Was It Just Me? Anybody Else Notice?

[Zstatman]

BN's strength and conditioning program is legend.

 

[Northside Hawk]

right, but Fran's teams didn't look very athletic against the Robert Morris's of the world either. We're all trying to think of a PG that could dunk.

Mike Gessell had his share. He just couldn't shoot consistently. Bryce Cartwright from Fran's early teams.

 

[Hillcrest1981]

I don't think Gessell showed much hops except the dunk in the game at UNC....

 

[Zstatman]

I don't think Gessell showed much hops except the dunk in the game at UNC....

Is the game at UNC when he was driving down the lane and all of a sudden elevated and stuffed it? I still remember that dunk, remember thinking where the hell did that come from.

 

[ICHawk24]

I thought McCaffery's teams could easily play with these guys on offense. Unfortunately, it is when you flip the page to Defensive stats that the problem becomes apparent.

Because Fran's entire coaching philosophy was towards offense, which included defensive concepts that were dedicated to getting into transition and improving the offense. EVERYTHING was about offense. Seems like it is easier to be elite offensively when you barely try on defense.

BMC teams would destroy Fran teams.

 

[Northside Hawk]

I don't think Gessell showed much hops except the dunk in the game at UNC....

He had others. At Ohio State (the loss where Fran publicly called out Uthoff for running from the ball down the stretch). At Hilton and vs Cyclones in Carver. He had a few.

 

[kicker22]

Don't know how accurate this was as I watched the game while somewhat distracted, but in the postgame interview, Dolph mentioned to McCollum that there are three of his players (one was Banks, for sure) who all seemed to be the same size with the same skill set.

I'll take three high energy guys in Banks' mold as opposed to stretch forwards that don't attack the glass or the paint and simply shoot the ball well. Year after year it seemed like we missed a true paint presence, lock down defender, slasher, etc... if Doph only noticed three guys that are similar I'm more then ok with that.