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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2004291, member: 488"] You can sell me that Purvis and Brimah were going to confound whichever coach they played for. Facey, though, falls on the coaches. He's about the furthest thing from a feather in the staff's hat from a development standpoint. Even now, as a senior, while at the peak of his game, he's a limited player...and he has way too many tools to still be as limited as he is. Coaching might not be [I]the [/I]biggest problem this season, but it's definitely up there. Forget the player deficiencies - they've looked unprepared and disjointed for much of the season. They're the very antithesis of the SMU team that routinely trounces us (they had 27 assists today in their victory over Houston); the execution is lacking, the fundamentals are poor, and the rotations are jumbled. There are red flags here that are real, even if the results at large can be rationalized by a number of things. The biggest, at least for me, is that we have completed nearly the first five years of Ollie's tenure without developing a single big man - and by that I mean one capable of facilitating the offense, both as a screener and as a passer out of the low post - into a functional chess piece. It's the biggest reason we've rarely generated easy baskets, even during the national championship season. You watch other teams make it look so simple and you wonder how Nolan, Brimah, Olander, Facey, Enoch, and even Miller would have progressed differently in systems that allowed them to breathe a little bit. Ollie's made a philosophical choice to run the offense through the guards and that's fine. Those guards' lives would be a hell of a lot easier, though, if we had big's who could screen and navigate an overload defense. Pardon them for Nolan, Brimah, and Olander if you're inclined. But you look at Facey and you question their ability to develop and you look at Enoch and you question their ability to identify the right player. The staff has gotta do better. [/QUOTE]

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