Re: Clemson vs UAB NCAA Tournament notes

I watch and play a lot of hoops. It is concerning to me how quickly we have forgotten about how this program was able to develop over the last few years.

Making the tourney four years in a row (BTW currently the second longest streak in arguably the most difficult conference) is to be commended and should be respected. But this is as a result of Purnell's hard work not Brownell's.

My point all year has been that we are watching a solid team with a coach that hasn't gotten in the way, but this team would have been here regardless of who the coach was. I would pile on that we would have done even better with the previous administration because that's what it was built for. It is the best defensive team we have fielded in sometime, that dedication to defense was OP's precedent.

I understand moving on and creating a new foundation with this staff, I am just not yet convinced that this is the right direction.

Don't confuse winning today with creating a top tier program which I thought could've been said with a couple of more OP recruiting classes. Moreover, could have been said if he got the facilities that he asked for and rightfully deserved.

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I think you might have OP glasses on...

Mar 15, 2011, 1:47 PM

While I appreciate what OP did while he was here, I know that what this team has done this year is because of the CURRENT coaching staff in spite of what OP left behind. We would not have made the tourney under OP this year. Sure he is a good coach and builds programs. But, this team this year is playing fundamental basketball and really only the later half of the season. They just were not coached on the fundamentals well until now. Again, nothing taken away from OP but he ran a system that caused problems for teams but nothing like the defense we run now.

If you think Brownell is successful because he hasn't "gotten in the way" you are mistaken. He has placed himself firmly between these players and some of the bad habits they had. He has injected a totally new offensive style which required almost half of the year to really learn. No, these players are here because of this coaching staff. If you don't know about the direction, you need to watch the tournament closely this year. You'll see that teams who play good defense and are good fundamentaly and run good motion offenses will be the ones that win most of the time. This is who we are becoming and if we get the players I think we will get, we will be in the tourney again next year even with losing Grant and Stitt.

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Clemson vs UAB NCAA Tournament notes

^^^ doesn't know anything about basketball

I might have missed one game early because of

Re: I might have missed one game early because of

I do... And I don't watch with Orange-Colored Glasses

I think you might have OP glasses on...

Ummmm....maybe I'm remembering wrong

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