White looks the role of a good BB coach, but he's just not. The whole coming out after a BS loss playing a style that doesn't fit our personell and then saying "that's on me" ain't cutting it. And this whole Big John garbage that I keep hearing like he's gonna step in and solve this mess is just horse crap. What type of offense do we run? Whats the objective? What are the mismatches we look to create ( that dont actually involve Chiozza playing defense on a 6'8" forward in the paint)? We look out of sorts most of the game and we beat UK because they sucked worst than we did.
If you want to see a team that is well coached....watch UVa. They aren't nearly as talented but those damn dudes buy in and play defense. They would beat the USC team by 15 points at least. They took Clemson apart in the second half the other night ( you know the clemson team that we lost to). Tony Bennett would take our roster and run the table in the SEC hands down. Some of our starters wouldn't see the floor with Bennett because they just don't want to work that hard, but that's what it takes.
I did not get to attend or watch the game, but the comments seem to be a lot of what I say about our team practically every game offensively.
With that said, I could not agree more with your post regarding Tony Bennett. I sent 2 emails to Fooley in my life. The first was lambasting him on his Zook hire the minute I heard about it. The second one was imploring him to hire Tony Bennett immediately if not sooner as soon as Billy announced he was going to the Magic. We know what happened but I knew how lazy Fooley was and would just go hire Anthony Grant (which he was going to do). Bennett was putting together a brutally competitive program at Wash St. at the time (Wash St. not exactly a bball mecca). Well my friend thought that Bennett would not go over well at UF b/c of his defensive style and not an up tempo offense. But I counter that they do shoot 3's, just not hurried or bad ones. They understand screen setting and the position and timing of doing so. They are fundamentally sound defensively (held 2 opponents just this year to under 40 points, including Clemmy) I know that Bennett has not been able to win the Big One so to speak, but he regularly competes and/or wins the ACC with less talent than Duke and UNC and for my money is the best coach in college basketball right now. I enjoy watching his teams play. And yes UF creamed UVA I know, but one game does not a career make. Ray Meyer and Guy Lewis won about 2000 games between them, but were not great basketball coaches if you ever saw their teams play
Mike could really escalate his standing if he just showed more of an acumen in half court offense. I think his guys play hard, which is huge, but I just wish they were a little more fundamentally sound in certain aspects.
