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| BTown11 | Apr 2 2008, 01:03 AM Post #1 |
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Researching on Wikipedia I found this: Crean's basketball philosophy involves defensive pressure and fast breaks. His style involves contesting each of the opponents steps on the court.[9] Crean utilizes the halfcourt defense, and requires great ball pressure, great help, challenging shots, and defensive rebounding. Shot selection is extremely important, focusing on spacing, inside-out attacks, penetration and kick.[49] On offense, Crean has a reputation for his magnitude of offensive sets and their multitude of options, with one opposition coach estimating about 400 different sets run.[50] Crean is also known to excel in public relations, charming alumni and press.[51] Crean started the tradition of Midnight Madness at Marquette, which was seen as an immediate success.[52] Between 1999 and 2006, the team saw a 70% overall increase in attendance, three total attendance records and 1.5 million fans passing through the turnstiles.[16] According to former Marquette athletic director Bill Cords, "He's done so many things outside of basketball for the good of the community and the good of people in the state." I love the coaching philosophy there, and he sounds like a good PR guy.. (just what we needed ) :priest:) |
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| mongo | Apr 2 2008, 05:39 AM Post #2 |
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Love the coaching philosophy, love he coached under Izzo, love he's squeaky clean, love his midwest ties, love that he's only 42....I love every second of this. |
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| eelbor | Apr 2 2008, 09:21 AM Post #3 |
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I did some research also. It appears this "Tom Crean" guy is actually an Antarctic explorer (in drag). Tom Crean was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer, from County Kerry. He enlisted in the British Royal Navy at the age of fifteen and in 1901, while on naval duty in New Zealand, joined Robert Falcon Scott's 1901–1904 British National Antarctic Expedition on Discovery, thus beginning a distinguished career as an explorer during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. That being said, I am looking forward to seeing an IU team that does not just stand there on offense and try to grow roots. Crean should have a larger recruiting pool available to him than he did at Marquette. I would like to see the motion offense happen again. If this were a perfect world, I would like to see Purdue recruit enough horses to run 40 minutes of full court press defense, and IU to run a stifling half court D. I live for high pressure defense in college basketball. |
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| lad04 | Apr 2 2008, 09:29 AM Post #4 |
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Yes, and as such, I think we need to nickname him "The Captain". Maybe taking a little out of the page of Bobby Knight and "The General", but come on, "The Captain" totally fits here. |
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| dçamden03 | Apr 2 2008, 12:19 PM Post #5 |
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As a fan of the Big Ten, the pressure defense is what excites me the most to see. With him implementing that style of D and teams like Purdue and Minnesota ratcheting up the pressure all over the floor, should be some fun, hard nosed basketball. One other interesting tidbit for me is that this past season, Crean had an assistant coach and his Director of Basketball Operations that were former assistants under Sampson at Oklahoma. I'd be interested to see if he tries to bring them along and if IU allows it, but I'm sure this has been talked about between the two parties. The DOBO by the way was part of the recruiting team at OU. Also, Coach Buckley, the former Ball State guy was an assistant. He would seem to be a logical move, and always seemed like a great guy. I would be glad to see him back in the state coaching. |
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“He’s always been a guy — maybe to a fault — he would always try to do what I said. That seems like something simple in coaching, but those are the guys I hang my hat on. We’ve had some guys in our program, we had a couple guys that felt I had a bias towards E’Twaun Moore. And they were right — I do have a bias towards E’Twaun Moore. I like guys that go to class, that are academic All-Americans, that come early, that stay late, that love the game of basketball. I am biased towards those guys. And I’m biased towards Rob Hummel. But I’m also biased towards their habits, their work ethic, and how they carry themselves." "I’d take him to the ends of the earth — I’d want him playing for me.” - Bo Ryan on Robbie Hummel
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| BigTenBigBen | Apr 2 2008, 12:36 PM Post #6 |
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You know that Marquette and UWMilwaukee play right across the street from each other. There was a game this year that both teams played at the same time and won within minutes of each other, both games with the same score. Pretty interesting. Both games started at 8:00pm on Jan 26. and both ended with a score of 79-71 http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=280260269 http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=280260270 Posted Image |
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| Rockspeed | Jan 15 2012, 07:30 AM Post #7 |
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Has his philosophy held true up to this point? |
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