Best Coach at the Crossroads Classic?

[hamcoboiler]

Not Crean, Not Brey, Not Painter. I would go with Holtmann.

His game plan against Purdue was really good. The opposite wing defender took away the lob by staying near the baseline on the help line and the undersized and often quicker center's for Butler fronted. I have not seen anyone do this to Purdue this year.

Instead of Purdue countering with a lineup of pure shooters (Mathias at point) and more post feeds from the high posts or top of the key Purdue kept trying to throw the ball inside from the wing.

Early in the season when teams were completely over matched on the interior and they would have every defender keep a foot in the lane, Purdue didn't hesitate to fire away from 3. This game Purdue decided to go at the Butler bigs and Purdue never adjusted to Butler's defense.

A missed 3 with Hammons, Swannigan, & Edwards on the floor can turn into a post feed.

 

[troggy]

You're right about the wing thing. It was easier for Butler to bring help from the weak side when the entry pass came in from the wing. Purdue's guards need to drive the basketball more though to add another dimension to their offense.

Butler did lots of things right, defensively, including rebounding, even after doubling the post. Purdue had to have openings on the perimeter but the ball never went back out there.

 

[cprh9u]

Not Crean, Not Brey, Not Painter. I would go with Holtmann.

His game plan against Purdue was really good. The opposite wing defender took away the lob by staying near the baseline on the help line and the undersized and often quicker center's for Butler fronted. I have not seen anyone do this to Purdue this year.

Instead of Purdue countering with a lineup of pure shooters (Mathias at point) and more post feeds from the high posts or top of the key Purdue kept trying to throw the ball inside from the wing.

Early in the season when teams were completely over matched on the interior and they would have every defender keep a foot in the lane, Purdue didn't hesitate to fire away from 3. This game Purdue decided to go at the Butler bigs and Purdue never adjusted to Butler's defense.

A missed 3 with Hammons, Swannigan, & Edwards on the floor can turn into a post feed.

Yes, easily Holtmann. Painter lost and didn't have our guys prepared. Obviously Crean is a below average coach and he beat Brey. I would go Holtmann, Crean, Brey and then Painter from this weekend. We should have lost by 15-20 but Swanigan bailed us out at the end. Hopefully Painter can get things going against Vandy.

 

[KellenPatrick]

Indiana beat Nd so that means Crean is better than Brey, huh?? Lollll.

 

[rjmpu82]

one game does not a coach make

 

[mathboy]

one game does not a coach make

I like this pick and choose. Let's see, Crean beat #1 UK... once, and he beat Painter twice... so he must be the best coach in the Midwest. Can't understand why the IU faithful have a problem with him.

 

[boiler62]

Not Crean, Not Brey, Not Painter. I would go with Holtmann.

His game plan against Purdue was really good. The opposite wing defender took away the lob by staying near the baseline on the help line and the undersized and often quicker center's for Butler fronted. I have not seen anyone do this to Purdue this year.

Instead of Purdue countering with a lineup of pure shooters (Mathias at point) and more post feeds from the high posts or top of the key Purdue kept trying to throw the ball inside from the wing.

Early in the season when teams were completely over matched on the interior and they would have every defender keep a foot in the lane, Purdue didn't hesitate to fire away from 3. This game Purdue decided to go at the Butler bigs and Purdue never adjusted to Butler's defense.

A missed 3 with Hammons, Swannigan, & Edwards on the floor can turn into a post feed.

Hamco you are right on us needing to make more feeds from ft line or head of the key to eliminate any weak side help!

 

[depthcharge623]

I wondered about the shooting too. When things weren't working the way they were going, why not put 3-4 shooters in and just try to work for an open shot beyond the arc? Why not have Matthias, Cline, and Stephens in at once? I would probably say put Vince at the 4, but in retrospect it's hard to sit Biggie when he was making his shots, especially two threes. Certainly seemed worth a shot when we were getting beat so bad.

 

[BoilerDaddy]

I wondered about the shooting too. When things weren't working the way they were going, why not put 3-4 shooters in and just try to work for an open shot beyond the arc? Why not have Matthias, Cline, and Stephens in at once? I would probably say put Vince at the 4, but in retrospect it's hard to sit Biggie when he was making his shots, especially two threes. Certainly seemed worth a shot when we were getting beat so bad.

It was hard to take Davis out much because he was playing great on the defensive end of the court. Edwards, on the other hand, really was struggling. He should bounce back, but he seemed to lose confidence for this one game.

 

[depthcharge623]

It was hard to take Davis out much because he was playing great on the defensive end of the court. Edwards, on the other hand, really was struggling. He should bounce back, but he seemed to lose confidence for this one game.

He came out so aggressive, and it seemed to be working early on. But them he kind of flat lined (I assume because they made adjustments).

Your comment about Davis makes sense. Maybe he could have gone Matthias, Stephens, Cline, Davis, and Hammons/Haas/Swanigan?

 

[FleeTheScene]

I would agree that I think Butler's coach had the best gameplan going in and his guys executed very well. I do want to say about Crean though that his team was also down big and didn't give up. Say what you want to about Indiana and their defense, they really stepped it up in the second half and all the wide open looks ND got in the first half were gone.