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mrydel wrote:We'll be prepared because if we were to lose Sterling, Ben, Semi, and Shake, I would expect a little drop off no matter who is coaching.

hoopmanx wrote:Gottlieb isn't helping

hoopmanx wrote:I've been critical of Shaka since VCU, if only b/c I have no earthly idea why he was perceived a messiah when Capel and Grant were just as successful, minus a postseason run. That's like giving Jank all the credit if we run this year, when LB helped build this biznitch.

That said, I'm a Terp too and I learned a big basketball life lesson watching late 90s Terp teams, in some cases w/just as much talent as Duke, try to press them all over the court. What happened was easy lay-ups and uncontested 3s. VCUs style worked in a league who didnt have the same caliber of talent/athlete. Then, when they'd hit the tourney, they were the first team most P5s had seen, in some cases all year, that pressed end to end for 40 minutes. Shock value won them games in March. I dont know if that style works in the bigs, night in and night out. I guess we'll see, when he gets his own players. He couldnt have inherited a roster more unlike what he actually needed to run that system.