re: Tonight the final dagger in Grant's coffin? Or will that be losing at Auburn?

People complain about the poor quality of play under Grant but, while I'm no expert, I watch enough college basketball to see that the overall level of play isn't all that astounding anywhere.

There are talented players but just the quality of running good offensive sets, inbounding plays etc seems a lot more like recreation league stuff than it was in the past.

Not an argument for retaining Grant but, to me, the focus should be on his main issue: uncanny shortcomings in recruiting (and perhaps development of) power forwards.

I cringe at some of the offensive teamwork, inbounds plays a LOT more with most other teams I watch than Grant's and the defense seems pretty well-taught comparatively speaking.


However, the massive problem has and continues to be a decent presence in the paint: if you add even a Erwin Dudley to any of his NIT teams (including this year's) and the "coaching" looks a whole lot better, not to mention getting NCAA instead of NIT bids.