Not everything needs to be evaluated vis-a-vis Jim Calhoun, who was one of the top five, ever. One can still be a very good coach without coming close to his accomplishments.
Can someone translate please
Are you sure JC didn't win it in 1990?
You're probably better off not knowing what he's trying to say.
He has some Justin Lewis in him. I could see him making waves by 23-24, if, he can get his body and his three together.
Exactly, he's one of the best ever and he never won the Naismith Coach of the Year award once. That's how much those awards have to do with being a great coach.
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He did not, which is surprising because years like 1990 are exactly how you win those awards. He was AP Coach of the Year in 1990.
It's definitely got some Swamp Yankee in it.
Not sure how they put CFJ and Gaffney over Newton; makes no sense at all and makes you question their entire ranking system.I thought this was interesting:
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I’m not sure how they come up with the ranking number.
Excuse me stewardess, I speak Jive.
Yeah for the most part I've found the rankings pretty useful but there's some pretty strange ones. Haven't been able to figure out why Newton is so low and then a guy like Dwon Odom who I've watched 20 times and seen nothing impressive is a top 20 5* transferI thought this was interesting:
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I’m not sure how they come up with the ranking number.
That's totally fair; I misread your earlier post as saying "he's not very good" instead of "he's good but not very good," which I now see was the context you intended.
Floyd locke and carter arent wings… they are guards. Hopkins is a wing.
Team quality through plus/minus and recruit rankings play into it. I think sometimes team quality may have too large an impact.
I am in fact a clown, but my dislike was not for the Cooley/Calhoun comment. Just the idea that making fun of PC is beneath us, it's always fun to belittle and make fun of a rival
I think that from looking at this that the model seems to take into account team success when you are on the floor and does a poor job of separating players, for reference these rankings had the top 4 players in the big east all on villanova and 7 of the top 15 in the conference.....This isnt to say that the rankings are "bad" i just think it overshows team success as compared to individuals. UConn with gaffney on the floor was better than ECU with Newton but I think that where they switch places this metric would not bear out
I'm all for making fun of a rival. But the puffing of our chests and attempted smackdowns of Providence look pretty silly rn imo because they beat us and had a demonstrably better season, and their coach has done better than ours.
I think you'll learn pretty quickly that RJ Cole was a blessing for last year's team. He was a phenomenal player that should've been in POY consideration. And he masked a LOT of your offensive deficiencies by breaking guys down off the dribble and scoring at all three levels. So.... I'm not sure where you're coming up with the fact that you were missing the same type of player that he was.
Then it sounds like you aren't into making fun of a rival
Yeah they had a great season and Cooley has done a pretty good job there. I just don't think that takes away from the fact that expectations are different at UConn and all those pining for Cooley now would be severely disappointed if he had the same resume and was our coach
What are you talking about? Cole and Newton are completely different players. Cole did most of his scoring off a pick and rolls not taking guys off the dribble.
No, I'm in favor of doing so intelligently.
