Fire Dave Paulsen / Hire Tony Skinn

[sleeperpick]

That would be horrific for recruiting...

He was head recruited on polite and Henry as well as AJ, Oduro, Javon and XJ... so if you don’t think we have a recruiting issue Simpkins might be your guy

 

[GSII]

I would bet anything Simpk could sign higher caliber players.

 

[Falco]

That would be horrific for recruiting...

True, its a stupid idea.

 

[Patriot8]

He was head recruited on polite and Henry as well as AJ, Oduro, Javon and XJ... so if you don’t think we have a recruiting issue Simpkins might be your guy

I mean firing the head coach and having an assistant be the interim in the equivalent of a “prove it” season. It’d be incredibly difficult to get a quality kid to commit to a coach that they aren’t sure will still be there when they get on campus.

Now if they want to go the Simpkins route, give him 4 years at a bargain price, and give him some money to go out and find a new lead recruiter (like making Tony Skinn an offer he can’t refuse to leave SHU) then who knows. Bottom line, the Simpkins interim idea has a 0.00001 chance of happening.

 

[mason lawyer]

Is there anything Paulsen can do to get fired this year?

 

[sleeperpick]

Is there anything Paulsen can do to get fired this year?

Really want to answer this but have been threatened to be banned by admin twice in a week so I’ll say nothing

 

[mkaufman1]

Is there anything Paulsen can do to get fired this year?

hire strippers for recruits

 

[GSII]

hire strippers for recruits

Or be accused of.

 

[Mason2005]

Should there be a look into DPs practices. He talks about it a lot obviously. How many players have been injured under him.

Mar
Grayer
Otis
Boyd
Kier
Reuter
Daddy

 

[smccart5]

I absolutely hate this "hand off" offense at the top of the key. Defenders always jump up and stop our guy getting the ball. He then has to stand there, and then it basically becomes a 1:1 situation. The offense completely stalls. It is TERRIBLE!

Two questions: What is this offense called, and can someone show me an example of a team that runs this offense effectively? Whether in the NBA or college hoops? In order to better evaluate it, i'd like to see a team that runs it effectively

 

[patriot2000]

Should there be a look into DPs practices. He talks about it a lot obviously. How many players have been injured under him.

Mar
Grayer
Otis
Boyd
Kier
Reuter
Daddy

I said this last year. Or, rather, posed it as a question. I felt that I don't follow any other team closely enough to know of this level of injury is "normal" and also wasn't sure if I was correct that many issues seemed to be coming from practice, not games.

At that time most were fairly high on Coach and mostly were only criticising him for "lying to us" about Reuter. I was shut down and told I was wrong. I believed in Coach and accepted that answer.

How about now? Anyone change their mind? Another season of under-achieving due to injury and a lack of true A-10 level depth. The training staff is headed up by some of the same folks that go all the way back to the Cuban era. What changed? Really that much bad luck? Change of philosophy in the training and conditioning staff? Or a problem unrelated to that staff?

Or, is this normal from an injury perspective and the real problem is roster management and lack of depth?

 

[sleeperpick]

I said this last year. Or, rather, posed it as a question. I felt that I don't follow any other team closely enough to know of this level of injury is "normal" and also wasn't sure if I was correct that many issues seemed to be coming from practice, not games.

At that time most were fairly high on Coach and mostly were only criticising him for "lying to us" about Reuter. I was shut down and told I was wrong. I believed in Coach and accepted that answer.

How about now? Anyone change their mind? Another season of under-achieving due to injury and a lack of true A-10 level depth. The training staff is headed up by some of the same folks that go all the way back to the Cuban era. What changed? Really that much bad luck? Change of philosophy in the training and conditioning staff? Or a problem unrelated to that staff?

Or, is this normal from an injury perspective and the real problem is roster management and lack of depth?

I can answer parts of this. First off, been on Fire Paulsen train for close to two seasons now. Loved his first and second years but absolutely have hated the rest. I hoped year 3 was a fluke but it seemed to be more of a sign for things to come.

We do not have the depth of talent to replace any injuries to our core guys. I really believe if AJ got hurt beginning of season we would be an 8 win team. Surprisingly Javon and AJ with their play styles of being out of control and always taking hard fouls/falls have not had more serious injuries.

Every team gets hurt but depth usually can mask it. The A-10 and mid majors are a bit different. Look at Bona's record when Osun was out with injury (they don't have any back up bigs that could level them out and they got crushed). UNC this year is interesting as well when they had 4-5 of their best players out they didn't have the depth to make up for it (I will say other teams recovery times seem to be much shorter than our players... but that can't be quantified as anyones fault because they are freak injuries).

Other than Daddy who has gotten injured in games and not practices? Off the top of my head Otis, Kier, and Boyd all were injured at practice. I can't remember about Mar because honestly he is so forgettable last two years.

I do wonder if they practice too hard but I am all for that honestly. I just wish we had 12 guys each year capable of playing in the A-10 and we clearly don't. We need to recruit better because the injuries our program constantly gets afflicted with probably aren't going to go away.

No team ever is completely healthy so the BS excuse our fans constantly make about that drives me nuts. Other teams are just more prepared and equipped to plug players in as stop gaps or as alternate contributors. We don't have that. If you told me XJ would be our 3rd best player this year I would call you a liar but it is happening.

 

[tblack33]

I absolutely hate this "hand off" offense at the top of the key. Defenders always jump up and stop our guy getting the ball. He then has to stand there, and then it basically becomes a 1:1 situation. The offense completely stalls. It is TERRIBLE!

Two questions: What is this offense called, and can someone show me an example of a team that runs this offense effectively? Whether in the NBA or college hoops? In order to better evaluate it, i'd like to see a team that runs it effectively

^^^This. Anyone who calls our offense a motion offense (or any variation of a motion offense) has never seen an actual motion offense.

I've seen a variation of what we run done at the high school level, it's usually used for teams that have 1 amazing 1v1 player surrounded by guys who are below average talent/basketball IQ wise. It's a super structured offense that doesn't lend well to exploiting any defensive weaknesses besides a 1 on 1 situation at the top of the key. It's incredibly easy to scout and incredibly hard to make adjustments out of without completely changing your formation.

 

[tblack33]

I can answer parts of this. First off, been on Fire Paulsen train for close to two seasons now. Loved his first and second years but absolutely have hated the rest. I hoped year 3 was a fluke but it seemed to be more of a sign for things to come.

We do not have the depth of talent to replace any injuries to our core guys. I really believe if AJ got hurt beginning of season we would be an 8 win team. Surprisingly Javon and AJ with their play styles of being out of control and always taking hard fouls/falls have not had more serious injuries.

Every team gets hurt but depth usually can mask it. The A-10 and mid majors are a bit different. Look at Bona's record when Osun was out with injury (they don't have any back up bigs that could level them out and they got crushed). UNC this year is interesting as well when they had 4-5 of their best players out they didn't have the depth to make up for it (I will say other teams recovery times seem to be much shorter than our players... but that can't be quantified as anyones fault because they are freak injuries).

Other than Daddy who has gotten injured in games and not practices? Off the top of my head Otis, Kier, and Boyd all were injured at practice. I can't remember about Mar because honestly he is so forgettable last two years.

I do wonder if they practice too hard but I am all for that honestly. I just wish we had 12 guys each year capable of playing in the A-10 and we clearly don't. We need to recruit better because the injuries our program constantly gets afflicted with probably aren't going to go away.

No team ever is completely healthy so the BS excuse our fans constantly make about that drives me nuts. Other teams are just more prepared and equipped to plug players in as stop gaps or as alternate contributors. We don't have that. If you told me XJ would be our 3rd best player this year I would call you a liar but it is happening.

Agreed on most points there, I think that this is mostly a depth issue. Have we had shittier luck the last two years on the injury front? Yeah absolutely. But it's also an absolute miracle that Otis didn't get hurt his first 3 years playing 38 minutes a night. Paulsen's first two seasons the only injury that jumps out at me is Shevon's lingering foot issue (which predates his arrival at Mason).

Our issue is there is no next man up. Our roster construction defies all logic and is somehow light at every single position.

 

[By George.]

XJ... if this kid finds a shot and stops the ole defense he could be special.

Would probably include Miller but Paulsen utilizes him completely wrong and it just doesn't work having him be the 2nd option on a team that you are trying to compete with. He is not that player

EDIT will include Miller so we have 4 right now currently healthy

save the Hartwell, Oduro, Calixte, or Mar BS.

Maybe we should use Oduro more?

 

[tblack33]

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Maybe we should use Oduro more?

Give him every single one of Mar's minutes and see what he can do with them.

 

[Mason32]

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Maybe we should use Oduro more?

Maybe he should learn to defend without fouling

 

[sleeperpick]

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Maybe we should use Oduro more?

can't afford another person in the game that doesn't play a lick of defense.

 

[Mason32]

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Maybe we should use Oduro more?

Also this is like saying in football you should only run passing plays because it gets more yards per play. Not that simple

 

[gmujim92]

^^^This. Anyone who calls our offense a motion offense (or any variation of a motion offense) has never seen an actual motion offense.

I've seen a variation of what we run done at the high school level, it's usually used for teams that have 1 amazing 1v1 player surrounded by guys who are below average talent/basketball IQ wise. It's a super structured offense that doesn't lend well to exploiting any defensive weaknesses besides a 1 on 1 situation at the top of the key. It's incredibly easy to scout and incredibly hard to make adjustments out of without completely changing your formation.

I know I’m just making excuses because I’m madly in love with the coach and want to have his baby, but don’t we have to acknowledge that this offense was tailored to fit an excellent 1 on 1 player who has barely played this season because of injury?

The only other guy on the roster who can do what Kier does is XJ and he’s a freshman. Not surprising at all that the offense is struggling — it’s not like you can just put in a whole new system in the middle of the season.