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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2497862, member: 488"] Terrific post overall. I feel like there needs to be a marker between pre-2006 and post-2006 as it relates to the Calhoun era. Post '06 Calhoun had two teams (granted he missed portions of two of those seasons) that ranked 171st and 96th in adjusted offense. In the KenPom era, Calhoun offenses had an average rank of 23.2 through 2006 and 61.1 after that. 61.1 sounds like heaven compared to where we are now, but your premise is correct. What KO is trying to install now is the same action that Calhoun lived with - floppy action with big's screening for the wings and high ball screens. Our players aren't good enough. It's recruiting, it's player development, it's talent identification. Hard to see where Ollie hasn't gotten an F on all three. The current schemes are not bad in a vacuum but they are not effectively tailored to the ability of the players. I made that claim last year more so than this year, but it brings up another Ollie trait he may have inherited from Calhoun: stubbornness. He wants to play his way with recruits that may not be able to do that. On that front, x's and o's have been a problem. Other coaches would take this group of players and twist the ideology. Other coaches would more effectively simulate the reads in practice that their schemes require you to make in games. He's either running the wrong stuff or hasn't given them the right tools to run the right stuff. But I agree. x's and o's are the last of the problems. If you were a hall of famer and sat down with Kevin Ollie and talked basketball, you'd come away thinking what he said made a lot of sense. It's more complicated than that which is why countless number of guys have not made the transition from player to coach and from NBA coach to college coach and from assistant to head coach. That shot Kemba hit against Pitt? We'd get that shot in the current offense. All of the shots Daniels and Napier and Giffey hit in 2014? We'd get those too. "He doesn't run offense" or "guys go 1 on 4" is overly simplistic. [/QUOTE]

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