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Message: [QUOTE="The Funster, post: 2499952, member: 831"] In regards to the OP: Calhoun did not run a complicated offense. Ever. What he did do is tailor the offense to the talent that he had. Pressing/fast breaking. Wing oriented offense with low screens to free up perimeter jumpers. Big oriented offense where we made more free throws than our opponents typically attempted. Yes, there were periods throughout the years where the team was guilty of standing around and watching the man do the scoring, Ray, Rip, etc. but Calhoun always ran designed plays to get everyone moving. Did Calhoun regress a little towards the end offensively? I believe he did but he still had a talented two man backcourt with coaches on the court Kemba, Boat and Bazz to pick up the slack. 1) KO fell down big time with his recruiting. If you want to play NBA iso and pick and roll you have to recruit the pieces to play it. He didn't. 2) Having failed at recruiting he has been unable to implement any kind of offensive philosphy for his team. You can't play hero ball without heroes. 3) The most damning point about KO is plays coming out of timeouts or breaks. He doesn't have any. Jim Calhoun always had effective set plays and his teams always executed them. Jim Calhoun's teams always had a philosophy that they operated under and executed the philosophy. Go back to 99 when Rip the jump shooter became Rip the driver. JC drilled his team to help free Rip to the rim at the most crucial part of the season and it worked. You can't compare KO to JC. It really is like checkers to chess. KO sends his team out with n framework, no matter how loose, to operate under. There is no accountability because no one really knows what they are supposed to do other than try to score. [/QUOTE]

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