Andre Kelly at the 5 and Grant Anticevich at the 4, with any of Hyder/Brown/Betley/Foreman/Bradley at the guard and wing positions. What this essentially means is four shooters surrounding an effective post player, and the results have generally been very positive.
Welcome to the 21st Century Coach Fox. Let's see if you can recruit enough shooters to make a constant 4 out offense work without always relying on grad transfers.
Agreed all around, Nick...they’re watchable, but until the talent level is upgraded, 8-10, or at best 9-9, is the absolute ceiling for this team under Fox. Betley just killed them this weekend, going 3-20 combined, 2-11 from 3. Yet they still hung...but once the opposing talent level ratcheted up, the shots missed the mark.
This team really needs a low post anchor...Kelly is solid, but his offensive repertoire is somewhat limited. Thorpe is a Kelly clone, just younger. KK is simply too raw and unfortunately probably won’t reach his potential until his mid-to-late 20’s...Thiemann just brings so little to the table it’s not even worth mentioning. Grab a rebound for chrissakes....
But they’re definitely on track, and a full season of a healthy Bradley next year will be a big help...but they sure could use an impact big to take the next step. Also pleased with Joel’s development, tho shooting <50% from the line is simply unacceptable for a PG.
Nick, I'd swear you scanned my own brain before writing this. Not because I would have written it so well but due to your alignment with my own thinking. My son and I watched this game, and UCLA, and agreed we were just a bucket or two away from beating top teams. With a team that is clearly less talented. That is coaching. It gave me hope that at least on the X's and O's side of things, Fox can do it well enough. I saw good offensive passing and plays by our Bears yesterday. But as you conclude, if we don't get the Ivan Rabb's and Allen Crabbe's and Jaylen Brown's, we will remain scrappy and lowly ranked. Monty was a better coach than anyone in the league, but it still took some top flight talent for him to win the Pac.
But we see progress on the court. And after the Jones debacle, that's a good sign.
Andre Kelly at the 5 and Grant Anticevich at the 4, with any of Hyder/Brown/Betley/Foreman/Bradley at the guard and wing positions. What this essentially means is four shooters surrounding an effective post player, and the results have generally been very positive.
Welcome to the 21st Century Coach Fox. Let's see if you can recruit enough shooters to make a constant 4 out offense work without always relying on grad transfers.
Agreed all around, Nick...they’re watchable, but until the talent level is upgraded, 8-10, or at best 9-9, is the absolute ceiling for this team under Fox. Betley just killed them this weekend, going 3-20 combined, 2-11 from 3. Yet they still hung...but once the opposing talent level ratcheted up, the shots missed the mark.
This team really needs a low post anchor...Kelly is solid, but his offensive repertoire is somewhat limited. Thorpe is a Kelly clone, just younger. KK is simply too raw and unfortunately probably won’t reach his potential until his mid-to-late 20’s...Thiemann just brings so little to the table it’s not even worth mentioning. Grab a rebound for chrissakes....
But they’re definitely on track, and a full season of a healthy Bradley next year will be a big help...but they sure could use an impact big to take the next step. Also pleased with Joel’s development, tho shooting <50% from the line is simply unacceptable for a PG.
Nick, I'd swear you scanned my own brain before writing this. Not because I would have written it so well but due to your alignment with my own thinking. My son and I watched this game, and UCLA, and agreed we were just a bucket or two away from beating top teams. With a team that is clearly less talented. That is coaching. It gave me hope that at least on the X's and O's side of things, Fox can do it well enough. I saw good offensive passing and plays by our Bears yesterday. But as you conclude, if we don't get the Ivan Rabb's and Allen Crabbe's and Jaylen Brown's, we will remain scrappy and lowly ranked. Monty was a better coach than anyone in the league, but it still took some top flight talent for him to win the Pac.
But we see progress on the court. And after the Jones debacle, that's a good sign.
Kind of a frustrating ending but a lot of things are starting to go right for the Bears.