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Roy > dean

Discussion in 'Charlotte Hornets' started by LarryD, Apr 6, 2009.

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  1. Apr 9, 2009 at 4:09 PM #191
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  2. Apr 9, 2009 at 4:11 PM #192
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    Dean won with a crappy team (relative to now) against crappy competition (relative to today).

    K won with a great team against the best competition to date.

    Both are impressive, but are like comparing apples to oranges. I would say the difference is akin to winning a college NC or an NBA championship. Different skillsets needed to make the teams win the gold.
     
  3. Apr 9, 2009 at 4:14 PM #193
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    Man, he beat a pair of sweet 16 teams and an NIT team? the guy is great! I mean forget the fact that he was 1-5 against the teams that finished ahead of him in the conference during the season, he beat an NIT quarterfinalist on a neutral court.
     
  4. Apr 9, 2009 at 4:19 PM #194
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    I'd agree with that. If I had to choose which team I'd want to coach to try to get a gold medal, I'd pick proven professionals over college kids any day.
     
  5. Apr 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM #195
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    you can stop. you already "proved" he's a shitty coach who doesn't deserve as a position at a D-II school, let alone a program from the top conference in the country.

    You (and only you) could make an argument that any coach in the ACC not named Roy Williams is a shitty coach. The game has passed them by.
     
  6. Apr 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM #196
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    Sure, and just the same, you'd want to play against amateurs from countries that don't even have professional leagues (at the time) as opposed to playing teams with NBA talent or at least professional basketball talent that have been playing together for their entire lives (which is often the case with the best European teams).
     
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    Coaches lose their spot at the top all the time, and it doesn't just happen in the ACC or Big East and it doesn't just happen in basketball.

    Sorry if your Orange tinted glasses don't allow you to see the obvious. It doesn't mean that Boeheim is a shitty coach that doesn't deserve a D-II job, it just means he's not one of the best in the game any more. Again, I'm sorry that fact breaks your heart. I feel your pain... I really do.
     
  8. Apr 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM #198
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    Before you count Boeheim out, wait till next year. Villanova and Syracuse should be competing for that top spot in the Big East if they don't have some unexpected defections to the NBA.
     
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    4 of the pro's on Spain's team were from the NBA. They hadn't been playing together their entire lives. I guess that Reneses is > K since Spain almost beat the US in the championship game with only 4 NBA studs...
     
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    the facts are these: The 1976 gold was the USA's eighth in nine olympics. The year they didn't win, 1972, they got hosed. After the boycott in 1980, they won again in 1984 before dropping to third in '88 (prompting the formation of the Dream Team.) Point is, Gold Medals for the USA were routine when Dean won his in '76. Why? Because the competition sucked ass. Dean did nothing -- nothing -- that any halfway capable coach couldn't have done. Jimmy Satalin would've led that team to gold.
     
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