With Baylor WBB winning the regular season B12 and reaching the finals in the B12 Tourney, the members of Team Mulkey are wiggling to explain themselves.
Reality: everything that the haters have been spewing since last Spring has been publicly proven to be utter nonsense. The Clan of the Clueless are trying to dance away from their idiotic positions but the internet is forever.
Reality: Coach Collen inherited a roster mess. She inherited 7 players and was able to obtain 2 more players at the late date. One of the inherited players was a complete malcontent. The staff succeeded anyway.
Reality: despite the limited numbers, the team was able to grow and thrive. despite the limited numbers, the staff was able to manage minutes in a workable manner.
Reality: Coach Collen inherited an incredibly undersized roster. Last year, the perimeter defenders were 6'1 Richards, 5'11 Carrington, and 5'6 Ursin (who could really jump). This year the perimeter defenders are 5'5, 5'5, and 5'6. None are great leapers. That lack of size causes defensive rotation issues, rebounding issues, and the rebounding issues impact the ability to create transition offense. The team nevertheless succeeded.
Reality: the staff was installing an entirely new style of offense. The new offense works. Allowing the posts players to catch the ball (1) on the move and (2) in space at the elbow, in the short corner, and at the mid post eliminates many of the constant double teams they faced last season. The idiots complaining about the O in December are rewriting history now.
Reality: the staff was installing a new defense, and it isn't the D they want to run. The roster is far too small to run the preferred Switch Everything Perimeter D. And if they ran Mulkey's switch nothing, go over every screen, soft show D……well that would be a disaster [still give up open 3s and wouldn't have any size on post help]. So the staff has done a nice job creating a Frankenstein D……sometimes over screens, sometimes under, sometimes switch. Sometime soft show, sometimes show, sometimes hedge, sometimes hard hedge. The team generally does a nice job making the right reads [Egbo continues to have issues].
Reality: Coach Collen has faced numerous hateful people in Waco. A Baylor coach going to lunch in Waco shouldn't have to listen to crap from the Angry Army of the former coach.
Reality: the staff obtained a Top 10 recruiting class is a super short window. The staff is fixing the damaged relationships with multiple summer programs left by Mulkey.
Reality: scheduling isn't easy when smaller schools who play for the $$$ are told that scheduling Baylor means that LSU is no longer an option. Spiteful nonsense.
Reality: one side honestly follows the term of the separation agreement, one doesn't. The term guardhouse lawyer comes to mind.
Reality: many of the "I was wrong about Coach Collen" crowd only admit their error in conclusion but conveniently ignore the false statements that their conclusions were built upon, ignore the personal attacks they made toward anyone whom disagreed with their nonsense, and ignore the false data that they cited.
Reality: the same people that make idiotic comments about this staff's game attire willingly ignored the garish choices of the past.
Reality: throughout the entire Baylor athletic department, the happy dance continues. Addition by subtraction. The new staff is a great bonus. Everyone rowing together in the same direction and liking the people around them is a solid change.
Reality: the changes aren't even one year into the process. Imagine the progress by year 3.
Reality: ask former players what they think. Ask other Baylor coaches what they think [privately]. Ask the Admin [privately] what they think. Ask the coaches of Summer programs what they think.
Reality: look at the budget position.
Reality: the Clueless Clan owes a ton of public apologies. And not basic "I was wrong" apologies but detailed "here are the hundreds of ways that I was wrong and acted like an ass towards folks that knew much more than me" apologies.
Get started.
Reality: everything that the haters have been spewing since last Spring has been publicly proven to be utter nonsense. The Clan of the Clueless are trying to dance away from their idiotic positions but the internet is forever.
Reality: Coach Collen inherited a roster mess. She inherited 7 players and was able to obtain 2 more players at the late date. One of the inherited players was a complete malcontent. The staff succeeded anyway.
Reality: despite the limited numbers, the team was able to grow and thrive. despite the limited numbers, the staff was able to manage minutes in a workable manner.
Reality: Coach Collen inherited an incredibly undersized roster. Last year, the perimeter defenders were 6'1 Richards, 5'11 Carrington, and 5'6 Ursin (who could really jump). This year the perimeter defenders are 5'5, 5'5, and 5'6. None are great leapers. That lack of size causes defensive rotation issues, rebounding issues, and the rebounding issues impact the ability to create transition offense. The team nevertheless succeeded.
Reality: the staff was installing an entirely new style of offense. The new offense works. Allowing the posts players to catch the ball (1) on the move and (2) in space at the elbow, in the short corner, and at the mid post eliminates many of the constant double teams they faced last season. The idiots complaining about the O in December are rewriting history now.
Reality: the staff was installing a new defense, and it isn't the D they want to run. The roster is far too small to run the preferred Switch Everything Perimeter D. And if they ran Mulkey's switch nothing, go over every screen, soft show D……well that would be a disaster [still give up open 3s and wouldn't have any size on post help]. So the staff has done a nice job creating a Frankenstein D……sometimes over screens, sometimes under, sometimes switch. Sometime soft show, sometimes show, sometimes hedge, sometimes hard hedge. The team generally does a nice job making the right reads [Egbo continues to have issues].
Reality: Coach Collen has faced numerous hateful people in Waco. A Baylor coach going to lunch in Waco shouldn't have to listen to crap from the Angry Army of the former coach.
Reality: the staff obtained a Top 10 recruiting class is a super short window. The staff is fixing the damaged relationships with multiple summer programs left by Mulkey.
Reality: scheduling isn't easy when smaller schools who play for the $$$ are told that scheduling Baylor means that LSU is no longer an option. Spiteful nonsense.
Reality: one side honestly follows the term of the separation agreement, one doesn't. The term guardhouse lawyer comes to mind.
Reality: many of the "I was wrong about Coach Collen" crowd only admit their error in conclusion but conveniently ignore the false statements that their conclusions were built upon, ignore the personal attacks they made toward anyone whom disagreed with their nonsense, and ignore the false data that they cited.
Reality: the same people that make idiotic comments about this staff's game attire willingly ignored the garish choices of the past.
Reality: throughout the entire Baylor athletic department, the happy dance continues. Addition by subtraction. The new staff is a great bonus. Everyone rowing together in the same direction and liking the people around them is a solid change.
Reality: the changes aren't even one year into the process. Imagine the progress by year 3.
Reality: ask former players what they think. Ask other Baylor coaches what they think [privately]. Ask the Admin [privately] what they think. Ask the coaches of Summer programs what they think.
Reality: look at the budget position.
Reality: the Clueless Clan owes a ton of public apologies. And not basic "I was wrong" apologies but detailed "here are the hundreds of ways that I was wrong and acted like an ass towards folks that knew much more than me" apologies.
Get started.
