TXAggie2011 said:
Injuries happen, matchups change, and you have to adjust to those.
But a team that has to wholesale change their philosophy and scheme because of an injury, or two, likely isn't recruiting properly and/or developing the players and roster properly.
You may have to if you one of those great, transformative players but these guys we've lost aren't at that level.
I think some of us are kind of talking about different things at this point, because I also don't think we've exactly done a bang up job on the coaching front this season by any stretch.
But the offseason sell was moving from being a deliberate front-court focused team to being a more up-tempo backcourt-focused team. Part of that was shooting more threes.
So, I don't think we've 'wholesale changed our philosophy' from what it was going to be because of the injuries. It does appear that we're still trying to push the tempo and play more of an open style most of the time, it's just not working, at all.
What I'm saying is that it's hard to fault Kennedy for how it currently looks since the team that we were hearing about and the one that we're seeing are very different. Having two of your best three guards missing is a huge deal, especially at the beginning of the season, and especially when the new scheme you're trying to run hinges on quality guards.
Now... whether the transition to that system was ever really going to work anyway, why we're so bad at some of the basics of the game, how our roster is in the shape it's in, etc, those are all still more than valid complaints.