100% - they ran through the tourney up to Uconn, won all games but Tenn by double digits, had that Tenn game in hand. They were clearly the next best team and far better than the rest of the field.
The one time he made the final 4 he got smoked in the title game against Hurley.
I think Painter is a great coach but the bolded is comedy, I guess you're adding a title to every coach's resume that lost a title game then
I'm not sure Alabama couldn't have knocked them off that tournament.
I think you really have not watched Furphy in his games in Australia nor U19 nor when he played for us. He has moxie, scrappy defender, charges in to get a rebound and get fouled. He is a 2/3 not just a shooting guard.
Where in that post did I say he was Hurley?
Read the post again.
Reading comprehension is hard.
Well he got there against Illinois and clanged them both
Unlucky because his best team ever (obviously championship worthy) ran into the best team ever. How is that not unlucky?
Because luck had nothing to do with it. He just lost.
Demary / Ball / Landrew / Transfer / Reibe
Lol @ "gifted" , this thread has jumped the shark
You think he or any one else thought he’d become that dominant? Yes gifted. Someone THAT dominant is always a gift. Hurley was gifted Clingan as well. Recruiting is a crap shoot at times
Yea we don't view recruiting the same, I'm going to give more credit to the coach who recruited and offered the barely top 500 recruit and invested in his development. Based off of his track record he's a power conference coach that doesn't just recruit off of a list of players that everyone else says is good, he trusts his own evaluation.
Every thing you said is true. He still got lucky. You believe he evaluated Edey to be THAT good? It’s okay to say getting a guy who ends up being that good has some modicum of luck involved.
That’s not what “gifted” is. You used the wrong word.
It's the fifth ranked engineering school in the country. It's not exactly in the middle of nowhere either, it's about an hour from Indianapolis and about two hours from Chicago.
How about one coach pulling together a roster with limited funds, coaching them, building strategies. It's not about a one game situation. It's about building a winning team.
I'll give Painter a lot more credit getting "lucky" with Edey (recruited/developed) than I would Hurley backing into Spencer. Can anyone say Nick Timberlake? Give Painter his due. They are both excellent coaches. I'm sure Hurley would tell you the same.
Yes Hurley got lucky he missed out on Timberlake and got Spencer.
