityCats on February 16, 2019, 12:30:55 PM
Did anybody watch the Dook game? Louisville hit the brakes and held the ball until the last second on every possession in the final 12 minutes. They pissed the game away. It wasn't the defensive change; Coach K primarily runs a zone because his players are too lazy to play man to man and he saves their energy so they can score and impress scouts (rather than showing effort on both sides of the ball).
Credit to Dook because they put on the full court press. That was the only significant change that impacted UL's composure.
Also, Lute's 1-3-1 was the reason that he blew wins at the end of his career. When he started implementing zone defense, we'd end up with Gardner attempting to cover big men under the basket. I was baffled when he kept trying to run that stupid zone because he had a great man to man structure for years.
We ran more 1-3-1 in the 1996 - 1997 season than any other...JT was the baseline guy, he got more minutes there than spelling Bibby or Simon.
We ran a little 1-3-1 with Hassan Adams, when we had no true center, but not nearly as much.