Regarding this disdain for coach's "loose" style

[coolm]

that so-called "loose style" that some of you keep griping about is the exact same style that:

1. buddy et al loved
2. excites kids about playing here
3. makes for excellent games

and it's why Trae will be here next season.

I challenge you guys to watch our shot selection. I'd bet you we have among the best shot selection in the country. Our shooters have excellent form and rhythm to their shots. It's all down to muscle memory now. time in the gym. This will be an excellent offensive team. A nightmare to cover.

I really dig coach's style. I think you guys are high.

 

[Chaser728]

that so-called "loose style" that some of you keep griping about is the exact same style that:

1. buddy et al loved
2. excites kids about playing here
3. makes for excellent games

and it's why Trae will be here next season.

I challenge you guys to watch our shot selection. I'd bet you we have among the best shot selection in the country. Our shooters have excellent form and rhythm to their shots. It's all down to muscle memory now. time in the gym. This will be an excellent offensive team. A nightmare to cover.

I really dig coach's style. I think you guys are high.

I really like this post. I agree, his style is fun to watch and to see the growth in our guys this year I'll add he's a great teacher of the game too...

 

[MsProudSooner]

that so-called "loose style" that some of you keep griping about is the exact same style that:

1. buddy et al loved
2. excites kids about playing here
3. makes for excellent games

and it's why Trae will be here next season.

I challenge you guys to watch our shot selection. I'd bet you we have among the best shot selection in the country. Our shooters have excellent form and rhythm to their shots. It's all down to muscle memory now. time in the gym. This will be an excellent offensive team. A nightmare to cover.

I really dig coach's style. I think you guys are high.

Saying they are high is a compliment.

 

[MichaelM]

that so-called "loose style" that some of you keep griping about is the exact same style that:

1. buddy et al loved
2. excites kids about playing here
3. makes for excellent games

and it's why Trae will be here next season.

I challenge you guys to watch our shot selection. I'd bet you we have among the best shot selection in the country. Our shooters have excellent form and rhythm to their shots. It's all down to muscle memory now. time in the gym. This will be an excellent offensive team. A nightmare to cover.

I really dig coach's style. I think you guys are high.

I'm not crazy about McGusty and Doolittle taking their man 1-on-1 only to settle for an 18-footer, but other than that I think you're right. And they do make them from time to time.

 

[sybarite]

that so-called "loose style" that some of you keep griping about is the exact same style that:

1. buddy et al loved
2. excites kids about playing here
3. makes for excellent games

and it's why Trae will be here next season.

I challenge you guys to watch our shot selection. I'd bet you we have among the best shot selection in the country. Our shooters have excellent form and rhythm to their shots. It's all down to muscle memory now. time in the gym. This will be an excellent offensive team. A nightmare to cover.

I really dig coach's style. I think you guys are high.

+1

 

[BCSooners]

that so-called "loose style" that some of you keep griping about is the exact same style that:

1. buddy et al loved
2. excites kids about playing here
3. makes for excellent games

and it's why Trae will be here next season.

I challenge you guys to watch our shot selection. I'd bet you we have among the best shot selection in the country. Our shooters have excellent form and rhythm to their shots. It's all down to muscle memory now. time in the gym. This will be an excellent offensive team. A nightmare to cover.

I really dig coach's style. I think you guys are high.

Agreed. Teaching them to play basketball and handling adversity now will pay dividends next year. How many games did we win last year bc our guys didn't panic and win in the final minutes? I can think of 5 at the top of my head.

 

[coolm]

Agreed. Teaching them to play basketball and handling adversity now will pay dividends next year. How many games did we win last year bc our guys didn't panic and win in the final minutes? I can think of 5 at the top of my head.

Most definitely. and the "plays" are mostly a set of reminders about basic 2 man and 3 man game fundamentals that way you get everyone on the same page. like NBA.

 

[coolm]

I'm not crazy about McGusty and Doolittle taking their man 1-on-1 only to settle for an 18-footer, but other than that I think you're right. And they do make them from time to time.

I do agree with you about McGusty and Doolittle. But I am intrigued that they dont get knocked around and they can actually finish. Knowing where their teammate will be on the pitchout will evolve that for them. just takes xp.

 

[chuckb]

that so-called "loose style" that some of you keep griping about is the exact same style that:

1. buddy et al loved
2. excites kids about playing here
3. makes for excellent games

and it's why Trae will be here next season.

I challenge you guys to watch our shot selection. I'd bet you we have among the best shot selection in the country. Our shooters have excellent form and rhythm to their shots. It's all down to muscle memory now. time in the gym. This will be an excellent offensive team. A nightmare to cover.

I really dig coach's style. I think you guys are high.

I agree. One of the knocks on Kruger is that he can't recruit. In the last 2 years, he's recruited his 2 highest rated players ever and one of the reasons why is the style he brings.

Pick your complaint!

 

[sdcloud9]

It's interesting because Sampson was successful at OU but micromanaged everything on the floor. LK is totally different.

OU's issue is a personnel issue (point guard) not a style issue.

He is responsible for the lack of a lead guard (development/recruiting, etc.) but that will be fixed next year.

 

[coolm]

It's interesting because Sampson was successful at OU but micromanaged everything on the floor. LK is totally different.

OU's issue is a personnel issue (point guard) not a style issue.

He is responsible for the lack of a lead guard (development/recruiting, etc.) but that will be fixed next year.

Yeah - he doesnt have the ego here that Kelvin had. I mean it IS indicative of their different personalities. But it's also a matter of the points in their careers that each came here.

I remember Kruger at KState in '88 and he was quite a bit different than today's version - at least on the floor. I also saw him as much more regimented then even with Mitch Richmond and that Henson kid as his backcourt. More set plays than now but still focused around excellent guard play.

He has had a couple of setbacks on the point guard side. Theyve been pounding the bricks on that one. Trae was a great get there.

 

[ousooners1baby]

I do think his style is fascinating. It does probably intrigue some recruits. Myself, i wasn't too keen on that few minutes of the game where it went away and thought Lon messed up a little. Everyone in the world, except for Lon, probably thought Buford was the wrong man to have in at that time and I did not like him throwing it in. I know it is on the players but there was no way that not getting a shot off after the timeout is acceptable. I know. It happens.

 

[snrlvr]

that so-called "loose style" that some of you keep griping about is the exact same style that:

1. buddy et al loved
2. excites kids about playing here
3. makes for excellent games

and it's why Trae will be here next season.

I challenge you guys to watch our shot selection. I'd bet you we have among the best shot selection in the country. Our shooters have excellent form and rhythm to their shots. It's all down to muscle memory now. time in the gym. This will be an excellent offensive team. A nightmare to cover.

I really dig coach's style. I think you guys are high.

I think the biggest difference in the coaching this year is no Steve Henson.... Kruger relied on him and he was an excellent assistant coach....

 

[SoonerBounce13]

I think the biggest difference in the coaching this year is no Steve Henson.... Kruger relied on him and he was an excellent assistant coach....

Henson is a great coach...but to claim that kruger needs to rely on him is a little wack imo. I'm sure there are adjustments to be made with a new staff but Kruger has been around awhile, he knows what he is doing

 

[MsProudSooner]

The secret to success for most coaches is to get the kind of players that thrive in their system. That's what's fascinating to me. Kelvin and Kruger are very different, yet when each of them finds the right pieces to the puzzle, they are very successful.

 

[WTSooner]

Our shot selection is terrible. Anybody that thinks otherwise either doesn't know the game, or is kidding themselves.

Too many of our shots you can tell guys are "shot hunting" before they even catch the ball. Too many chiefs and not enough indians. I think that is the expression. And we're adding a high volume shooting pg next year?

Something will have to give. There aren't enough shots for everybody that thinks they deserve a high volume.

As for Lon being "loose". So what? For every loose coach you name me that does well, and recruits well, I can name a hard a** coach that does and recruits just as well.

I don't have a problem with Lon being laid back. I have a problem with him not implementing stuff that would make us a better team THIS year. You want to run a wide open, player driven offense? Fine. When you have a bunch of seniors and juniors you can do that. But with this team? Clearly a different strategy would be better. Clearly for a team that has trouble creating, you run offenses that do the creating for them. Lon refuses. And it's been his MO as far back as I remember.

 

[CoachTalk]

Our shot selection is terrible. Anybody that thinks otherwise either doesn't know the game, or is kidding themselves.

Too many of our shots you can tell guys are "shot hunting" before they even catch the ball. Too many chiefs and not enough indians. I think that is the expression. And we're adding a high volume shooting pg next year?

Something will have to give. There aren't enough shots for everybody that thinks they deserve a high volume.

As for Lon being "loose". So what? For every loose coach you name me that does well, and recruits well, I can name a hard a** coach that does and recruits just as well.

I don't have a problem with Lon being laid back. I have a problem with him not implementing stuff that would make us a better team THIS year. You want to run a wide open, player driven offense? Fine. When you have a bunch of seniors and juniors you can do that. But with this team? Clearly a different strategy would be better. Clearly for a team that has trouble creating, you run offenses that do the creating for them. Lon refuses. And it's been his MO as far back as I remember.

You want him to go straight Flex this year? Or keep doing what we are doing and will be better for it next year?

Putting them in a slow it down offense and then switching back the next year wouldnt be a good idea to me.

We were real close all this year, it will make us better for next year.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Too many of our shots you can tell guys are "shot hunting" before they even catch the ball. Too many chiefs and not enough indians. I think that is the expression. And we're adding a high volume shooting pg next year?

I think the opposite. We have too many indians and no chief. About the only one that seems to "shot hunt" is DSM. Everyone else seems to take good shots imo.

 

[WTSooner]

You want him to go straight Flex this year? Or keep doing what we are doing and will be better for it next year?

Putting them in a slow it down offense and then switching back the next year wouldnt be a good idea to me.

We were real close all this year, it will make us better for next year.

I just want him to run some sets/plays. Instead of the same tired weave that every other team knows we run, and that doesn't allow THIS set of players to get good shots in the half court.

It isn't going to stunt their growth. If anything, if they are ready to play more open next year, they'd have this in their back pocket to run in special situations.

KU plays a pretty wide open offense. They ran a TON of set plays against us last night. Just about every one of those lobs dunks were off "sets". If KU can do it, we should be too.

 

[WTSooner]

I think the opposite. We have too many indians and no chief. About the only one that seems to "shot hunt" is DSM. Everyone else seems to take good shots imo.

Don't confuse having one guy that stands out talent and production-wise, with having one guy that is taking the shots, or leading the offense. I agree that we don't have the have the first one. I think we have too many guys trying to be the second one.

JMO.