@HighEliteMajor
Yeah, this is the best I have ever seen by any coach.
Any number of all time greats might have been able to do it, but I don’t recall any that circumstance forced them into doing.
The only thing comparable to this was the guys at NASA under Gene Kranz “turning this into this” to get Apollo 13 back.
I still have no clue how he did it.
I mean he shifted gears and redialed schemes so many times, that his shifting arm and dialing hand has to suffer repetitive stress syndrome.
It was virtuoso coaching in the middle of a fecal storm.
I don’t know how they won that game in Morgantown.
I don’t know how they won several games.
I don’t know how he masked how bad of a free throw shooting team this is.
I don’t know how he got so much scoring out of a post man that can largely only dunk.
I don’t know how he got by with Mitch as a back up.
I don’t know how he backed up all the perimeter positions when he only had Marcus Garret for a backup.
It is simply genius.
There is no other way to explain it.
Coach K, Roy, Calipari, these guys would all be .500 right now.
I’m not even sure Self knows how he did it.
That’s what makes me sure its a large portion genius.
Unless something comes out later indicating the college game is as fixed as it appears to be at times, this is the best coaching job I ever saw in a single season, even if he loses the first round of the NCAA.
If he makes a run for a ring with this team, then they should build him a separate wing at the BHOF.
Go, Bill, go!