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SignUp Now!If you want a great defensive team then you may as well get off the OAD bandwagon. Teaching 18 year olds how to playdefense is difficult especially when they have one foot out the door. Kids are either going to already be great at defense or they aren't going to be at Duke most likely.I'm glad he's on this team. This is my final straw with a Coach K coached defense. If he can't produce a good one with the pieces in place to have a good defensive team, then we probably won't ever have one again with him coaching.
It's not like I'm basing it entirely on game footage either. I'm also going by what multiple scouts have said. I assume they've watched more games than you and I combined.Rome, I've watched both games (then decided to watch Bagley's entire game against Hale, and noticed he had a few late game possessions that disgusted me more than anything I witnessed from Cam in both games)
Moreover, a sample size of a few games didn't change my opinion - which is more influenced by his complete statistical profile, elite physical tools, his natural ability to navigate PnR and his performances against high level competition.
If you want a great defensive team then you may as well get off the OAD bandwagon. Teaching 18 year olds how to playdefense is difficult especially when they have one foot out the door. Kids are either going to already be great at defense or they aren't going to be at Duke most likely.I'm glad he's on this team. This is my final straw with a Coach K coached defense. If he can't produce a good one with the pieces in place to have a good defensive team, then we probably won't ever have one again with him coaching.
If you want a great defensive team then you may as well get off the OAD bandwagon. Teaching 18 year olds how to playdefense is difficult especially when they have one foot out the door. Kids are either going to already be great at defense or they aren't going to be at Duke most likely.I'm glad he's on this team. This is my final straw with a Coach K coached defense. If he can't produce a good one with the pieces in place to have a good defensive team, then we probably won't ever have one again with him coaching.
That's an excuse. Not only have we seen Kentucky produce multiple very good to elite defenses with young teams, but Duke and Coach K showed, although only for 6 games in 2015, that it is possible. Our 2015 NCAA tournament defense was elite elite elite. It can be done, just because they're 18 doesn't make them incapable of learning a complex defensive scheme.
We get elite skill players, I wouldn't necessarily say we get elite athletes. At least not the way UK or KU do. I've said it before, so I'll say it here. A starting back court of Grayson Allen and Kennard is/was never going to be good defensively. I think the way we are recruiting is having more impact on defense than the actual teaching of defense.
We get elite skill players, I wouldn't necessarily say we get elite athletes. At least not the way UK or KU do. I've said it before, so I'll say it here. A starting back court of Grayson Allen and Kennard is/was never going to be good defensively. I think the way we are recruiting is having more impact on defense than the actual teaching of defense.
If you want a great defensive team then you may as well get off the OAD bandwagon. Teaching 18 year olds how to playdefense is difficult especially when they have one foot out the door. Kids are either going to already be great at defense or they aren't going to be at Duke most likely.I'm glad he's on this team. This is my final straw with a Coach K coached defense. If he can't produce a good one with the pieces in place to have a good defensive team, then we probably won't ever have one again with him coaching.
That's an excuse. Not only have we seen Kentucky produce multiple very good to elite defenses with young teams, but Duke and Coach K showed, although only for 6 games in 2015, that it is possible. Our 2015 NCAA tournament defense was elite elite elite. It can be done, just because they're 18 doesn't make them incapable of learning a complex defensive scheme.
No, but apparently being 70 makes a coach incapable of teaching it.
The only reasonable explanation for our shitty defense in the past several years is coaching. We get elite athletes, elite players. We don't teach them how to defend.
The OAD kids don't play defense. They're here to show off their skill set to the people watching. That's 90% what they care about. Being the best defender in the floor doesn't get them drafted in the lottery. Being able to drive both ways, hit open shots and jump out of the gym do.
No coach no matter what age can get 5 mostly 18 year old guys to play high quality defense in 1 month. Not happening.
Now I think this team can play solid defense if the staff makes it easy like the 2010 type of defense. Pack it in, funnel the ball handler to the rim protectors. That's a defense young guys can win with.
And to respond to slap the floor... I don't watch Kentucky play but I'd bet th players coming in are already very solid M2M defenders before coming to Lex and Cal doesn't over play or plays a simpler defense focusing on his OADs strengths.
Yeah, if Frank Jackson and Grayson Allen aren't athletic then I don't know what athletic is. And neither do NBA scouts, apparently, since that's a word they use often to describe both players.