With the commit of Ingram and I expect the reclass decision coming eventually from Cadeau, IMO, Hubert has had so far a much better off season than he had in season, I think he has done really well both high school recruiting as well as portal recruiting. I think I can safely say, the best part of Hubert so far seems to be his ability to recruit guys to UNC.
I think it was crystal clear after the last game, Hubert had to do 1 of 2 things, he either had to totally change the way he seems to want us to play or he needed to radically change the personnel. What I felt we had last season was a team more geared for the running game, the open court finishing, more a Roy style yet we played as a half court team. We had twin towers, with defensive specialist and scoring guards and guys like Puff, Styles, Seth, Dunn that would excel in a more running game approach. Hubert seems to prefer a more spread out offensive half court shooting approach that is hard to double team. Hubert reverted to mostly called sets from the side lines rather than free lance, Roy was push tempo and go in to free lance and called set plays only in specific situations. Because they relied so much on called set plays and per players didn't really work much on free lance if the set plays bogged down we had nothing but some end of the clock hero nonsense.
Great job so far this off season in my opinion Hubert, you seem to have now transformed your roster to the shooters your preferred style needs, that was critical so kudos for that. But in my opinion that was not the most critical aspect Hubert needs to change. The more critical aspect his HIS COACHING decisions in season, the man seems to be hard headed to an absolute fault, I thought Roy was heard headed but Hubert is taking it to a brand new level and I do think he made some very critical mistakes in having guys have to play thru their weakness rather than to their strengths. His personnel decisions, how he used both his starters as well as his bench honestly had me asking far to often, does he know what he is doing? When you position Leaky Black as a go to shooter, I have to ask, when you start 2 centers and have one act like a wing, I have to ask, when you try to play as a deadly jump shooting team with poor jump shooters, sorry but I have to ask, when one of your players goes 5 for 26 in a game and is encouraged to keep shooting, I darn well SHOULD ask ? This board is FULL of coaches, former coaches, wanna be coaches, and very long term rabid Carolina basketball devotees, telling me you didn't ask WTF? LOL
So great so far, did pretty much exactly what I wanted to see this off season but the real questions can not be answered until the next season begins, now you got the kind of horses you seem to need, what can you now do with them? If what you try does not work can you see and act on ways that can work or do you continue to double down on a failing hand, last season looked to me like he doubled down on a losing hand, has he matured to the point (as a head coach) of both realizing that as well as have a plan B in place even if it is not needed? I think just as important will he have the resolve to treat guys in similar ways, in other words not allow his starters to wet the bed, come out not really ready to match the other teams intensity and not worry about being pulled out of the game while a sub makes a single mistake and sits the bench for the next 2 games? Hubert has now shown he can change his roster and still have every solid talent but can Hubert change Hubert, that is the more critical question and we are going to have to wait till next season begins to see.
What do you think?
I think it was crystal clear after the last game, Hubert had to do 1 of 2 things, he either had to totally change the way he seems to want us to play or he needed to radically change the personnel. What I felt we had last season was a team more geared for the running game, the open court finishing, more a Roy style yet we played as a half court team. We had twin towers, with defensive specialist and scoring guards and guys like Puff, Styles, Seth, Dunn that would excel in a more running game approach. Hubert seems to prefer a more spread out offensive half court shooting approach that is hard to double team. Hubert reverted to mostly called sets from the side lines rather than free lance, Roy was push tempo and go in to free lance and called set plays only in specific situations. Because they relied so much on called set plays and per players didn't really work much on free lance if the set plays bogged down we had nothing but some end of the clock hero nonsense.
Great job so far this off season in my opinion Hubert, you seem to have now transformed your roster to the shooters your preferred style needs, that was critical so kudos for that. But in my opinion that was not the most critical aspect Hubert needs to change. The more critical aspect his HIS COACHING decisions in season, the man seems to be hard headed to an absolute fault, I thought Roy was heard headed but Hubert is taking it to a brand new level and I do think he made some very critical mistakes in having guys have to play thru their weakness rather than to their strengths. His personnel decisions, how he used both his starters as well as his bench honestly had me asking far to often, does he know what he is doing? When you position Leaky Black as a go to shooter, I have to ask, when you start 2 centers and have one act like a wing, I have to ask, when you try to play as a deadly jump shooting team with poor jump shooters, sorry but I have to ask, when one of your players goes 5 for 26 in a game and is encouraged to keep shooting, I darn well SHOULD ask ? This board is FULL of coaches, former coaches, wanna be coaches, and very long term rabid Carolina basketball devotees, telling me you didn't ask WTF? LOL
So great so far, did pretty much exactly what I wanted to see this off season but the real questions can not be answered until the next season begins, now you got the kind of horses you seem to need, what can you now do with them? If what you try does not work can you see and act on ways that can work or do you continue to double down on a failing hand, last season looked to me like he doubled down on a losing hand, has he matured to the point (as a head coach) of both realizing that as well as have a plan B in place even if it is not needed? I think just as important will he have the resolve to treat guys in similar ways, in other words not allow his starters to wet the bed, come out not really ready to match the other teams intensity and not worry about being pulled out of the game while a sub makes a single mistake and sits the bench for the next 2 games? Hubert has now shown he can change his roster and still have every solid talent but can Hubert change Hubert, that is the more critical question and we are going to have to wait till next season begins to see.
What do you think?
