Please DT,
- Thread starter Chairman Moe
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Apparently, we need more layups than dribbles…
As far as I am concerned, as long as Capel remains the head coach, DT should shelve "dribbles".
Next season is almost completely pointless if you keep Capel. Someone on the pay board mentioned a year or two ago that these donors aren't big fans of Capel and weren't entirely enthusiastic to throw him big money for NIL. Well, one can only imagine how that will go now. Why burn your money when you know he's going to coach them down anyway?
Why post this? Let DT do his Dribbles in good times or bad times. If you don't want to read them just skip over it.
I'm with you, Moe. But that would mean probably no more Dribbles the rest of the year from what we're seeing now. This Pitt team is one of the worst we've had in years.
This.
It’s simple, whether it’s about dribbles or anything else. Just pass by anything you have no interest in instead of being board police.
Totally agree
Listen - if you’re emotionally disturbed by this team by this part of the season -
That’s on you .
Have a cocktail and relax
It was a joke. Start a go fund me account and get some money for a sense of humor. Good Lord
Which is why Greene is going to have to sell Capel on giving up salary to pay the players "himself." I dont see why big money donors would want to throw away money on a lame duck year just to go 15-16. Might as well go 10-21 and save the money for Jerrod Calhoun's players.
With no money to spend in the portal, we may end up with guys like Jonathan Milligan, Monty Boykins, Ryan Murphy, Dan Oladapo, etc.
Just said it on another thread, but he should go get a bunch of pure athletes and just try to presss all game next season. The talent is going to be so low that you can't just play a halfcourt game (of which he is no tactician to begin with) and expect to be anything other than awful.
You can't press anymore. There's a reason no one does it. Need to play Jamie Ball or Devries Ball.
Not even with a 12-man rotation? The ACC doesn't exactly seem to be littered with athletic ballhandlers. I know I'm getting a bit silly, but what's the alternative? Capel ball requires future NBA talent. We'll be lucky to have future WNBA talent.
Oh I totally get the logic of lessening the possession when you have a talent disadvantage. But, kind of like running tempo in football, I feel like this is more about just trying to throw teams out of rhythm and hope their mistakes lead to some freebies. Even if not the press, it feels like this team needs some version of the hardwood triple option next season to mask gross talent deficiencies.
I have tried to come up with a theory as to why no one presses anymore and the best I can come up with is that players are much better ballhandlers now than 10, 20, 30 years ago. These kids all have personal trainers/coaches from elementary school on up. It also requires a ton of practice to become a pressing team. You have to give up practicing other things. I think coaches have felt it's not worth the bang for the buck to spend that much time practicing the press. Its not something you can do 15 minutes per practice. Its MOST of your practice.
Other teams press, pass, distribute the ball, and even play defense and rebound. You know, the fundamentals. They don't stress guards dribbling around the perimeter like idiots then making bonehead drives to the hoop at the last second to miss a shot. This is what Capel obviously practices and emphasizes. Fundamentals are his kryptonite.
No one presses anymore? I just watched one random game last weekend....St. John's and UConn. St. John's pressed very well and regularly with effectiveness. Of course, they have a real coach who teaches fundamentals.
Well yea players can be better ball handlers when they’re allowed to palm/carry the ball. That’s gotten way too permissive in college and the nba.
I agree, pittbb. I just ignore anything he says because it's usually gibberish or nonsense. He's barely literate.
You ignore reality regularly .
Yes. -it was a wild statement to recommend people too distraught to read a thread - to simply not read it
And also - get some mental health care .
Lots of teams press. They do it situationally. You don't see 40 minutes of hell, or what Pitino's teams did at Kentucky.
DT is one of the most level headed posters on here. Reading his Dribbles usually keeps me from getting either too optimistic or too pessimistic.
Let's just say DT is a rarity on here. He's actually readable and understandable and logical. It keeps us wackos focused.
What I saw of St. John's over the weekend was pressing in most situations. It eats up time and doesn't allow the offense to set up as quickly. But it's Pitino and he knows how to coach the press.
That’s rich coming from the board clown. You sound vaccinated.
I read the dribbles - like most do - to get the best details of what happened with the Panther BB team in their most recent game. I don't disagree, @JS School that DT tries to balance the good and the bad
My post here was said mostly "tongue-in-cheek", out of frustration. I actually liked the GT Dribbles 'cause DT didn't use the familiar excuses for the loss, unlike listening to Capel's post game press conferences (and Tomlin's for the Steelers and Narduzzi for Pitt football) which have become far too tedious
pitino has mastered it, he's the press guru. Hell, he was doing it with the knicks before anyone in the nba has ever tried such a thing..
i still have nightmares of the pitino press at louisville. only time i ever remember pitt beating it was with Sean Miller and Morningstar when he was at kentucky.
