Dean Smith

If you want to play D-1 basketball you have to be able to make a layup. Or at least you should have to.

I don't even see it as losing the tip at this point. It's more like we are deferring until the second half.

Which is why I would have him on the right block but lets get him to go through a post progression so he can get the ball deeper. He can start the drop step middle to his strong hand and if they take that away (which is the scouting report right now), double drop back to the baseline. I think he could make hay with that move right now.

I keep saying this and people are probably tired of hear it, but there isn’t one 2-3 or 1-3-1 defense or man for man while I’m at it. There are multiple ways you can chose to rotate in any of these.

That's not an excuse because I don't know what I would need an excuse for. My point was he doesn't play that level of competition on a regular basis. He did shoot well against Duke but one game is not enough of a sample size to determine anything one way or the other. After seeing him play here, and I acknowledge some of his shooting woes was lack of confidence, I don't think it is too big a jump to say that game would be an outlier. It's my opinion but I don't think he could consistently put up those numbers against power 5 teams. But I do take exception on the 10 out of 10 times taking a time out. It depends on your personnel and your opponent. I had team that lived on the break and I'm going to let them push the ball and see what we can get out of our primary or secondary. And Miles did run a play. It was the same play that Palmer scored on during the previous possession. I suppose you could say that he could have taken a timeout and called a different play but that would seem like hindsight to me. Palmer was the first option again and the corner three was the second. I hate to see anyone fired and was not even on the "fire Doc bandwagon", but I was troubled by his teams lack of preparedness for end game situations. I don't think Miles or any of us are perfect. But having the team run the play you want with out a time out for Kansas to change defenses, or prepare to take away certain looks, set up traps or any other unexpected behaviors, that actually is a sign of good coaching, or at least good game preparation. The one game incident that I see as the best example of me ever demonstrating good coaching (you have to look hard) was a tied ballgame, just over two minutes left and I had no timeouts left. I had used them all up being down 17 at the start of the fourth. The point pushed the ball up and we went all the way through secondary, he called motion "nothing but layups." At about the one minute mark the point got them into the closest thing we ran to a delay, took the clock down to the last 15 seconds, made sure the ball was in the hands of the player we wanted and on one word they went into a play we had practice all year as an end of game play. The exact one I would have drawn up if I had a time out. We got a great look at the basket with 3 seconds left but missed the shot. I never said a word (which was unusual for me) the entire time. I just sat and watched because I had done my coaching in practice and they didn't need me at that time. btw - we won in overtime.

Roy Williams “The drop step isn’t a post move. It’s a lay up. Everyone needs to be able drop step both middle and baseline.” Jordy’s move is the jump hook to the middle. There is a counter to that and that’s the double drop or some call it a Barkley Move since he did it so well. Sometimes I think he is settling for the jumphook. Instead of stepping his right foot parallel to the basket, if he tried to get his foot all the way to the front of the rim, this pushes your defender under the basket and you just laying the ball over the front of the rim - or dunk if you can.

No but I think they could add it for $3.

If you want to stay downtown after the game - parking garage. If you want to get out - festival parking. Ask Google maps for Haymarket Park and your there.

Did you see the post right before yours. They have played Duke and TCU. All other competition has not and will not be close to Big 10 level. Can’t we just be happy for someone’s success instead of using it as an excuse to bag on someone?

And we had a center with 3 fouls. If the call stands, they have a center with 3 fouls so it did have longer term effects.

It is possible to be disappointed and dissatisfied with the outcome of a game while at the same time be able to see some positives. That's what every coach does with the game tape. You find the things that need cleaned up and reinforce the positive things their team accomplished.

The reality is Miles is now 0-6 but he was not the reason for this one. We struggled to score in the second half. The times we got our best look at shots and actually scored was after timeouts. He did a very good job with the whiteboard today. Let's say Jordy can make layups or say there are only two egregious calls that went against us instead of the plethora we experienced. Lot ways that game could have have been different today and I'm frustrated it ended that way. I don't know if you are in the camp, I don't pay enough attention to who posts what, but the "Yea! We won and are going to the dance!/Shit! We lost. Got fire MIles now" crowd is really annoying. That is the group I think is the most childish. Instant gratification is their way of life.

Jordy's foul was a dead ball foul, the first two offset each other.

And the same bunch of people are way too quick to turn around when something bad happens and start talking about who we are hiring next when we fire this guy.

Roy Williams never played in College. I have found no connection between good players and good coaches. Some players make good coaches and some do not.

I stopped reading when I got to the part about teams not hedging hard on our ball screens. That’s exactly what we’ve seen all year.

I don't think they make that big of a difference. Copeland is not a big wing so he's taking minutes from both of the two that left if they were still here. Morrow plays if he can keep a good attitude and that helps with some of our rebounding issues. With Copeland and Roby and especially if Morrow stays as in your scenario, Jacobson just isn't getting on the floor which is why I think he left.

I just watched Gonzaga beat Creighton. The Zags have a 6'9 post named Jonathan Williams. That's what Roby could be and much more. Williams is so much more aggressive in going and getting his shot than Roby and I would think he has a much better jump hook (He shoots the one with the rotating shoulders), but I don't know because Roby hasn't been aggressive enough for me to see that shot from him. To me Roby looks more athletic and just needs the confidence to use it and his skills. Williams just took it to Creighton. He ended up with 15 points, 5 rebounds and a block. If Roby averaged those in the Big 10 he's getting postseason honors.

That's what happened against St. Johns. We continued to chuck up (and that is an accurate description) threes no matter that none of them were going in.

My point was there have been games that we had players shoot the lights out. I'm not looking back but I assume there wasn't a lot of assists in the St. John's game because we didn't make a lot of baskets. Whoever has been passing the ball to Gill the last couple of games have been getting an assist.

One of the big differences is this year we have had people be able to put the ball in the basket.

If it was humanly possible or for them to continue shooting that well going forward, almost anything they did at all on offense would be a perfect fit.

And when he was about to get fired at Iowa State there were a ton of people on this board making statements about how poor a coach he was. Different situations for different people and timing is everything.

We don’t have a possession offense. I’m not even sure what a protect the ball offense is, running the shot clock down every possession? If that’s what you mean, we don’t do that. We are trying to run. It’s hard to do that after made baskets and the packline defense we run is designed to not give up easy shots so that means it doesn’t create many turnovers. Go ahead and give your opinion but you should stop making technical comments because you don’t seem to really understand the game on a more than surface level.

I can't tell if you are being facetious or not, but there are other and better ways to train someone to keep the ball chinned. I'm sure it has been mentioned to him before. You can only get so far with negative conditioning and even if you want to go that route, you can get the same effect with one sprint as opposed to the getting to the puking stage.