re: Tom Crean quote

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They can’t be playing any worse.

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And the players say, "Here. Hold my beer."

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They’re entirely different on a fundamental way. Basketball players aren’t defined by their physicality.

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Physicality matters, but obviously not as much. At the same time, why is it not similar that coaches who want to run a specific style of play, need to recruit to that style.

I would think Edwards probably wants to see that we’ll be playing at a pace he can take 20 shots a game and scoring 75+ points (hopefully) vs. slowing it down and playing at the pace we had with Fox. I might be wrong, but in the first year where we suck, I’m fine with showing what we’re trying to do going forward instead of doing more of the same of what we had last year with the same or worse results.

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The difference between crean and fox styles is no where close to the enormous gap between the triple option and whatever Collins is installing.

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I know. I was trying to say they’re comparable with reasoning. I don’t think Crean has been great this year, but I thought Kirby was garbage in year 1. So basically I’m just going to wait a couple years before getting pissed about what we get out of Crean. Needs to recruit players for his system and college basketball is almost impossible nowadays without a PG. A&M has that same problem this year.

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It sounds like he is saying, "It's the bad players, not my great coaching."

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The proper phrasing for that coach comment is "We just didn't execute."

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Do you consider Kirby a good coach?

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Did you guys call out Kirby for leaining into LeCounte in pressers? He directly challenged LeCounte. Doesn't seem to have hurt his recruiting. Why would this be different? The man has been to the Final Four and Sweet 16 multiple times. He was left with an ok cupboard with no point guard. Let's give the guy a little benefit of the doubt and a couple more years' recruiting cycles THEN filet him. Let's see how the team responds.

He's right, we suck. Now we'll see if he can get better players in the program. Time will tell.

If you don’t see what the difference between challenging s player is and apologizing that you didn’t kick a bunch of players team, I don’t knownwhatbtontell you.

I’m alwaysbfornchallenging players.

I’m not ok EVER with any coaches ever making excuses

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Meh, he's right. The truth is a bitch.

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It's not likely to make him any friends with the guys that he's referring to on the roster today, but the reality is they aren't getting it done. Is there a better way he could have phrased that statement to sound a little less dickish? Sure... But I'm also not going to run around screaming in outrage when he's not wrong. A LOT of incoming coaches bounce a portion of the roster on the way in... he didn't... and frankly while it's been a challenging season, I think it was for the best. By the time he got hired, we had lost traction with some of the better players that Fox had us in it with so he'd have been filling the void with potentially worse players than what were already on the roster. You take your lumps this year and then fill up with what you need next.

Edwards committed to the dawgs so that's a hell of an add... with now 3 top 100 players, one obviously being #1 overall.

Crean talked with the players Saturday. Said he mis-spoke. Today Claxton said the team is closer than ever. Will be interesting to see how we come out and play this week.

If he truly recovered from this and used it to bond the team, then I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. On the surface, it sounded like something a Non-leader would say.