Well I did say Fran should be applauded for getting the talent level we had here. The advanced stats are saying we underachieved based on what we had.
Gesell was extremely unclutch, so why did we keep putting the ball in his hands at the end of games? Let Jok and JU run a pick and roll. Give Clemmons a shot. Try something different. Anything.
It’s an interesting discussion and one we’ve had before. We basically rode a wave of nice instate talent to three tournament bids. We had a 1st Team all B1G Player (star) and a fairly veteran team in each of those years. Is that what it’s going to take in order to make the tournament under Fran? I guess my point would be to get to the next level Fran is going to have to prove that when he has a senior laden types team with a star or stars (JU & Jok), that he can produce better results than a 7 seed. If that is the case he’s going to have to do a much better job of evening his classs and he’s going to have to hit on a very high % of his recruits. Or he’s going to have to prove when he has a younger team, like this year, that he can push the right buttons and lead them to the dance. Last year he was close, but almost isn’t good enough in this profession.
Also just to be clear, and this discussion may be unrelated, but weren’t you trending toward the Fire Fran camp recently? Did the UW game change the tune a little bit for you? For me it was nice to see the talent that I thought we had prove that they can play (Garza, Cook, JBo), but I still wonder how Fran will right this ship next year.