Iohn Henson ex UNC Star on Field of 68 has a suggestion for Pope

[twwilliams9]

Says when he was at UNC they were playing terrible defense for a couple of games and at the next practice, they walk into the gym and there were no rims. Roy made em practice for 2 days with no rims, working on defense drills, ran and did sprints. It’s at the 21:00 mark

 

[bkimrey2]

I'd recruit a few bodies from the football team to play against our team in practice or hell, maybe join the team as rotational defensive players.

 

[fatguy87]

Dumb gimmick crap. Jon Henson at UNC played with a core group of players. They played together through thousands of defensive situations together in practice and games. Our current roster was cobbled together in the 11th hour. None of the players ever played together and only 1 player ever played for our coach. Maybe stuff like that can refocus energy for a team that has chemistry forged through years. "Try harder" isn't going to work for a collection of players who don't know how to defend as a team through foundational shared experiences.

 

[twwilliams9]

Dumb gimmick crap. Jon Henson at UNC played with a core group of players. They played together through thousands of defensive situations together in practice and games. Our current roster was cobbled together in the 11th hour. None of the players ever played together and only 1 player ever played for our coach. Maybe stuff like that can refocus energy for a team that has chemistry forged through years. "Try harder" isn't going to work for a collection of players who don't know how to defend as a team through foundational shared experiences.

Maybe Pope can pull a Zen Master Phil Jackson. Jackson would have the Bulls and Lakers meditate before games, burning incense during the sessions to set the mood.

 

[AJG-15]

Okay so have two power 5 coaches on our staff, former nba players , good offensive and sensible coordinators and they should listen to BBN and some guy twitter and YouTube’s?

If it something to figure out they will. Without a PG it’s going to be impossible. Brea and Jr were not re ruined to play at same time but to sub each other. Now because necessity they are playing together and you the result on defense.

 

[UK90]

I'd recruit a few bodies from the football team to play against our team in practice or hell, maybe join the team as rotational defensive players.

Or perhaps we could have them practice against circus animals next. Those lions oughta be able to instill some perimeter toughness!

Spare me the gimmicky nonsense. Yeah, we’re a bad defensive team, but I’m not sure how much we can do about it at this point. We only have about three guys (Butler, Oweh and Williams) who have the physical potential to be top tier D1 defenders, and one of those is out with injury and another seems to now fancy himself as more of a 7 foot tall point guard than a rim protector.

 

[twwilliams9]

Or perhaps we could have them practice against circus animals next. Those lions oughta be able to instill some perimeter toughness!

Spare me the gimmicky nonsense. Yeah, we’re a bad defensive team, but I’m not sure how much we can do about it at this point. We only have about three guys (Butler, Oweh and Williams) who have the physical potential to be top tier D1 defenders, and one of those is out with injury and another seems to now fancy himself as more of a 7 foot tall point guard than a rim protector.

This is true but our worst defense is against 3 pointers where athleticism isn’t required.