(09-02-2019 03:22 PM)82hawk Wrote:  This thread is PURE comedy. Of course having the best players usually equates to having the best team. Can we get a DUH? If you are a Duke, UNC, Kansas, etc., you have the luxury of tossing those players on the court and having a pretty good idea you'll win.

Newsflash!!!!! We aren't any of those teams. We will NEVER have the best players. We are a top team in the CAA and have had a total of THREE players ever put on an NBA uniform, and the latest one may or may not actually play an NBA game. Duke and Carolina have had single team with more NBA players than we've had in our history.

We have midmajor level talent. Which means we MUST do something different if we want to compete. THAT is where it becomes vital for a midmajor team to have a coach and scheme that NEGATES the talent imbalance if we are ever going to compete. We have had two "seasons" of success at UNCW. Both times we didn't just line up our players and hope we had the best talent on the court. We slowed the game down, played lock down defense, and kept it close so we had a chance. We also pressed, ran clock and used pressure to negate the talent disadvantage.

In other words, at the midmajor level, coaching is as important...if not more important...than talent.

I agree with what you are saying. But for facts sake, we have had 6 to put on an NBA uniform. Three have played in the NBA. Cacok would be the fourth to play in the NBA. We had two that were drafted, but never played a season.