(02-12-2018 09:18 AM)Seahawkhoops Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 07:41 AM)CG_Hawk06 Wrote:  

(02-11-2018 10:21 PM)bricksnivy Wrote:  

(02-10-2018 02:48 PM)Seahawkhoops Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 12:13 PM)bricksnivy Wrote:  

Serious question Bricks, does it not drive you bat $hit crazy when another team goes on a 19-0 run and Roy just stands there with his hands in his pocket refusing to call a timeout?

No, it really doesn't. His track record speaks for itself. Roy is coaching for March. He plays his bench, and he lets his players figure things out. Carolina ended the first half 7-0 run and came out of a 15 minute break before going on a 15-7 run. Are there times when he's stubborn? Yes! But I think Roy's coaching is vastly underrated.

I agree. ESPECIALLY when you look at the recruiting done at Duke. Duke is pulling down top 1-3 recruiting classes nearly every year. Coach K is stepping on the court with NBA ready freshman regularly, classes that our touted as "best ever" by talking heads all the time. Then what happens, Carolina (while not playing with mid-major recruited talent, obviously) steps in with a lower recruitment ranking, competes, wins, and wins national championships. Roy may not have his teams ranked in the top 5 every year, but his teams learn and gel together over multiple seasons usually (not nearly as many one and dones as Duke, Kentucky, etc) and then put it together for championship runs. That to me, is better coaching then just going out there because of your fame and NBA contact grabbing the highest touted players, only having them for a year... and flopping with that talent more often than not.

One and Done talent doesn't always add up to championship ball. I'd argue K was a better coach when he didn't have a bunch of 1 and dones. K's teams were always fundamentally sound defensively. The last several years it's been horrid. Roy does a tremendous job at developing talent, that can't be denied. Many times these one and dones, while uber talented, don't want to listen because they don't really have too. and we all know the AAU circuit is garbage ball.

Bricks- I guess you just get immune to it. I asked the same question to a parent of a kid i coach that is a UNC guy(about an hour after i sent this) and that was his exact answer. It's easy to say it didn't matter because they won, but i just don't get it. You can't take them with you! I'm glad C.B figured out after a few games how important it is to call them at the mid major level. I was losing my mind at the game i was at where Campbell went on a 17-2 run without one, but the next few games he started using them wisely.

On the one hand, I've read statistics that suggest timeouts don't successfully stop runs/droughts. Conversely, there's conventional wisdom...I get it. If Roy were sitting here with zero titles, it may bother me. But, he didn't call a timeout in the 2008 Final Four when KU jumped out to a 28 point lead. He's not changing his philosophy at this point of his career, and he'd tell you he got it from Dean. Roy doesn't manipulate the last 4 minutes of a game like Dean could; they're both successful, so I think, yeah, most just accept it.