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I'd have to agree with a lot of this. Most of what I question about Haase's game coaching is about things like his time out philosophy. The players give good effort, the overall intensity is good. I think that the basics of both his offense and defense look fine.

When we have two guys who miss two, three, four point blank shots until the defense finally scratches out a rebound, I'm not sure that's a coaching problem. Free throws, that's another one... I know that they can be coached and practiced, but I can't help but feel that the single biggest factor in improving them is the player deciding he was damn well going to get better and shooting hundreds of them.

The senior class had a bunch of guys who were good team players, but they were more role players than lead dogs. There was no Paul Delaney type who would just refuse to lose and put the team on his shoulders, or if there was that guy he didn't have the skills to actually do it when it was needed. The closest we had was Chad, but he wasn't quite up to that. If he'd had an AJ to feed him, that would have made him much more effective, and that lack was the single biggest factor in our being mediocre this season.