Loyola Marymount offense from yesteryear…run it back
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That would like having Mouse Davis (run and shoot guy) as your OC and getting a tight end and a full back and running the football 70% of the time.
Pike adjusts! He’s not ideological that way. At Stony Brook he won with offense!
This team can get buckets and Ace will have to adjust his game to allow for team ball movement.
Ace can resort to Carmelo Anthony ball once the shot clock dips below 8 seconds.
When you are deep you can play pressure D and high paced O. We don't really know how any of these players will work out. But we do know that we have more players that are quality than just about everyone else we will face.
Effective fast break teams are usually good at defending and rebounding. Those Loyola Marymount teams relied on outscoring people by using high volume 3 point shooting and trading 3 for 2 on every possession.
Splash!
“Gibson” Martini can provide onions and “Purple-Rain-in’ Treys” Hayes can “spliccash” from deep.
Other dudes can dribble drive and collapse defenses.
Score 100 per game or don’t bother!
Defense isn't everything.
In 1989-1990, Loyola Marymount conceded 108 points per game and made the Elite 8, helped by an offense that put up 120. LMU scored 90+ every game, and 100+ in all but three games, including 149 against Michigan. Shot 56% on 2s and 40% on 3s, then pressed after every basket.
In Pike's 19 years as head coach, his teams have averaged more than 70 points twice. Boring!
LMU's coach that season was Paul Westhead. Paul is still alive. Pike should hire Paul immediately, then step back and let Paul run the team in 2024-2025. Not just the offense; everything including roster creation. Paul debuted transfer portal mastery by recruiting LMU stars Bo and late Hank from USC.
RAC tickets will sell like Taylor Swift shows if Rutgers runs and scores 100+ per game, while signing another top 5 recruiting class.
In 1989-1990, Loyola Marymount conceded 108 points per game and made the Elite 8, helped by an offense that put up 120. LMU scored 90+ every game, and 100+ in all but three games, including 149 against Michigan. Shot 56% on 2s and 40% on 3s, then pressed after every basket.
In Pike's 19 years as head coach, his teams have averaged more than 70 points twice. Boring!
LMU's coach that season was Paul Westhead. Paul is still alive. Pike should hire Paul immediately, then step back and let Paul run the team in 2024-2025. Not just the offense; everything including roster creation. Paul debuted transfer portal mastery by recruiting LMU stars Bo and late Hank from USC.
RAC tickets will sell like Taylor Swift shows if Rutgers runs and scores 100+ per game, while signing another top 5 recruiting class.
That's why I'm confident in this year's team
We can afford a couple misses with the new players and still have 8 or 9 very good players. We don't need every single new player to work out
Before his time at LMU, Westhead won an NBA title with the Lakers. He replaced Jack McKinney, who was badly injured in a bicycle accident. Ironically, Magic Johnson demanded his firing because his style was boring. That all changed at LMU.
Kimble averaged 35 ppg his senior season and shot 46% from 3.
But at @GreeneRiceFig keeps telling us you can’t play at a high pace and still hit your 3 point shots . . .
That was a veteran team, with freshman playing a combined 8 minutes a game. Not as easy to get young guys to make the same smart shooting decisions.
If you ever saw them play, by the third quarter the opposing team would be bent over with their hands on their knees trying to catch their breaths, and that’s when LMU knew the game was over.
If both teams are running the same amount there is no advantage either way…except to the team that’s deeper and/or training to play that way.
In our case, we couldn’t score so we had to exert intense effort on the D end to stay in games.
LMU trained to play that way and were incredibly conditioned. We do not play anywhere near the level LMU played, and while we play hard on defense, the games are not that fast and no one is blown out the way they were against LMU.
I have no idea what Pike has in mind or how the season will unfold. But I’d love to see Pike scheme around our one real strength…which is crazy depth.
Maybe during the season, but in the last few years teams who have had big runs in tournament have generally cut their rotations to as low as six to get to final four and beyond.
Generally. But this team doesn’t have 6 stars. It has maybe 2-3 stars we hope. But potentially solid contributors 12 deep.
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Interesting that LMU’s third leading scorer (2nd after Gather’s passing), Fryer, was basically just a catch and shoot three point specialist who launched 11 per game and hit at a 40% clip (old distance of course). And really only four guys had the green light from deep so it was certainly a well thought out strategy.
That's literally NOT possible. There haven't been "quarters" in men's college basketball since 1953 lol com'on man!!!
Yes, let’s hire an 85 year old who has not coached in 10 years.
He had a Philly connection with Bo and Hank, who really did not have a big impact at USC. That does make him a recruiting/portal wizard.
Yes. They’ve been elite in defensive metrics recently but I don’t see that for this year. There’s a chance their offensive metrics will be top 10 (even the RAC will be shocked and I can’t believe I even said that).
Didn’t half our fans expect us to score big numbers this year too? It’d be shocking if Pike completely eliminates D and aims to score 100 ppg. I guess we’ll see.
