Several years ago, Michigan’s now former head coach John Beilein acknowledged that he wasn't very good at coaching defense, so he went out and hired a new assistant as a defensive specialist and turned the defense over to him. The improvement was dramatic. It took a lot of self-confidence for Beilein, one of the best coaches in college basketball, to admit a weakness like that and then to go out and fix it. Look at the results! Would Fran be secure enough in himself to acknowledge that he has the same weakness and find someone else to take it over? Defense is one area in college basketball where coaching can make a huge difference (Wisconsin, Texas Tech). If Fran could find a new assistant coach who could also recruit some high level talent to PLAY defense, . . . .
Do we need a new assistant coach for defense?
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NikeHawk21
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Moreso than anything we need some better defensive players. As has been noted before Fran has had some teams ranked in the top 35 of defensive efficiency (KenPom).
When you are playing Bohannon and Garza big minutes you aren’t going to be a good defensive team. Those guys are liabilities on defense, it’s just that simple. Cook was probably below average on defense for the majority of his career.
Fast forward a couple years and if you ran out a lineup of:
Toussaint
Wieskamp
P McCaffery
Foster
Nunge
I think that group would have the making of a pretty good defensive team. Hopefully add another athletic guard in the 2020 class as well.
When you are playing Bohannon and Garza big minutes you aren’t going to be a good defensive team. Those guys are liabilities on defense, it’s just that simple. Cook was probably below average on defense for the majority of his career.
Fast forward a couple years and if you ran out a lineup of:
Toussaint
Wieskamp
P McCaffery
Foster
Nunge
I think that group would have the making of a pretty good defensive team. Hopefully add another athletic guard in the 2020 class as well.
