BGleas

On the UK thing, I loved the part of the game where Isiah Briscoe went on a personal 6 minute game of 1-on-1, during which the announcers were going on and on about how he's the rare kind of guard that cares so much more about getting his teammates involved as opposed to his own scoring. He literally took every shot for 4-6 minutes without ever passing and waving off anyone that even tried to set a screen for him.

Regardless of whether it's Holt or Hanner, and they could/should both get time there, the point is we're both hoping we actually play big with a more natural 4 and Williams at the 3.

I'd argue that Holt plays bigger than Hanner.

That's exactly what he should be doing this summer, even if we hadn't gotten Bryant.

I just hope they actually play together in the same lineup at time, meaning I hope we go big a good amount next year.

I know Crean will never do it, but I think the teams best chance is to play big. Use Davis/Holt at their natural 4 position and bring RoJo off the bench in a platoon with Yogi and JBJ. It will never happen though.

I live here, and one of my good friends is a die-hard Terp fan. He's been telling me for a couple months they were going to get him.

They also have a 6'8" transfer, I think from Georgia Tech, that averaged about 11 and 8 before transferring to Maryland.

Sorry, didn't mean to take this off track. Back to Bryant. Is he still supposed to make a decision this month?

Agree on screening off the ball. While JBJ had a good freshmen season, he could be a monster if we actually did things to get him open looks, same with Hulls before him.

I think we did run some new offensive sets this season, so I'm sure some of that was watching UConn tape and I think he mentioned Villanova too. We also went to that man/switch to zone defense. So there were some, I guess I'd call them tweaks to his system. My post was more in reference to larger philosophical changes. For example, not trying to force the 2013-14 team to run, which only magnified the turnover issues. Bo Ryan allowing his last two teams to be more offensive minded and run more, etc. Maybe IU pressing with this years team.

There's lots of things to gripe about in terms of X's and O's, etc., but this is my high level, overarching gripe of Crean. I prefer coaches that alter their system to the talent on their roster, not force their talent to conform to their system. Like you, my opinion is Crean is that latter. Look at WVU this year. Huggins said after a couple of workouts last summer he decided he needed to full-court press with this group. While it took him deep into his career, Bo Ryan has changed his style the last two seasons and it's paid off big time. Coach K has won national titles playing several different ways. The 2010 team was not a typical Duke team. It won't be popular in these parts, but I've seen Bill Belicek change his teams style from game-to-game and even half-to-half based on what is best for his talent to attack the opponents weaknesses. I just prefer a coach that's willing and able to adjust his style/system.

Just watching Remy yesterday, I think we can safely say a senior Remy would have been a fairly big upgrade over Stan Robinson. Equal, if not better on defense, and a much better offensive player. He's not a guy you go to on offense, but he doesn't turn it over as much, is a better ball handler and can knock down the open 3.

That Orlando job is open again.

Dick Vitale's charitable work is great! He deserves a ton of credit for that. Otherwise, he is a fraud! His constant defense of coaches is complete b.s. He holds himself up as a bastion of integrity in college basketball and waxes poetic about student-athletes and academics, then praises guys like Calipari, Boeheim, Calhoun, etc. You can't take anything he says about any coach seriously.

I watched a lot of this game, and to be honest other than the UK tourney game last year I haven't watched a ton of WSU the last few years. Well, I came away really impressed. Marshall wants to play an uptempo style, but also puts a great emphasis on defense. I saw a guy like Ron Baker putting a ton of pressure on the ball defensively, and while Baker is somewhat athletic, is he any more athletic than guys like Troy, JBJ, RoJo, Stan, etc? I was really impressed with Marshall and WSU.

I feel like every time I see Maryland on TV they're playing at home.

Yogi does draw a lot of hand-checks off the dribble, but does not get the same respect when he's at the rim IMO. I realize his height doesn't help, but there's a lot of times he gets body contact and knocked to the ground and doesn't get to the line.

Especially when JBJ, and even Yogi a lot of the time, get very little respect. JBJ is constantly getting knocked down on his drives and hardly ever gets the call.

This might have been the worst 30+ seconds of coaching I've ever seen.

Am I being bitter, or should that have been over the back? Had his forearm all over the LSU guys neck.

That was atrocious.

This isn't meant to excuse the end of the '12-'13 season as I think we absolutely stumbled and missed an opportunity, but I agree with you on the lottery pick thing, especially for the year we're discussing. The 2013 NBA Draft is going to go down as one of the worst in recent memory. There really might not be a single All-Star in the bunch. Yes, that does matter. It means the talent gap between 2 or 4 in that draft isn't that wide compared to maybe 6 and 9, or even 12 and 15. Take the 2003 draft (LeBron, Wade, Melo, Bosh) or the Eric Gordon year, and you're potentially getting franchise/multiple All-Star guys at 2 and 4. There's a much larger drop off in talent after that. It's not the same as having two lottery picks in a weak draft, the talent gap in the weak draft isn't nearly as far. You pair Derek Rose and Kevin Love on a college team and you have a much larger gap of talent compared to other college teams that year, than pairing VO and Zeller in 2013.

What a collapse by NW. They gave that game to Maryland on a platter.

I care more about the standings. Would rather have separation from MD.