(01-25-2021 05:09 PM)82hawk Wrote:  

(01-25-2021 04:37 PM)Seahawkhoops Wrote:  

(01-25-2021 04:05 PM)82hawk Wrote:  

(01-25-2021 08:52 AM)Seahawkhoops Wrote:  

(01-25-2021 08:22 AM)70shawk Wrote:  I think the Keatts/Siddle system really can only work well when you have a deep enough bench to run it...particularly when you have back to back/back to back games. You have to play the whole floor, and play it all game every game. Playing it any other way with the personnel we have is no bueno.

My hunch is that either Siddle plays the game as if the bench were deeper than it is (and hope that works), or we will see every bigger team take the ball into the paint with similar results .

Spot on my friend. We always refer to the system and how successful it was. While that is certainly true, We also had the greatest rebounder ever to step foot on our campus on those squads. That definitely enabled going smaller with much more success.

I think you missed the point....

sure didn't.

Sure did. He's talking about depth on the team. What are you talking about?

The Keatts/Siddle system obviously works (at least to a point) if you have the depth to run it, and run it the length of the court for the length of the game. If you don't have that depth, then Coach can't/won't fully commit to running the system. If you aren't fully running the system, then suddenly you are just a team with a bunch of guards/wings trying to play half court basketball with teams that have actual power forwards and post players.

Every team we will be playing saw how easily Towson and Delaware took the ball into the paint when we played man-to-man half court ball, and they are going to do the same thing until it doesn't work.

The greatest valid criticism against Keatts during his time at UNCW was his lack of adjustments when called for. When what he was doing ceased working (frequently because other coaches HAD made adjustments) he just kept on doing what mostly had been working up to that point. The UVA game in our last NCAA appearance is a painful case in point.

Siddle has been dealt a bad hand by the covid restrictions + injuries and other personnel issues. (As an aside, I don't fault him for the high risk/high reward Ian Steere experiment. If UNCW is going to ever get to, and stay, at a higher level some chances like that are most likely going to have to be taken along the way). But now that Coach Siddle has the team that he has with the depth that he has, it seems to me that he's going to have to make the interim adjustments that Keatts was unwilling to make.