🏀 Next Basketball Head Coach Speculation Thread

[Hooandtrue]

VCU hosts Davidson and future top portal prospect Reed Bailey at 7pm.

However the Cavs are at the Celtics 7:30pm (all est the normal time of course)

[zvillehoo]

Thanks. Their defensive system seems super strange looking at the statistics:.

• #3 in the country in forcing turnovers
• Allows a ton of 3pt shots (ranks #318 in the country)
• Really good at keeping 2pt field goal shooting % down despite having among the lowest shot blocking %s in the country.
• Rebounds the ball really well defensively
• Doesn’t foul

It reads like a packline defense that somehow turns the other team over a sh*t ton without fouling.

I don’t know what talent he has. It may be unathletic, but its a very Senior and Junior laden team. Only 2 players in the rotation are Sophomores. Zero freshmen getting run.

The guy reads REALLY well on paper statistically. Not sure if he just has a roster that has a ton of continuity in his system that might be hard to replicate quickly elsewhere.

Edit: His 2024 team had a similar defensive profile but was only average forcing turnovers and only average in 2pt Defense. The result was a defense ranked #221 nationally.

[haney]

UCSD tempo (adjusted) - see below. They’re FASTER than the D1 average on offense

[EmbracePaceUVA]

That’s interesting. So they must force a lot of late clock turnovers on defense (and shot clock violations).

[lodger96]

@zvillehoo

I don’t know what talent he has. It may be unathletic, but its a very Senior and Junior laden team. Only 2 players in the rotation are Sophomores. Zero freshmen getting run.

He talked about it with Goodman. His approach to the portal is finding guys who have played a lot in college. At his level, that means D-II guys — he has six of them on his current team.

For us, that would mean more Ameses and fewer Powers out of the portal.

[4547Lambeth]

@lodger96

His approach to the portal is finding guys who have played a lot in college.

Which would imply guys going into their 3rd year who started most of their first 2 years. Problem is those kind of guys are apparently hard to get into school, so I’m told. Trey Murphy and Braxton Key were exceptions I guess. Franklin too.

And we’re apparently never going to get guys who played 3 years and have 1 left, unless those guys graduated in 3 years. Sam Hauser wouldn’t have come here if the no sit rule was in place back then. Gardner had the extra year that’ll be gone after next year.

[EmbracePaceUVA]

@4547Lambeth

Sam Hauser wouldn’t have come here if the no sit rule was in place back then.

Why?

[DavetheWave]

He needed 2 years to graduate because of UVA asinine and ancient credit requirements.
And hoity toity attitude about it.

[StLouHoo]

@4547Lambeth

Trey Murphy and Braxton Key were exceptions I guess. Franklin too.

The takeaway is rising sophomores and juniors are probably okay, but rising seniors are academically problematic. Grad transfers always fine.

[AdventiveQuasar]

I think rising juniors is an open question. Obviously we’ve done it (Saunders, Franklin) but we also have heard others we didn’t get would have had some trouble (thinking Xavier Amos in particular).

[lodger96]

Not really. Could be guys who played rather than sat the bench first year.

Rohde types. Not someone who played sparingly.

He likes transfers who have college experience — where the game has already “slowed down” for them — not dudes learning on the fly.

[MaineWahoo]

Olen is the chosen one. All who cannot see it are blind. He alone can return us to the promised land.

I encourage heretics like @BDragon to convert while there is still time. There is room in the house of Olen for all who seek truth. But we will also make the truth known, and those who deny the hand offered to them will not find a warm embrace later.

[4547Lambeth]

@StLouHoo

The takeaway is rising sophomores and juniors are probably okay, but rising seniors are academically problematic. Grad transfers always fine.

I think rising juniors is harder than rising sophomores because there’s some sort of minimum credit requirement to transfer into a class year and if someone loses any in the transfer process that gets harder the less time you have to make it up. And then students have to declare a major by the 5th semester and if a transfer in doesn’t have the prereqs and all that for the major he wants that’s hard too.

Grad transfers will probably go down to the level they were at 7 years ago, which is very few. No more covid 5th year of eligibility guys really soon.

[zh00s]

We speak his name.

[kendall]

Tick, tock. It’s almost March. T-minus… three weeks? Four weeks? Til we know who it is and can start deep-diving the systems and schemes.

[StLouHoo]

Ron’s tenure ends in two weeks.

After that, it’s most likely about when the next guy’s season ends.

[JoeBoxley]

Anyone familiar with timelines for coaching hires? Is it unprecedented to have a coach be hired at a new school before his school is eliminated? Asking because I see a VCU / Marquette / UNM / Vandy final four in my crystal ball

[AnonymooseHoo]

So we’re hiring Olen?

[haney]

I can’t think of any examples of that in hoops.

[dave92]

@JoeBoxley

Is it unprecedented to have a coach be hired at a new school before his school is eliminated?

Well, there was Bill Frieder at Michigan.