My question mark is whether Ollie's NBA style one on one, guards have the freedom to create individually philosophy can translate at the college level. I'm skeptical for a few reasons - but first and foremost because college kids aren't NBA kids and you need a very specific kind of kid to be able to run in that system. The second thing, is that you have to keep your recruiting at an incredibly high level at the guard position to do that - and expecting Gilberts and Adams type players every year isn't realistic. The third problem is that if you're a big or a scoring wing, i'm not sure how excited i'd be about coming to a program where everything is going to depend on someone else's creativity. The other part of me says that the one and done type kids might see some success here and say - 'hey, this guy is running a system that's going to help me at the next level' and might be tempted. Who knows. I'm more skeptical than I am optimistic, but nowhere near to the degree that i'd dismiss it outright. I'm willing to give it a shot.
This. His offensive system is incredibly frustrating to watch. Maybe it's because we've watched it run to the point of futility without adjustments. I can appreciate his vision, but the lack of adjustments and a back of plan is concerning. It doesn't help that we haven't had the proper personnel to execute his vision, but he should at least have an idea of what kind of adjustment the opposing team is going to make at half time and be ready to counter that. I have to wonder if they hold back certain parts of the playbook until the team can show that they've got a handle on the earlier chapters.[/QUOTE]
That would be my take. JC divided the season into thirds.
No matter how experienced his teams were he always insisted on developing defense first. It was his trademark. He knew teams could go cold on offense. Defense, particularly great defense, was far more predictable to be consistent.
With his more experienced teams he’d implement various offensive sets in the first third. Less experienced teams the process started second third. Initially he kept offense sets simple.
KO is following JC’s playbook imo. The strength and experience resides with the guards. As other players develop (hopefully) the coaches will implement other options.
