CMA For COY The Right Choice

[mm52]

It's a moot issue; CMA won coach of the year!  Well deserved.

 

[lawmanfan]

Succesful teams are a combination of talent and coaching(I'm simplifying it). UCONN finished 3rd and we finished 4th. So the disparity between the 2 teams, in terms of results this season,  is relatively minor. My feeling is that we have slightly less talent overall, and slightly better coaching. Some of you may disagree. 

We have much less talent than Uconn, the talent level between the 2 schools is not comparable. 
Their talent played to their level our talent greatly exceeded the level of talent on paper and played well collectively which made the sum greater than the individual parts. Excellent job by CMA and staff and kudos to the players who bought in to the system.  
 

I'm with North on this.  Look at it this way:

Bouknight > Champagnie
Posh > Cole

After that Polley, Whaley, Sanogo, Martin, Gaffney are all better than Dunn, Moore, Roberts, Earlington, Wusu.

UConn's roster can play you big, small, halfcourt, fullcourt, and beat you any of those ways.  It's a good, deep, versatile roster.  They have 7 players who are full-time caliber Big East starters.  And they're well coached.

By comparison, Anderson has 2 full-time caliber Big East starters and he has put the rest together by using his entire bench and maximizing their skills and abilities.  Just a far superior coaching job with a significantly shallower roster.

I've left Greg W out of the conversation due to injury, but even if you throw him into the discussion it doesn't change the equation IMHO.

But MM52 is correct - the coaches got it right so it's a moot issue.

 

[monte]

Succesful teams are a combination of talent and coaching(I'm simplifying it). UCONN finished 3rd and we finished 4th. So the disparity between the 2 teams, in terms of results this season,  is relatively minor. My feeling is that we have slightly less talent overall, and slightly better coaching. Some of you may disagree. 

We have much less talent than Uconn, the talent level between the 2 schools is not comparable. 
Their talent played to their level our talent greatly exceeded the level of talent on paper and played well collectively which made the sum greater than the individual parts. Excellent job by CMA and staff and kudos to the players who bought in to the system.  

So I guess RMN, that would make you one of the people who disagree with me? lol. I'll tell you this much, I'll venture a guess that SH, PC and a lot of the other teams that we beat up on this year don't question our team's talent level. Again, I give CMA(and the kids) all the credit in the world for maximizing their talents. The one thing we're lacking that it seems all other Big East teams have, is a solid low post presence. Hopefully soon. 
 

 

[monte]

Succesful teams are a combination of talent and coaching(I'm simplifying it). UCONN finished 3rd and we finished 4th. So the disparity between the 2 teams, in terms of results this season,  is relatively minor. My feeling is that we have slightly less talent overall, and slightly better coaching. Some of you may disagree. 

We have much less talent than Uconn, the talent level between the 2 schools is not comparable. 
Their talent played to their level our talent greatly exceeded the level of talent on paper and played well collectively which made the sum greater than the individual parts. Excellent job by CMA and staff and kudos to the players who bought in to the system.  

 

I'm with North on this.  Look at it this way:

Bouknight > Champagnie
Posh > Cole

After that Polley, Whaley, Sanogo, Martin, Gaffney are all better than Dunn, Moore, Roberts, Earlington, Wusu.

UConn's roster can play you big, small, halfcourt, fullcourt, and beat you any of those ways.  It's a good, deep, versatile roster.  They have 7 players who are full-time caliber Big East starters.  And they're well coached.

By comparison, Anderson has 2 full-time caliber Big East starters and he has put the rest together by using his entire bench and maximizing their skills and abilities.  Just a far superior coaching job with a significantly shallower roster.

I've left Greg W out of the conversation due to injury, but even if you throw him into the discussion it doesn't change the equation IMHO.

But MM52 is correct - the coaches got it right so it's a moot issue.

That's some spin right there LMF; I was never arguing who should he coach of the year, so it was always moot by your rationale. I've watched a ton of UCONN this year, and I don't see the talent disparity being quite as great as some of you guys do. To each his own. 
 

 

[monte]

And while stats aren't everything...
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[ghostzapper]

I won't comment about overall talent level between SJU and UConn but as far as the NBA is concerned James Bouknight is considered to be a lottery pick and is currently projected to be a number 10 to 12 pick in the first round. The last time SJU had a player selected as high as a number 12 pick in the first round was Chris Mullin (picked seventh) back in 1985.

With all the great players we have had in the last 35 years Bouknight is rated a higher NBA prospect than any of them. That fact alone separates UConn and SJU in talent this season.

On a separate note I am still pissed off that the Big East let UConn back in to the conference. The fact is that they are in our way again. IMO they should have left them to rot in the American Athletic Conference.

That all said congratulations to Coach Anderson. He has done an amazing job and this Award is very well deserved!

 

[MarkRedman]

Kudos to CMA for being named BE COY - a most well deseved honor!!!

We were picked 9th in the league and finished 4th. Why? Because the players bought into his philosophy and CMA and his staff have done a masterful job at identifying kids that fit his system and player development - both in terms of individual skills and molding the players into a unified team.

Champ, our "star", was a late find. Posh, injured during his senior year, saw his rating plummet, Wusu was lightly recruited, Earlington was thought to be a football recruit during his senior year, Dunn played at St Francis, a much lower level than the BE, Cole and Moore came from the JUCO ranks and had to adjust to playing at the D-1 level and Williams needed to build the confidence to step up and perform at a high level. CMA and his staff made it all work in short order despite all of the potential COVID related issues. Not many coaches could have done that.

CMA has done a masterful job. Not only is he the BE COY, he deserves serious consideration for National COY IMO.

 

[redfazed]

Congrats to CMA! We far exceeded expectations this season -well done!

 

[Lambsbball]

Congratulations to Mike Anderson. BE COY is even sweeter considering the terrible circumstances of leaving Arkansas and then replacing an alumni, HOF at St John's.