03-11-2021, 08:41 AM
If it were easy to predict the success (or failure) of any given coaching hire there would be no need for the Cardboard. Every school would have a great coach and win 30 games a year. Never mind the math of that outcome. Haase certainly appears to be in over his head as far as "managing" this team goes. It may well be he can recruit guys that he can't subsequently lead. It also may be that this team had personalities that nobody could lead, but in that case it is on the coach to not offer those guys.
Like many here on this board I do not expect Haase to be replaced for the coming year. I do think there is a non-zero chance he will quit, but even that is improbable. Next year, who knows? We have some good pieces, at least on paper. We lack a "big man", but the freshmen played pretty well there for a while. Da Silva is probably gone, and we do not have an "obvious" replacement.
What I don't grok is the degree to which our shooting fell apart during this "personnel issue". I can understand that lack of "cohesion" could lead to many fewer shot opportunities, but when those opportunities came we couldn't hit anything. Shooting isn't a "team thing". Yet the basket seemed to have a lid on it, and not just for one guy. Nobody could hit anything like their "normal" percentage it seemed. While I understand that one may be depressed by the "social situation", it is hard for me to grasp totally falling off a cliff in individual skills.
Like many here on this board I do not expect Haase to be replaced for the coming year. I do think there is a non-zero chance he will quit, but even that is improbable. Next year, who knows? We have some good pieces, at least on paper. We lack a "big man", but the freshmen played pretty well there for a while. Da Silva is probably gone, and we do not have an "obvious" replacement.
What I don't grok is the degree to which our shooting fell apart during this "personnel issue". I can understand that lack of "cohesion" could lead to many fewer shot opportunities, but when those opportunities came we couldn't hit anything. Shooting isn't a "team thing". Yet the basket seemed to have a lid on it, and not just for one guy. Nobody could hit anything like their "normal" percentage it seemed. While I understand that one may be depressed by the "social situation", it is hard for me to grasp totally falling off a cliff in individual skills.