I will gladly accept a little âsloppinessâ for aggression that results in 10-15 more shot attempts per game. No more boa constrictor offense!
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@brogdonfanpage on portal etc
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Just win, baby.
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Irony is VCUâs turnover rate was lower than ours last season.
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Yeah. I want to see more aggression, but I donât want to see bad shot taking and a slew of iso-ball. Those things arenât always correlated.
My hope is that the âVCU on paperâ profile is what we see â lots of ball movement, player aggression, lots of smart, open shots from the 3PT line and at the rim (i.e. high eFG rate), not a high turnover rate, and high assist rates, etc.
Aggression doesnât have to come with chaos and bad shot selection.
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Sanchez vs. Bennett.
Last yearâs team was the sloppiest since the last Leitao team or first few Bennett squads.
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Bradford Burgess is staying on the new VCU staff, was just announced. There had been some speculation that he would follow Odom.
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I wonder why Theus was the one who stuck with Odom, and Burgess stayed
Theus was an actual recruiting assistant at vcu i believe. Burgess was on support staff
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Pick up the phone, Coach Odom! Cmon!
https://x.com/John_Fanta/status/1908210975448207706
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Of course Iâm being totally selfish here, and not realizing this means Rick back at Louisville
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He saw that we wonât have a team next year because chance Silas and maybe Eli are the only people on the team ducks
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Yeah I think the VCU post makes it seem like he got promoted to actual assistant of some sort.
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Me and Brad were middle school friends. Real solid dude.
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Has there been any news on if Guy, Wilkins, or Coleman will be on staff next year?
Speculation that Guy canât be added as a full time assistant until he finishes his degree (Maybe May?)
All 3 are at the final four because itâs basically a huge coaches convention.
If I had to guess, one stays in some capacity (Chase would be a second because I believe he still has a year left as a grad assistant)
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Interesting to me:
- at Utah St - Odom retained 6 players (Bean, Ashworth, Bairstow, Shulga, Dorius, Miller), even though the previous coach was right up the front range
- at VCU - Odom retained 4 players (Jackson, Billups, Lawal, Fermin), even though the previous coach was still in the region. He promoted Darius Theus, a staff holdover from Rhoads era / former VCU player, to full assistant (he was an Asst. one year at Siena).
- Here? Seems like Gertrude (fingers crossed), maybe Cofie (but probably not), and some walk-ons, even though the previous coaches donât even have gigs, yet. And TBD on a UVa-related guy on the staff going forward, but the actual assistant slots are full up. I guess itâs still possible we keep Saliba, Curtis, and two of Zay/Chase/Kyle, but it doesnât seem too likely⌠And thereâs at least some chance that Elijah G is our ONLY Bennett era connection.
One thing I liked about Odom is that he was a âblenderâ at his previous stops. But it either (a) doesnât seem to be a priority here, or (b) he wasnât able to pull it off despite making it a priority. And my guess is (a).
Does it matter? Not if he wins!
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Maybe not even that, Roberts is in the Portal too. Only Lang left of the walk ons.
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