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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
This season - and esp the NCAAT - exposed some serious fault lines in Bill Self's coaching philosophy. His lack of offensive imagination, total disdain for ball security, and inability to recruit any shooters put him at a major disadvantage vs the top teams.
Tomorrow night, Pomeroy's #1 offensive efficiency team in his 13 years of ratings (Wisky) will play for the title. They will face Duke, his #3 team this year. #2 Notre Dame came within an eyelash of knocking off Kentucky last week and probably should have. Any pattern here? Self's obession with defense and not giving up the easy bucket wins at a tremendous clip in the regular season and it's damn consistent on an annual basis. But in a tourney it's a flop.
Wisky put up 1.28 points/possession this year. They faced Kentucky who allowed only .86/possession. So we had the top offense in Pomeroy history vs the top defense. Wisky ran at an insane 1.22 clip last night and won by 7.
Net: If BIll Self believes "defense wins championships", he isn't watching the Tourney this year. He needs to change with the times.
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Good post. Self simply isn't looking at guys like Dekker, Kaminsky, and Koenig. These are three great basketball players. We continually get great prospects and athletes which looks great for the media guide but falls flat when a game NEEDS to be won.
Too many times Self is taking the easy way out and simply flipping through rivals and visiting the top ranked players. There has to be more to his position than that.