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It's pretty funny actually. Jeff Goodman, on his twitter feed, gets the St. JOhn's fans' panties in a bunch over this.
Ha that's hysterical. Although Chris Mullin has forgotten about more basketball than Jeff Goodman will ever know.
Chris Mullin is an all time great player, but that doesn't mean he can coach. I'm not really sure he draws up plays at all.
I don't doubt Mullin can draw up a play....how can you play at the highest level at every level and not be able to do that. I don't see anything wrong right now with the way he's managing the program although I know we just love to hate everything SJU. His focus is on recruiting (which he's gotten off to a great start) and building a staff (which he's done a great job there too). Maybe he's trying to develop St. Jean as a strong bench coach for the future of the program. It's easy to cast stones at a first year coach when he was given virtually nothing to work with.
I have no idea if he'll be successful, but he's the kind of guy I would not bet against for sure and thus far, he looks like he's handled two important facets of the job extremely well.
I'm pretty sure you're right on that, didn't think the three strike rule applied to bench warnings,
My thing is last 20 seconds of the game and the head coach isn't in charge of the huddle or even drawing up the play. Hell he wasn't even in the huddle. That's just very weird.
Anyone else catch this? The Red Storm fans were not amused.
Jeff Goodman @GoodmanESPN 23h23 hours ago
Seton Hall escapes with a win over St. John's. Tough loss for Greg St. Jean and the Johnnies.
Jeff Goodman @GoodmanESPN 23h23 hours ago
Seton Hall escapes with a win over St. John's. Tough loss for Greg St. Jean and the Johnnies.
Oh I agree with you there. Jury is still out on whether he can coach. For every Fred Hoiberg there is a Clyde Drexler. But there is no doubt that Mullin was an extremely intelligent basketball player, and knows the game far better than a guy like Jeff Goodman ever will. Whether Mullin can translate that knowledge to player development and in-game decision making is the question.
It may be foreign to many, but I'll reiterate this again. Mullin has already said he's not going to be the guy who is working the white-board drawing up plays all game. He has said it to the media. This has nothing to do with his ability to do so. He's one of the brightest basketball minds and hardest workers to play the game.
Chris is a guy who was a pro late into his career and knows what makes good players and a good team. He wants players who think for themselves on the court and run the offense that they have practiced. It's a pro-style offense. There won't be a ton of set plays all game, and if there are, they will be things that have been worked on already. He's a big believer in player development through practice, repetition, and learning how to play the game.
It's fine if people think that it's a weakness that he isn't yelling all game and barking plays with a whiteboard and marker. You'll never see that from him though. This SJU team has 1/4 of the talent it will have next season and still took It to the wire against quite a few teams. While the jury is still out with Mullin, I think you will start seeing a very different SJU team next season with some talent. And Mullin is one of the least arrogant guys you will ever meet from what I'm told. Don't confuse that with ambivalence, because he's got a killer instinct and I think that is what SJU needs.
Chris is a guy who was a pro late into his career and knows what makes good players and a good team. He wants players who think for themselves on the court and run the offense that they have practiced. It's a pro-style offense. There won't be a ton of set plays all game, and if there are, they will be things that have been worked on already. He's a big believer in player development through practice, repetition, and learning how to play the game.
It's fine if people think that it's a weakness that he isn't yelling all game and barking plays with a whiteboard and marker. You'll never see that from him though. This SJU team has 1/4 of the talent it will have next season and still took It to the wire against quite a few teams. While the jury is still out with Mullin, I think you will start seeing a very different SJU team next season with some talent. And Mullin is one of the least arrogant guys you will ever meet from what I'm told. Don't confuse that with ambivalence, because he's got a killer instinct and I think that is what SJU needs.
I posted this on another thread when I got home from the game. It fits with this thread also. Just my opinion.
Don't tell me Mullen can't coach. Maybe he's not drawing up offensive plays in the huddle during games, but he shut down IW by running different guys at him all game, always bigger guys, forced him left and constantly bumped, nicked and scrapped him all day. A testament to IW that he never lost his cool and was so clutch when he had to be.
The other thing Mullin did was run some pro offense stuff: when he got our guys into foul trouble they just isolated on that guy and went one on one.
One other thing, St Johns scored a lot of points in their comeback off of broken plays and scrambles that resulted in made 3 pointers. I thought our perimeter d was pretty good but once they got Angel out of the game they just took everything to the basket.
All that being said, we still won against a team that was feeling no pressure what-so -ever. Our guys really had to make big plays, Desi's offensive rebound and kick to Carrington who made the 12 footer with under a minute left--huge. Anybody think we win this game last year?
Don't tell me Mullen can't coach. Maybe he's not drawing up offensive plays in the huddle during games, but he shut down IW by running different guys at him all game, always bigger guys, forced him left and constantly bumped, nicked and scrapped him all day. A testament to IW that he never lost his cool and was so clutch when he had to be.
The other thing Mullin did was run some pro offense stuff: when he got our guys into foul trouble they just isolated on that guy and went one on one.
One other thing, St Johns scored a lot of points in their comeback off of broken plays and scrambles that resulted in made 3 pointers. I thought our perimeter d was pretty good but once they got Angel out of the game they just took everything to the basket.
All that being said, we still won against a team that was feeling no pressure what-so -ever. Our guys really had to make big plays, Desi's offensive rebound and kick to Carrington who made the 12 footer with under a minute left--huge. Anybody think we win this game last year?
I think Seton Hall is playing very good ball btw. Unfortunately, without being able to make outside shots, teams like Seton Hall don't make it past first round, although I hope you guys do. It's just too limiting unless you get a great draw in ncaa's...
Been saying that since I first saw SJU play on tv this year. I thought the head coach was the guy you looked to in crunch time. Guess not.
Well, the first one was a "bench warning," for, I suppose, the coaches getting on the refs (probably should have been a T). The second one was a warning for "delay of game," when they didn't come out of a timeout in a timely fashion.