Wade a lot like Dale Brown both could recruit

Will Wade = Kirby Smart of college basketball. He's great at recruiting (utilizing bagmen), but he is not a great coach when it comes to fundamentals and strategy.

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Will Wade = Kirby Smart of college basketball

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Thanks for the very original analogy

I guess it is just the nature of fandom...or just the nature of most people, but I find it absurd when people take essentially absolute "either or" opinion when in life rarely is something "either/or". There is almost ALWAYS grey area in between.

Wade has had the best start for a basketball HC at LSU in a LONG time. Maybe ever. And that was after taking over a program that had bottomed out on apathy. You don't do that by simply just "recruiting". You have to be able to coach as well.

Unfortunately, Wade appears to have an issue like Miles where despite good results he refuses to acknowledge there is a flaw in his coaching that is keeping his good (some really good) teams from potentially being great. For Miles it was his approach to the offensive side of the ball. For Wade, it's defense. It's not that neither couldn't "coach". It that both (at least to date for Wade) seemed wholly reluctant to acknowledge their approach to a certain aspect of the game is lacking. This, despite the fact it is painfully obvious to everyone else. Both appear to have a stubbornness, hubris, what have you, where they believe their approach is "right" and the only thing lacking the the players' ability to execute it despite the fact all objective evidence leads to the contrary.

DB had one of the longest consecutive NCAA tourney appearances in the nation at one point. Our program was very well respected. Making the NCAA was pretty much assumed back then where as now we still think it is a huge accomplishment.

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However could not coach the talent unfortunately

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well it was disappointing CJ, Shaq and Stanley didn't make the final 4 or win it all but he had teams with hardly any talent make the final 4 also...so he coached up teams and didn't perform as well with his most talented teams.

Quit comparing T-Pear to Dale Brown. Maybe you can start the comparison when he has 2 Final Fours and 2 other Elite Eight finishes.

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Will Wade = Kirby Smart of college basketball

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Not true at all. Kirby can’t coach Offense. Kirby Coaches Defense.

Will Wade is the exact opposite of Kirby.

Dales Teams could play D and at least run a basic offense. Wades teams can do neither!

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Dales Teams could play D and at least run a basic offense! WDes teams can do neither!

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The stupidity of this board knows no bounds.

Running a basic offense is for middle schoolers.

Dale Brown had some talented players, but they were never deep with quality depth like the blue bloods. He was known as a great motivator. The best talent year was when Shaq was a freshman and Chris Jackson was a sophomore. They only played 1 year together. I’m still excited to see what Will Wade can do!