I think this year's team is a wrap, we have no answers down low. I do believe we have the best collection of guards in the country still. Ian Jackson is having a really good year, Seth Trimble is having a step up year.
, Drake Powell is better than advertised, and EC is still a dynamic floor general. RJ is not looking as impressive as last year, but dude is balling.
How did we blow an opportunity to be really good this year? Washington is a back up big, Lubin looks like he is 6'8, Tyson well he tries hard. Withers looks like the only thing he has improved on is hitting a 3 in the corner from time to time.
This is not a terrible team to watch, but against anyone who has any quality bigs we are the under dawg immediately. I vote they roll the dice on HD one more year, he has a really good class coming in. If Seth sticks around I have high expectations. No way HD doesn't get help down low again next year.
I seriously mean it’s nice to have this positive outlook. Kudos.
But can you say Hubert has made this year’s team better - any player as an individual- or the team as a whole, given the known pieces / players he has - and all their strengths and limitations as individuals and as a team? Has he built game plans and coached them to optimize (get most out of what they are, stretch and challenge them) them as a team? That’s what being a good coach means to me. You see it often at smaller or lesser known programs who compete and win above average / expected level.
I see absolutely none of that with Hubert in 4 years, especially this year. If anything this team has regressed from early on. Maybe that is because through scouting teams can see how to play us and that we have zero inside game or threat. Ok - so what does Hubert do to adjust to that strategically?
All I see or hear is a bunch of “golly gee we need to play hard and smart and outcompete and hope for the best”. Empty BS that no legit high level D1 coach should get away with, let alone what should be a top 5 (top 10 at least) program and job in the nation
He’s had 4 years to show he can be a good D1 coach. I don’t see improvement or learning by him in any area. I seriously ask his supporters who ask for more time for him - what is one thing as a coach he’s improved on in his 4 years or this year? And that includes picking coaches / staff on his bench who can make the team develop, get better ie a big man coach, a shooting specialist coach, defensive coach, etc?
I’m out on Hubert no matter how this year ends - and I guarantee it’s going to end poorly. No way we make ncaa tourney - and likely won’t play in NIT. Making the NIT should be a humiliation for this program obviously, not a goal
