Not at all. Wouldn’t fly out kids for officials who you don’t think are good enough to play at your level. Again it’s manufacturing slights in a way that would be viewed as very unhealthy in personal relationships or non-sports professional settings.
Also not offering a kid isn’t always about being good enough or not. Coaches (at least guys like Tony and Jay Wright) are putting rosters together in a way that all the pieces make sense not assembling all star teams.
The Kspert thing was kind of awkward. Hard to explain to most people because of the unique way Bennett does things. He was going to Gonzaga regardless is really all it boils down to. He visited before they even saw him play. All about relationships. Didn’t fit what they were looking for at all but he got to take the visit and feel like he had seen other options.
Yeah I don’t think Kispert is making it up out of thin air, but guessing he took something Bennett said or implied and just remembered some parts to serve as motivation.
That was the Marco Anthony Frankie Badocci class. I’m guessing we would’ve taken Kispert.
Like everything you have to put it in the context of when it happened. If Kispert were a 2022 recruit he would have just finished his official visit at UVA (and Notre Dame). The following weekend was a live period. They returned his visit by sending an assistant up there to watch him play. And then decided not to recruit him. I’m sure Bennett delivered that message along with helpful critiques which he’s hung as a chip on his shoulder.
This was April of 2016. That same live period Bennett offered scholarships to Chris Lykes and Lonnie Walker. By summer Ty Jerome arrived on grounds and they decided he was their PG so they focused in on finding that Brogs style big guard with their only available scholarship which turned into Marco Anthony in July.
UVA 1 National Championship; Gonzaga none.
Who is this Corey person? Doesn’t have a ring to it ( lol I saw this somewhere else).
Link to the recruiting article about Kispert’s trip to UVA by the Sabre
Hard to review the data and reach any conclusion except: Kispert was not National Champion material.
Does anyone remember the offense we ran to get Gill, Tobey and Scott touches and shots? Was it all blocker-mover and they got the ball when the movers saw them open? Did Scott play as a mover on offense? Or was it some other offense altogether?
my recollection is it was 95% blocker-mover (though i’ll argue many, particularly during those early years, didn’t get Tony credit for the tweaks and variations he rolled out, instead going with a talking point of “we run the same offense, grinding the game to a halt”, but i digress…).
However it seems like the difference was in recognizing who wanted to get the ball. I recall a lot more of a guard coming off a Gill pin-down and catching it, and then immediately looking to AG (who was also immediately positioning for a catch, vs. turning away from the ball to set the next screen).
Comparatively, i feel like this year we saw less of that - particularly notable when it was Jay setting the screen, it never felt like the guard/wing would catch and immediately look to see if Jay had position to get a feed. Now you could argue that even Jay was not particularly efficient in the post, however just getting it in makes the defense shift, and he scored enough that if we’d have tried it a few times early (i.e., vs Ohio…?), maybe the feel like they have to bring a double and a lot more opens up? I dunno, seemed like we would go 10 minutes plus without even considering those passes.
So in conclusion, i’d think/hope we have a more concerted effort with Gardener to immediately look and dump it in when coming off those screens.
Agreed with @Wahoo08, it was a lot of blocker-mover, which has some built-in post looks off the pin-down, side pick-and-rolls, and rolls when the mover catches off the curl, in terms of ways for blockers to score.
Take it for what it is worth, and there are lots of mock drafts, but this one has Trey at 26.
https://twitter.com/GaryParrishCBS/status/1385681434770296833?s=19
Good for Trey! Hopefully he is successful and others that we are recruiting will see that as well! “One year with TB and a first round pick is what you’ll be!”
pretty big discrepancy between his “prospect rank” and where parrish has him landing. guess he thinks he’s worth a big reach given how well his shooting, length, and athleticism fit into the current state of the nba
Is that Kadins weight or JWillys weight?
Kadins. Good news on the recovery prospects
https://twitter.com/accnetwork/status/1385752895388360704
georgia tech had pastner and the women’s coach take over coordinator duties in the second quarter of their spring game. looks like pastner was on the defensive side. imagine if we had tony doing that. our defense would look like 1971 nebraska
Good for Trey and hope that’s where he lands. However, if the Nets have that pick I’d doubt they’d pick him… Already have a lights out three point shooter we know well…
