(01-31-2020 10:04 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(01-31-2020 07:18 PM)MTigerBlue Wrote:  

(01-29-2020 09:20 AM)mairving Wrote:  

(01-29-2020 08:50 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  IMO Penny needs a mentor who can develop him into the fine young HC he will one day become sooner rather than later.

Wasn't the same thing said about Pastner? If you have to hire someone to develop you as a coach you really shouldn't be a head coach.

Pastnerizing Penny is just a step or two away from Finching him. Everybody wanted Penny, knew what he brought, knew his level of experience, should have known it would take time for him to learn to coach like Larry Brown (or even Cal.)

On the other hand, this class was way above what most of us thought he could pull off in recruiting his first year. And he's already showing that he realizes some of his "desires" for an offensive or defensive strategy have to be tweaked to fit reality. I don't know what kind of coach he'll be in the long run, but if I gave Pastner four years, I'm definitely giving Penny more benefit of the doubt than that.

But I respect you, TigerBlue. That's what boards are for. And there are lots of things that have been said on this board that made more sense than what some of our coaches were doing on the floor.

Thanks, I agree with everything you said and in case I didn't make it clear to all, I'm a Penny supporter to the end. Anything critical I say about him is generally just emotion during bad games but I like to think at least some of it is objective, valid and by no means meant to demean him.