Motley's

It would have seemed crazy last year, but I wonder if Pope actually took a better job at UK. BYU is loaded with NIL and in the Biq 12 vs SEC. SEC will have more overall revenue, but BYU will be at a competitive advantage to a lot of Big 12 teams.

Well Risley won’t be on any more calls

I think they were trying to create a vibe of four guys in a bar talking bball. Unfortunately, the quality of the conversation was about at that level.

TDH lists him as eligible to return, but when his transfer to IU was announced it said he was a grad student using his 5th season of eligibility.

Goodman interviews like the drunk at the end of the bar at the Elk's lodge

So, do you think Tucker has a better year if he's surrounded by shooters or if he's the focal point of the defense? Geesh

It’s just embarrassing how bad the last regime was.

That's too much to process

It feels so cutting edge and modern to hire a coach with connections in CBB. Next we'll hear the IU athletic department will replace their rotary phones. It's making my head spin.

I heard he was about to sign an IU contract on the set of Breaking Bad, then was stung by a scorpion and took it as an evil omen.

Coming from the Oxy capitol of the world

"Mike Woodson delegates. Google Mike Woodson"

Stevens was never in play: “Let me put a pin in that balloon too,” Grousbeck said when asked about the challenges of staying in the luxury tax. “It’s not the luxury tax bill, it’s the basketball penalties. The new CBA was designed by the league to stop teams from going crazy. Grousbeck went on to describe the various team building basketball penalties involved with being a second apron, something the Celtics have been above for this season and the team’s championship run. While doing so, he dropped a very big hint about Boston’s plans for the upcoming ownership as new ownership is phased in. “The basketball penalties mean that it’s even more of a premium now to have your basketball general manager be brilliant and lucky,” Grousbeck said. “Because you have to navigate because you can’t stay in the second-apron, nobody will, I predict, for the next 40 years of the CBA, no one is going to stay in the second apron more than two years.” “We have Brad Stevens, the reigning Executive of The Year, and thank god we do,” Grousbeck said. “He’s the one who really brought us this championship with his brilliant moves --along with many other people -- but Brad is at the forefront. He’s looking at this and is going to extend our window and make it work. We’ll find out in June or July what we’re going to do.” https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2025/03/wyc-grousbeck-drops-big-hint-on-boston-celtics-offseason-plans-amid-sale.html

That was a joke

He Zoomed in

Coached under Oates, McDermott and D. Hurley. I’d take that

They can always find Woody telling stories in a local barber shop

I think someone got word that we were talking to McDermott. We were, but we were talking to him about DeVries.

Probably didn't phrase it right that he was one WV's two top scorers. They brought in Jayden Stone as a transfer to be a scorer. He averaged 20.8/5.6/2.7 the prior season at Detroit. Scored 30 in Detroit's final Horizon tourney game. Wasn't available all season for WV.

I think there's something to that. I was very high on his hiring, but something just seemed off from the beginning. I think he was handcuffed with not turning over the roster. I've always wondered what would have happened if he could have brought McKinley Wright.

I think the most notable thing is the records the season before they got the job. Gregory was 22-14 in 2010-11. Archie was 20-13 in 2011-12. Medved was 17-17 at Drake in 2017-18, DeVries was 24-10 in 2018-19. WV was 9-23 in 2023-24, DeVries was 19-13 in 24-25, despite losing his two top scorers to injury.

For the DeVries is Archie crowd: Indiana asked, for example, whether a head coach successful in a certain job had inherited any of that success, or built it from scratch. There was a method behind that: The university was burned when it hired Archie Miller in 2017, then perceived to be a promising young coach, only for Miller to flop in Bloomington after four years without an NCAA Tournament appearance. Decker’s number crunching picked up on the fact that Miller had more or less sustained success at Dayton, rather than built it — Brian Gregory won 97 games in his final four seasons coaching the Flyers, before handing off to Miller, who won 90 in his first four years there. DeVries compared favorably in that analysis. Drake had won just 40 games in the four years before he arrived, compared to 95 in his first four years. His work at West Virginia covered a smaller sample size but showed similar results. In his first season in Morgantown, DeVries’ team won 10 more games than in the previous season — it was the largest single-season turnaround in program history — six more in Big 12 play, and the Mountaineers showed demonstrable improvement in defensive metrics in particular.

Can't offend The King

Not if you look at Ballo’s career stats. His FT % was better than last year, but just back to his career average. Assists were up slightly, but shooting % and rebounds were down. Scoring average the same. https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/oumar-ballo-1.html

He was on Dolson’s list last season when still at Drake