DooleyBull06

There’s still rules?

My two cents on the Adams/Chatman debate is this…yes they had a lot on their plate. And yes the team wasn’t good around them. The team couldn’t pick up the slack where Adams and Chatman lacked. I have no issues with Chatman. He was on the court for a year, was a volume scorer, maybe he bought it and maybe he didn’t…whatever. The season was lost a couple weeks into conference play. My issue with Adams was that he was here multiple seasons across multiple coaches and never truly developed. Never became the go to guy we thought he could be. I’m not calling them lazy just saying or realizing that at the end of the day we had a team of rotation/role players.

I can see your points. Maybe he wants to change on the fly. And it’s an easy thing to do when we sucked last season lol. If there’s one thing for sure is that UCONN and their style has won back to back. What makes UConn great is they defend but offensively they can bang inside and make 3s. Unlike Purdue who is too Eddy oriented and Bama who is live or die by the 3, UConn can do both within a game. So why not copy that.

Who knows what he is building at this point. One thing I wanted to come out with from last season was an identity. I don’t think we have one. We hashtag all in grit but there were few times I saw a gritty effort. Being interchangeable is vital in today’s game I agree there. Tough defense sure but I don’t think we had good defenders last season. As for the attacking the rim, we shot way too many 3s for a team that shot horribly from 3. Maybe if we attacked the rim more and focused on quality 2 point shots we would’ve been more competitive.

For some perspective on recruiting locally and NIL budgeting…not saying we are Arkansas but saying that the philosophy of NIL and recruiting NYS is important

18 million dollar buyout. We will see how badly Kentucky wants him. Question is: Does Nate want Kentucky and all the baggage of expectations that come with it?

So let me get this straight…he passed up scholarship offers to go play for Arkansas St as a preferred walk on? Either he is getting some nice NIL money or he will transfer after next season when he realizes he’s been riding the bench all season. This seems like a fishy way to circumvent roster restrictions. But I agree with the premise that we should be recruiting locally, especially if that player is the wny all time scorer.

I’ll take the over on UB mentions. At least 2 I say

Deal with Clingan by doing what we did to Ayton when Oats was here. They will likely make Clingan defend in space. Maybe he gets lazy and commits an early foul or two. I’m sure Oats has a plan. Just a matter of execution. But to me spread wise with the way they shoot 3s, I don’t see the blowout.

I actually think this spread is too high and Vegas is trying to trick people by capitalizing off of UCONN’s dominance. The 3 ball is a neutralizer and we know Bama can shoot it. I may be wrong but I don’t think Bama gets blown out in this one.

While it’s surprising that this player enter the portal or that player…Coach Burke has seemingly become a pro at navigating the portal. She has made over the roster what 3 times in the two years she’s been here? How she can navigate the portal is something that will make her an attractive candidate for a bigger school.

Same with Hodgson.

He was one of the candidates that I liked a lot last cycle. We passed on BH and he had success. The dude from Youngstown St played us or whatever and just took a job at Utah St. And now McCollum goes to a very good mid major program. Will be interesting to look back in 5 years and see where all 4 coaches are.

He’s going to be so good he’s got two threads going.

He is the Mark Few of the MAC except he never wins lol.

To echo some of the comments above, Nate might be the best one game scenario coach right now. He is great at finding and exploiting mismatches. Like poor mans Chet Holgrem last night. Jeremy Harris vs Arizona for us. He’s got one thing left to do and that’s win it all. Basically what we are seeing at Bama is what we were beginning to see at UB. Tempo. Threes. Multiple ball handling guards in the lineup at the same time. Wings who are lengthy and can switch on defense. Everything. Bama is what we would’ve been had we been able to keep him. Forgot one thing…Nate loves his lefty players too. Purposely recruits them. Tactical.

An idea like this will also cut down on player tampering that we know occurs behind the scenes

I’ve always thought that was his trajectory but honestly Bama has deep pockets and he is a genius at the college level. I don’t know if night in and night out pros wanna play his style. He’s perfect where he’s at. The only logical move is to a true blue blood. Otherwise he can be the next Saban at Bama.

I haven’t listened yet but I plan to. Without having listened, it’s only a matter of time before those giving money wisen up and realize that they aren’t getting enough in return for their investment. Now we don’t know what the players do off the court when they receive NIL deals (what obligations they have and fulfill) but I can’t imagine boosters being happy pumping millions into a program that doesn’t win. Therefore I can see the funders essentially saying to a player, you want this money…you need to stay at this school for X amount of years. And the only way you can leave is graduation, coaching change or pro entry. Essentially NIL deals will become contracts and you will have full fledge minor league ball.

One win away from a final 4.

Pulling in recruits on the down low lol. What’s the buzz on him?

He should jump at this

Oh it has been talked about on another thread.