That's team offense, not big man skills. But, yes.
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2025 Offseason Player Movement
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When the 5, specifically, has to have those skills, it's a big man skill. "Not rocket science."
Yes, and Harding and JD had different roles. Interesting that it seemed we had two offenses for 2 different centers. A good coach designs an offense to put players in position to utilize their particular skills and score.
We didn’t have two different offenses.
We had a guy who could not play with the ball in his hands and struggled to finish at the basket so the rest of the guys on the floor with him had to play differently when he was out there.
If he returns next year he either has to get much better with the ball (ball handling, passing) and finishing, or he can only avg about ten min a game tops or we will struggle.
Former NBA Center Clifford Ray (Golden State) has been a "go to" guy for coaching bigs for years...he's developed guys like Al Jefferson, Kendrick Perkins, Dwight Howard. There are guys who specialize in developing big men. Ray specialized in defense and rebounding technique.
We need to just follow the St Mary’s coaches to Australia and/or Eastern Europe and recruit the same guys they do. The Gaels always have a couple of 6’10” guys that are comfortable with the ball in their hands with great court awareness
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sycamore tuff
The Wade Level
Like I told my son when he wanted a haircut, "back in my day, guys had long hair".
Anyway, very happy that Vorst is returning. He is my favorite player.
sycamore tuff
The Wade Level
Quit biting his earIf you and I having discussions on here were a boxing match… I would be Iron Mike and you would be everyone else.
Man, Powell ain't got no shot. Felt like he did a good job recruiting and coaching only to get absolutely shit on by his players.
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Something we may see come from this is talented assistants may stop leaving for mid-major jobs.
Bet Powell wishes he stuck at Gonzaga at this point.
Or we're going to start seeing head coaches at mid-majors bolting to take assistant roles more often.
Bet Powell wishes he stuck at Gonzaga at this point.
Or we're going to start seeing head coaches at mid-majors bolting to take assistant roles more often.
"Thanks to coach Powell and Valpo for all you did for me. With that being said...."
The hard part for Valpo to swallow right now is that they didn’t even get much out of all the guys who left.
Yea we lost a ton after last year, but we got a memorable season out of it at least. Sell out crowds, regular season championship, national attention etc.
Valpo finished 11th? And then still lost everyone. You would hope if you are going to lose all of your starters it is because you had a wonderful season. Valpo lost a ton and never even got much joy out of the season to begin with.
Can understand how jaded they must feel about the whole thing right now.
Yea we lost a ton after last year, but we got a memorable season out of it at least. Sell out crowds, regular season championship, national attention etc.
Valpo finished 11th? And then still lost everyone. You would hope if you are going to lose all of your starters it is because you had a wonderful season. Valpo lost a ton and never even got much joy out of the season to begin with.
Can understand how jaded they must feel about the whole thing right now.
Powell is a real easy guy to root for, feel bad for him. Seems like someone with a giant moral compass, this new climate is going to eat at him. Right man for the job, wrong time though
Prisonmate
The Varsity Level
Powell is great. "Right man for the job, wrong time" is the perfect description.
Valpo is going to have to be realistic about whether they can compete in the MVC in the NIL era given they have no money and no facilities. I don't think it's possible for them - they're just trying to survive as a university. They should be on the phone with the Horizon League or Ohio Valley or they could go 50 years without an NCAA Tournament.
Valpo is going to have to be realistic about whether they can compete in the MVC in the NIL era given they have no money and no facilities. I don't think it's possible for them - they're just trying to survive as a university. They should be on the phone with the Horizon League or Ohio Valley or they could go 50 years without an NCAA Tournament.
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The D-1 transfer onslaught is beginning now. Money over loyalty.
This is what I think will happen. And I think I've seen a couple instances already where this has happened the last week.
blueblazer
The Starter Level
And maybe they just wanted to see and support their friends
I'd even go farther. I think Valpo and Evansville, along with lots of other mid / low major schools need to consider if they should even be Division 1 at all. I might even be willing to throw ISU into that camp. How are we supposed to compete to when everyone else will rob the good players we have? We also basically play in a 1 bid league now, so barring a perfect 3 or 4 day run in St Louis, most teams in this conference aren't sniffing an NCAA Tournament any time soon. Then there's the House Settlement to pay former P5 players that played before the NIL era, and several schools are already considering dropping out of D1 so they don't have to be apart of that.