The new and improved Coach Mullin

You cant play your starters for 40 mins so making those subs was a calculated gamble with a 9 point lead. RF at this point is not a rotation player.

Up until recently Mullin wouldn't use timeouts at all so this is a big improvement in his progression.

I'll repeat what I've said already. Before you can become a good coach, you have to coach. Right now CM is coaching and can't be judged on Ws and Ls.
 
Come to think of it, when is the last time a European played a significant positive role in SJU's performance? For that matter, how many Euros are making a major difference to any high-major D1 team? I'm drawing a blank.
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I don´t think that there has been a European that has played a significant positive role in SJU.

And I only remember a European that played well in the Big East: Arturas Karnishovas (Seton Hall) from Lithuania. Perhaps a few more, but not many.
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Doron Sheffer and Nadov Hennefeld from UConn.
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Israel is in Asia not Europe. ;) And in case it wasn't a joke Andrew Gaze was from Australia.
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That's right. Don't know what I was thinking.
 
Perhaps the coach plays his bench (three euros) in these most difficult road games with the future in mind. This team is not winning this season. As we all know, it is being built to win next year and beyond.

You sacrifice losing by under 10 for gaining a glimpse of how players are developing with the long term in mind.
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If Amar is part of that future, we are in trouble. Enough of a sample size with him to see he is not a BE player.
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It makes you wonder how we would have been w Jones. Although not a world beater . He is strong and has an inside game.
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I read somewhere that he has gotten off to a slow start. His assistant coach had to speak to him and he has improved since. I also like the idea of his big body and BE expirience
 
You cant play your starters for 40 mins so making those subs was a calculated gamble with a 9 point lead. RF at this point is not a rotation player.

Up until recently Mullin wouldn't use timeouts at all so this is a big improvement in his progression.

I'll repeat what I've said already. Before you can become a good coach, you have to coach. Right now CM is coaching and can't be judged on Ws and Ls.
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I get that you can't play your starters 40 minutes. I get that Mullin was taking a gamble. Putting one of those 3 guys in at that important juncture was a gamble. Putting 2 of them in together was a high-risk gamble. Putting all 3 in together was just outright reckless.

I want Mullin to succeed and I still have high hopes that he will. But he doesn't get a pass on stuff like this next year. The fan base is not going to stand three years of training wheels on a head coach.
 
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