UW // Zag bball series resuming

[ThomasFremont]

When romar actually figures out how to coach he may be able to take advantage of the prospective recruiting class. Sadly, the kids will need to rely on themselves to develop.

Disagree. Romar has actully done a pretty good job of developing players from a skills perspective while he's been here. There's a reason he gets so many guys into the league, and it's not that he's an ace recruiter. Guards, particularly, tend to flourish under Romar's toutelage, Abdul Gaddy notwithstanding.

The problem is that while Romar is great at developing player's skills, he's not great, or even good, at developing a cohesive offense. His development is good, but his X's and O's are bad to terrible.

Thankfully, it looks like he'll be going back to more of the flex offense and away from the high poast, which was just a terrible move for UW's personnel.

These new guards will develop pretty well, and a couple of them will play in the league. But none of them will play in the Elite 8.

I was referring to team development, not personal success after college. I really don't care what the guys do in the nba overall, I care what they do together at UW. Romar is a big part of taking a great amount of talent and making it worse as a unit.

It's nice to see guys do well in the NBA, but overall his job is to win with his players at UW, not make them into fine NBA players. Hopefully he's able to do both because it does lend itself recruiting when you can point to alumni in the NBA. More often than not, many of his players do well in the nba, which makes you ask the question what is the missing piece of the puzzle in college?

BTW, Romars inability to admit he screwed the pooch on the high post offense is the perfect example. It was a bad experiment. Wrap it up and go back to what makes you good. Instead, we have watched 3 years of inept play and continued mantra of "the team will get it next year".

Teams don't play offense in college basketball.

HTH

Yeah but still...

 

[FreeChavez]

Jerreau was capable of running the high post offense ... nobody else was. When he got hurt ... everybody was screwed.

Always a smart move to center a offensive change around one player who has yet to prove anything, or a recruit who never came. Romar has always been best as a teacher of defensive pressure and tempo. The last three years have been unwatchable.