(04-14-2016 02:56 PM)TigerFan386 Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 01:43 PM)Irish Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 12:31 PM)TigerFan386 Wrote:  It's a wait and see hire for me. We could have done better, but we could have done a lot worse. Three things bother me about this hire. We shouldn't have to pay over 3 million for Tubby. He's not a recruiter. He plays slow, "boring" basketball.

I've seen Tubby's teams at Tulsa, Georgia, Kentucky, Minn & Texas Tech. Boring is not what I saw. Please define "boring".

Slow, deliberate offense. I'm glad we'll finally be able to see our team run a real offense with some real plays, but it's gonna be a huge change of pace for us. Crunching numbers real quick, for his career he averages 207th in D1 for possessions per game. He was a lot slower if you look at his last two stops. At Minnesota he averaged 250th, and Texas Tech he averaged 289th. During the same time period, Memphis as a program averaged 87th in D1. Calipari averaged 107th, with paces of 19th, 66th, and 83rd during his three year run from 06 to 08. Pastner averaged 87th with some years as high as 18th, 38th, 43rd. I know that's a whole bunch of numbers to throw out, but all it tells me is Tubby plays slow, especially since he left Kentucky. Hopefully that is a direct correlation between the talent levels he was able to get at Kentucky vs his other stops. So I hope he will be able to get some talented athletes here and play faster than he has been lately. Obviously if we make Finals Fours playing the slowest pace in the country I won't give an ish, but I personally find faster paced basketball more exciting.

With all due respect my friend, Tubby has been playing an uptemp style rooted in pressure defense for 25 years. He has been coaching in the B10 the last several years, and that slows down EVERYONE. Particularity when you are overclassed talent wise at a smaller program.

Tubby himself is not Mr personality, and people confuse that with his teams playing style.

Tubbys teams play in your face defense that create pressure and turnovers into fast break opportunities.