The most amusing thing to watch this year

[levance2]

will be: how much does Capel manage to get out of Stallings’ guys who went 0-18?

It was really hard to gauge how much of the losing was just lack of talent and how much was poor gameday coaching, poor development, and poor strategy.

It was interesting to see how much of the Pitt profile Dixon was able to employ at TCU right away with players he didn’t recruit. I guess I don’t know much about what style Duke uses these days, or how well that possibly translates from McD AAs to 2* players, but I’ll be very interested to see what areas of our game change most drastically.

I was one of the few (I think) that still liked what I saw in Stevenson all year. I’d be really excited if Capel and staff can improve his game. I also think JWF was very disappointing last year, and a new staff might be able to focus his talents a bit more than Rip van Winkle did.

 

[thebadby2]

will be: how much does Capel manage to get out of Stallings’ guys who went 0-18?

It was really hard to gauge how much of the losing was just lack of talent and how much was poor gameday coaching, poor development, and poor strategy.

It was interesting to see how much of the Pitt profile Dixon was able to employ at TCU right away with players he didn’t recruit. I guess I don’t know much about what style Duke uses these days, or how well that possibly translates from McD AAs to 2* players, but I’ll be very interested to see what areas of our game change most drastically.

I was one of the few (I think) that still liked what I saw in Stevenson all year. I’d be really excited if Capel and staff can improve his game. I also think JWF was very disappointing last year, and a new staff might be able to focus his talents a bit more than Rip van Winkle did.

I have to say, IMO what JD is doing at TCU looks nothing like the old glory days Pitt basketball that relied heavily on post play, ball screens, back screens, high-low offense, etc., as well as balls out man defense and hard core rebounding.

What he's doing at TCU looks to me like what he was trying--unsuccessfully--to do the last few years at Pitt, just with more capable offensive players. They are pretty efficient but they run a relatively free-flowing, fast offense--and they don't expend nearly as much effort and energy defensively as JD's good Pitt teams did.

 

[sonofabit]

Role players needed when talent is lacking. Positioning. Sum greater than parts kinda thing.

 

[PittPanther44]

I hope there are enough Other players in the mix that we really don’t get to see that.

What I would LOVE to see is a guy like Stewart or Carr crushing it for us in the 2020 tourney and we are saying “remember when they were freshmen...”0