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Originally Posted by SNR
Coaches change all the time. Coach K didn't always run his teams the way he does now.
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Yep, neither does Roy. After his post-Raef/Pierce swoon where we were putting up garbage (by our standards) squads, he ditched his stale 2-man game and went full-on blitz running the court. And this was a guy who worships Dean "Four corners" Smith.
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Christ, Bo Ryan basketball for YEARS was synonymous with the type of team you describe that gets regular season wins but can't shoot or win tough tournament games. I am absolutely shocked at the teams he's fielded these past two seasons. And don't get me wrong-- guys like Kaminski and Dekker are great players, but Bo Ryan has HAD good players on previous Badger teams. He chose to run white stick boy offense that MAYBE is good for a win against Ohio State or Michigan State in the regular season every other year.
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Ryan's a really weird case that I can't explain. It seems like his teams are doing mostly what they've always done (ball control, spread the court, getting open looks, not fouling on def) only with better players.
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Bo Ryan made a change, and it has worked. Self is capable of doing the exact same thing. Not that I would tell him when or how or even if he should make the change, and if he does what that would look like. I admit my cluelessness when it comes to specifics like that.
I'm just saying-- it's not like we're doomed to only watch future KU teams like the one we just saw in 2014-2015.
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Self must change, or he must bring in offensive machines like McLemore and the Morris Twins. One or the other. If he has those guys he can play his high-low and work it inside because teams have to respect the outside shooting so much. The last 2 years, they've packed it in on us and dared us to shoot and we've proved entirely unable to make them pay.