IU doesn't deserve Tom Crean.
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Daugherty had injured his hand earlier in the year and he was limited by it throughout the game. We saw it in warm ups that night, just as we had seen it the previous weekend in Charlotte (UNC stayed in our hotel). Carolina was forced to go with Joe Wolf earlier than they wanted to, and he had trouble with Blab's size.
I did not remember that but Joe Wolf ended up a pretty good player at UNC and was a first round draft pick as well.
Hey I am clearly visible in the wat shot and happy to be on the popcorn box so back off!!!
Dean Smith is the most over-rated coach in all of sports.
He had more talent than God and only won two Titles....and both were flukes.
Wolf was Mr. Basketball in Wisconsin over Todd Meier and was really skilled, but he wasn't close to the athlete Daugherty was (he entered UNC as a 16 year old freshman, and started from Day One).
Horse crap to you dude!! You whine constantly and that's cool if that's how you wanna play but Paige hit 3 from 25 foot, couple off breaks, couple more w guys running at him that he made. It was there night, our times coming, they are better than us w our injuries and that's fact. I'd be perfectly fine if IU plays the way they did from mid December to now!
Along w Kansas Duke and Kentucky huh? Times have changed w parity in college basketball, that's a good thing.
I wouldn't pretend to know if it's 100% true (it likely isn't), but it's folly to suggest it's 100% false. Crean's demeanor became quite stale for a number of people inside IU and within the coaching ranks sometime ago.
If the tournament proved anything to IU and the rest of the Big Ten, it's that they moved up significantly in weight class (and it showed). IU would be no better than fourth in this year's Pac 12 and likely 5th or below in both the ACC and Big 12. UNC won because they were superior to IU all over the floor and on the bench. Not being able to handle Paige was only one example of their superiority.
No - I'm saying talent has masked Crean's deficiencies as a coach, not that our talent is equal.
I'll be satisfied knowing we are playing good team basketball, playing our asses off, playing for each other, playing w great fundamentals and playing w that IU passion!! Winning championships and going to elite 8s, final 4s are extremely tough and icing on the cake.
Read closely, I said I'll be satisfied w these things, never said we do it all the time now. Troy makes it hard to watch at times because the lack of fundamentals from him.
If you've watched with even a rudimentary understanding of the game, you'd understand that "team basketball", "playing for each other", and "playing with great fundamentals" are basically exclusive to the offensive end of the floor. Team defense is not now nor has it ever been a hallmark of Crean coached teams. He's much more an advocate of individual defensive principles rather than a team approach. The games and results don't lie.
Johnson missed how many games? Okay, we won our version
crap i spew? okay, have it your way. it's all good. crean is just the unluckiest coach ever. injuries only happen at IU
- jordy got hurt; syracuse crushes us in s16. damn the luck
- don't have enough shooters despite 2 burger boys and conference 6th man of the year; miss tourney. man, we are so unlucky
- don't have enough bigs despite 2 burger boys; get beat first round. sooo unlucky
- have a muy talented team; win (uneven and down) conference. UNC crushes us in s16. luck is not our friend again
always something. seriously, good tourney coaches find ways to win tourney games. it's that simple. but please keep the excuses up.
We were much better the last half of the season, sometimes it's not your night, I hope it carries over to next season. I'm not thrilled w how we play at times but I think he's put a solid group together and w no big defections and the guys coming in the time is now.
"Winning championships and going to elite 8s, final 4s are extremely tough and icing on the cake."
hahahahhahahahahah
well, icing on the cake except for the other coaches in his pay grade.
You my friend said we were firing on all cylinders which is nonsense. I'm talking about this game, RJ would've been a huge factor, offensively and mostly defensively he'd have helped.
It's your right to be a negative fan, I'm not like that, if it's so easy why are their so many teams who've never made a final 4 or won a NC? Probably cause from your coach it seems that way, in reality people in the coaching biz get it.
Is there any way to contact a mod? I had a post yanked and it said, "You had a post yanked for making stuff up. If you keep it up you'll quickly lose your posting privileges. Save that for other boards"
Not trying to be difficult, bit I honestly don't remember what post he's talking about and I can't respond.
Also, I find that warning a little odd because Purdue and Kentucky fans troll these boards non-stop and I've never seen a board in my life that lets opposing fans do that.
Not trying to be difficult, bit I honestly don't remember what post he's talking about and I can't respond.
Also, I find that warning a little odd because Purdue and Kentucky fans troll these boards non-stop and I've never seen a board in my life that lets opposing fans do that.
Why SHOULDN'T you do it all the time?
Because of coaching - THAT'S why!!
"We're settlers, son"
I don't.
I think Crean grew as a coach this year.....but only because Blackmon got hurt.
You are right about that quote being about Dale Brown.(I believe another poster pointed that out and provided a link) I don't think they were golf buddies but I'll say for certain that I don't know...or really care. The point was that with ALL of the talent Smith had, two NCAA titles appears as underperforming to me.
My bad. It wouldn't surprise me if Knight thought that, but I don't recall him being outwardly critical of Smith. As someone else alluded to elsewhere, Smith may have only had one title had Alan Henderson been healthy in 1993.
Yup, there is a reason for the rash of po'Tom articles. Coach Tom Crean is totally up on the political game.
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