Reeves did stop jumping at shot fakes so it's clear he was being coached. Other than that it doesn't look like they improved anything else and may have made matters worse. We'll see going forward. Hopefully every benefits and grows fro this experience.
How can you say that? Stop making excuses for abysmal coaching development. You bring in 4 or 5 players who did not even want to be Florida Gators or were not even recruited, and you relegate a potential NBA player to the bench. Worse, you have a worse season than when he was getting playing time as a freshman with the four transfers you gave all of his time to. He made the right decision. We had a first-team SEC Center and an All-SEC Freshman, and we barely made the NIT. If that is not underachieving, I don't know what is. We had three players that were 6-10 or taller and got outrebounded for the season. We had about 5 shooting guards and were one of the worst 3-point shooting teams in the league. You want to keep metrics. Let's keep metrics. Our team did not improve from last season in any single category, and despite getting all of the transfers that Golden wanted, we finished with a worse record. Something has to change here fast. Reeves should have left last year rather than wasting a year in this coaching internship.
^ Amazing post. Seriously quality hoops analysis. Not superficial, reactionary, or overly emotional at all.
I am surprised that Fudge, Jitoboh, and Aberdeen have not announced yet. It is clear that the strategy of Florida Basketball is to spend pennies on HS recruiting, wait until players become disgruntled at other schools, and then pursue these disgruntled players and hope that the new environment brings a new perspective. It worked with Castleton but has failed with every other transfer in the last 5-6 years.
why would Fudge, Aberdeen, and Jitobah care about our HS recruiting? They care about our development of upper division players—them—into next level players.
Golden is trying to get more pgs from the portal. What role does Aberdeen have in the future at Florida? He would be crazy to stay on this team. And Fudge’s talent does not mesh with a program that is committed to chucking 3 pointers at a team average of barely 30%. the fact that the coaching staff consistency died with a commitment to 3 point shooting or ineptitude thereof raises questions as to their attention to metrics.
Are you seriously asking me this question? Why would I not be concerned about the manner in which new players come to the program?
Reeves wasn't relegated to the bench. He played 20+ minutes in 17 of 31 games. Took 10 or more shots in 7 SEC games. Shot 50% or better in just 2 of those games and had 3 SEC games where he missed every shot he attempted. He had a 8 game stretch in the middle of the season where he was 16-52 from the floor, 4 assists and 8 turnovers.
If we don’t find some players, it will be. This league is as good if not better than I can remember. And that’s with UK being meh. Come to think of it, FAU is damn good. ScUM is blowing out a 4 seed. These are not positive developments.
In basketball, things can dramatically improve in one year, and sometimes just because of one player. I’m not saying it will happen, but it definitely is possible.
That's very true. You see low- to mid-majors you've never heard of explode in the NCAAT due to one great player. Sometimes you have a big dropoff just losing one player too. When the '94 Gators Final Four team lost just one starter--Craig Brown--I thought we'd be a great team anyway the next season. But we weren't. We were a pretty good team, but missing that one extra outside shooter took a lot of points and leadership off the board.
Agree, Reeves was given plenty of chances this season but his poor play gave the staff no choice to cut his playing time. Reeves obviously has talent but until he figures things out, I don’t think a third coaching staff will have any more success getting positive results out of Reeves than the previous two did.
