[quote="Logen" post=405770][quote="EliteBaller K" post=405768][quote="Logen" post=405752][quote="EliteBaller K" post=405745][quote="Logen" post=405683][quote="EliteBaller K" post=405672][quote="Logen" post=405671][quote="bamafan" post=405669]Early in the game we were chucking up 3s many by guys who should not be taking them. Coach said our offense was "settling" for these shots so why not call a TO and tell the team what you want from them in no uncertain terms?[/quote]
Like I said in an earlier post, I understand your point and it is valid. Counterpoint is, CMA wants to play fast and faster, he coaches creating tempo, not running plays if you will. One can like the style or not, but it is obvious that is the way he wants to play. As I believe Paul Massell posted, it takes time to play that style “intelligently”, to play at that speed while still making good decisions. I may be way wrong here but I believe there is an aspect of “they have to figure it out” to his style which may be one of the reasons people like Making Plays and Anderson himself have said his teams get better as the season goes on, guys “figure it out”. Certainly that seemed to happen last year but the too small a sample size and the truncated season leaves the jury out for me. I think things like his post game comment about teams leaving guys open for a reason is part of his coaching philosophy; he wants guys to think it through and figure it out for themselves and as a team. Calling time outs and telling guys “not to shoot” goes against the grain of how he wants the team to play, which is fast and instinctive. Maybe I am way overthinking it but I find CMA to be a very interesting man, teaching a fairly unique style of ball, somewhat the antithesis of coaches who want to control everything and have players play like robots.[/quote]
So you're saying that he might want guys that shouldn't be shooting 3s to actually shoot 3s?
Well that's stupid, they'll miss then it's like an empty possession.[/quote]
No, that’s not what I said at all, I guess reading is not a strong suit so maybe try buying a book. What I said, really speculated (sorry for using a word with more than two syllables) was that maybe he wants players to realize for themselves what is a good and bad shot for them in other ways than calling timeouts in games. And as long as we are going there, the idea that fans watching on TV after four games should decide who should be shooting and playing along with what shots they should be taking rather than coaches who recruited them and see them every day in practice is what’s really stupid. I played ball seriously for decades, including NAIA college ball, and I more than went through good and bad stretches of play, every player has, that’s the way it works.[/quote]
Oh ok there Jerky
Yeah coach knows bests, so let them keep shooting and missing. So what, I mean coach knows best.[/quote]
Good comeback, how did you ever come up with that!! And how could I ever think that the coach knows more about the team than you do; I'll come up with a better reply as soon as I stop laughing. No, on second thought, I'm done with this conversation; I have to go ask CMA why he doesn't hire you as a consultant.[/quote]
Logen i see how you talk down to.others on here, I guess because you were a coach somewhere you think you're all high and mighty? Lmao. You're a nobody to me.
I won't continue this here on the board, so if you want pm me.[/quote]
Well you decided to start by completely misinterpreting my post and calling the premise stupid. Yes, I talk down to people who treat me the same, and that has nothing to do with basketball. As for being high and mighty, not at all, I just have a combative personality. Maybe from being in the middle of 11 brothers and sisters, maybe just from having some a$$hole in me.
No need for PMs, I have no problem with the exchange nor do I hold grudges. You came at me, I came at you, as far as I am concerned it is over.[/quote]
I wasn't calling your comment stupid, I was saying if cma was letting the duke and Moore take 3s and not calling timeouts to tell them to stop, that would be stupid on his part. You can't let the kids run the team, the coach has to.
