Tim Floyd probably gets more criticism than he deserves. He's been a successful coach, and I think the media overstate the idea that he just rolls out the basketballs and lets the players play without doing any, you know, coaching. At least, I thought that until I read this about his coaching approach:
An example of that approach was his ridiculous practice plan for the team yesterday, which he detailed to the press: "Floyd said he commenced the practice with about eight minutes of 'street ball' to learn players' tendencies and spent the remainder of the 2-hour-20-minute session emphasizing offensive skills. The coach said he might not implement any defensive schemes until the team begins practicing for the season Oct. 12."No defensive schemes? I understand that the fun thing to do is just sit back and watch O.J. Mayo play, but Floyd might want to watch Hoosiers a couple times before the season. Norman Dale was thrilled when Jimmy Chitwood showed up, but he didn't stop coaching.
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8-28-2007 @ 4:54PM
Brian said...
Weird.
Floyd's first order of business at USC was to get that team up to speed defensively and for all the offensive talent last year the talking points were always about defense. I think maybe he already has a defensive "scheme" in place and may just be observing the players to see what tinkering he needs to do once they're officially practicing.
Outside of Mayo, USC has a lot of underdeveloped offensive players so that's where they need more work. I'd wait this out, they should be above average defensively this year especially with one recruit considered the nation's top on-the-ball defender and Taj Gibson patrolling the interior.
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