Why is Luke such a basketball genius? I read that he played in high school, coached AAU in college, but the guy seems to be heads and shoulders above other coaches when it comes to offense. Is he just a lot smarter than the average coach? Trying to get a read of why he's so successful.
Luke Murray Genius?
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Nobody will really know if he is a great head coach or coaching genius until he becomes a successful head coach. All we have now is speculation. There have been many great coordinators who have flopped as head coaches.
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He sounds like a guy obsessed with putting in the work. Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
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I believe its genetics.
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He looks to the European game and gets his ideas from there. There's a reason the NBA keeps drafting Euro kids and the seem to be so offensively skilled. It's the way they approach the game. I don't think he's a genius or smarter than most other coaches, I think he's just out on the cutting edge of a trend that will continue to evolve in the U.S. game.
Soccer went through something like this when a Dutchman Johan Cruyff brought his approach to Barcelona.
Luke is smart, he loves the game, and he works hard.
He found a good coaching partner that would implement his ideas, and just as importantly, who is a proven successful teacher that emphasizes details and has a high standard for work ethic. The sets wouldn't be nearly as good if we didn't drill them to perfection and move at such a brisk pace in practice that we could add so much into the playbook. Dan also had to recruit the right guys that are able to absorb and retain that much information and then execute it.
He found a good coaching partner that would implement his ideas, and just as importantly, who is a proven successful teacher that emphasizes details and has a high standard for work ethic. The sets wouldn't be nearly as good if we didn't drill them to perfection and move at such a brisk pace in practice that we could add so much into the playbook. Dan also had to recruit the right guys that are able to absorb and retain that much information and then execute it.
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Really? My understanding is that our offensive rebirth coincided with him arriving at UConn. Is this wrong? My understanding is that DH chose to implement his offensively philosophy, which in turn impacted the players they recruited. Is any of this wrong? I do not how one quantifies being a genius, but I can tell you this, Coach Murray's work product and DNA is all over this program.
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Hope he stays, maybe he won’t want to be a head coach. Wishful thinking.
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Why is he so successful?
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Part of his genius may have been identifying Hurley’s potential, piggybacking and staying the course. Where much of Luke’s genius is hearsay and assumed, you can see Hurley’s vividly in his interviews, breaking down the XOs and how he runs a practice.
I don’t think it’s nearly as hard to identify new ways of doing, it’s much harder to teach, motivate, influence and lead kids to execute. And to build culture - it’s a different skill.
We shall see if he’s HC material on that end or if he’s more the Ernie Adams of the operation. We saw a number of “smart” guys leave Belichek to only fall on their face time and time again. Leading men is the harder part of the job.
I don’t think it’s nearly as hard to identify new ways of doing, it’s much harder to teach, motivate, influence and lead kids to execute. And to build culture - it’s a different skill.
We shall see if he’s HC material on that end or if he’s more the Ernie Adams of the operation. We saw a number of “smart” guys leave Belichek to only fall on their face time and time again. Leading men is the harder part of the job.
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The advantage that Luke has given us with his Euro influence is not permanent. We are just early to the party in how we've incorporated it and why we are successful executing it. I'm sure there have been programs looking at how we do things, why we've basically cruised to 2 straight titles and how we run our offense and the copycats will start to pop up.
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Kid is a genius.
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Nah. Luke isnt funny at all.
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Basically anybody can draw up fancy plays, the trick is getting the kids to execute them and to make the right reads consistently. And a lot of that is recruiting.
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Personally I think without Hurley this success doesn’t happen. I’m sure Kimani is a crucial ingredient in the secret sauce too, but I think Luke’s complex plays don’t work the way we see them working without the Head Coach instilling this cult-like devotion to being perfect in every way.
Without the full summer of working out and the intensity Hurley demands the kids buy in with, I don’t think the team knows the plays well enough or runs them hard enough for it to work the way it does.
Without the full summer of working out and the intensity Hurley demands the kids buy in with, I don’t think the team knows the plays well enough or runs them hard enough for it to work the way it does.
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He's a voracious studier and learner, and isn't afraid to apply concepts he's learned elsewhere to college basketball for the first time.
I noticed the second he came on board things started to change.
from RuffRuff: Part of his genius may have been identifying Hurley’s potential, piggybacking and staying the course. Where much of Luke’s genius is hearsay
The best Consiglieres like to whisper in the ear of "da Boss", make it seem like it was his idea, stay in the background and help get everyone moving in the right direction. My guess is that is Luke to a certain degree, able to communicate to Dan and the staff, and get it across to the kids as well, with Dans fingerprints over everything. Good partnership(obviously) Don't know as much about Kimani, but Tom Moores influences can't be understated. Unreal staff.
from RuffRuff: Part of his genius may have been identifying Hurley’s potential, piggybacking and staying the course. Where much of Luke’s genius is hearsay
The best Consiglieres like to whisper in the ear of "da Boss", make it seem like it was his idea, stay in the background and help get everyone moving in the right direction. My guess is that is Luke to a certain degree, able to communicate to Dan and the staff, and get it across to the kids as well, with Dans fingerprints over everything. Good partnership(obviously) Don't know as much about Kimani, but Tom Moores influences can't be understated. Unreal staff.
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All of that could be true but it doesn't guarantee he will be a great head coach. Time will tell. If all of the recent success is just the result of offensive philosophy (it's not) everyone can and will copy it and that schematic advantage will fade.
Alot of the success is Danny Hurley getting inside the heads of his players and bringing out the best in them. Not everyone has that gift.
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It's also a lesson in being around the right people who will challenge you and embrace you. Would he have been this successful at Louisville? Probably not, and that has nothing to do with intelligence or work ethic.
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