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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3142002, member: 2117"] Pretty much disagree with just about every point on here. This past season Mississippi State was 2nd in the country in scoring, just behind the offensive juggernaut that was Notre Dame. Isolate just his conference scoring and he's still at 81 ppg, good for top 10 and ahead of almost all other programs that get credit for being good offensive teams if you isolate their conference play. Overall they were 5th in FG% and 9th in 3pt% nationally. His teams don't run a ton of passing dominated set plays, but they take good shots and ultimately get the ball to the right players. He's also utilized his quick guards very well, putting them in isolation situations where they can get their own shot and score. He did it for Johnson/Vivians/William last year, this season it was Danberry and Howard. It's not flashy, doesn't rack up assists, and doesn't look like what most other top programs do, but it's still good offense. 2 years ago before McCowan came into her own, his team utilized much more screening from their bigs. They'll use more screening this upcoming year without McCowan's presence inside. In regards to McCowan, I highly suggest you watch any footage of her from 2016 or 2017 and compare that to her play the past 2 years. She has improved by leaps and bounds as much as any player I've ever seen. She was destroyed by Kalani Brown as a sophomore but finished with more accolades than Kalani this year. Offensively she is a completely different player than she was 2 years ago. Her FG% went from 49% to 57% to 60% to 66% as a senior. Her FT percentage went from 63% as a junior to 76% as a senior. Her scoring went from 6.6ppg to 8.7 to 18.2 to 18.4. No, she doesn't use skyhooks or have a sweet midrange jumper, but she is much better at finishing through contact, passing out of a double team and finishing around the basket than she was her first 3 seasons. When was AEH underutilized? She played well against Oregon offensively (the whole team did), but they couldn't stop Oregon's offense. I agree with your statement regarding the pick and roll and that is a knock on Vic, especially since the same thing happened in round 1. And regarding your last statement about how he'd handle Geno's roster....you do realize that Vic's most highly recruited player was someone who couldn't get off the bench at UCONN? UCONN had three former HS POYs on its roster, a 3x All-American in Collier, plus 2 other top 5 recruits in ONO/Dangerfield. Vic had 1 HS All-American. I get that people find praise for Vic to be redundant or annoying, but he's clearly one of the very best coaches in the country. The job he's done the past 3 seasons of developing players and putting together title contending teams matches up favorably with anyone. [/QUOTE]

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