It is one game , ya a big win in very tough place, but please don't for one second think that prohm is going to win a big 12 title or coach in the elite 8. Prohm is not some newbie coach like Fred who learnt on the Job, he has experience and this is his best, which is not very good.
Todays win shows the potential this team has, which Prohm is not able to bring out consistently.
Let these close loses be reminder he is a terrible coach and this is his 11TH year coaching
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I just don't get you people. There is no pleasing you. You people have been spoiled by five short years of success, and you're already stuck in the past. Why you would ever want to get rid of Prohm, I will never understand. You people don't seem to realize that we will not find a better coach to replace him -- nobody good or established will want to come here knowing we canned a coach after a Sweet 16 appearance and one semi-off-year without two players from the previous squad that ended up in the NBA/D-League. Constant coaching carousels is called "brutally murdering a [promising] program".
It's a stretch itself to say Hoiberg learn
ed on the job, considering how much time he had spent both as a player and as a front office person. It's not like he never saw how coaching worked prior to taking the job. He knew already how to coach. Hoiberg also never won in AFH in his coaching career, while having more games played there (he was close, though). Yeah, he learned some things, but he had lots of ideas already in place. He wasn't writing a new playbook from scratch on day one, he's been around basketball enough to know how it works.
Prohm spent what, nine years at the mid-major level? I mean, yeah, it'll take some time to go from shoddy mid-level play (and being very successful at it), to coming in and storming arguably the best conference in basketball with a team structure that is not similar to what he was used to, nor was previously coached in a similar manner to his. Yeah, we have some losses. They aren't only coaching failures, they were also outright failures by players to execute at varying points throughout those games. It happens. The blame falls on both, just like the credit for victory does.
Our team is not built the best, either. We have no dominant post players. We have serviceable ones at best (Young should get better with time). It's hard to play in our league with no post play. It's also a reason why our defense, while good, gives up so many points in the lane, rebounds, and putback shots -- they have no inside presence due to a lack of that type of player. Prohm tried to recruit that and had what, two kids either not go to college at all or not show up until mid-season? That's not really his fault.
As for having on-and-off offense, I can break that down for you very easily: when we score a lot, we are either moving the ball and our players around well, or we are just draining everything we throw up. When we don't score and go on droughts, it's because our guys are standing around not creating anything on the floor. It's really not hard to see that. Should Prohm really have to go out there and remind our guys to move around once in a while on offense, specifically this group of mostly Hoiberg players who used to specialize ball movement and creating shots? I don't think so. That seems to me to be more of a player-level failure than a coach-level failure. They should know what their jobs on the court are, and what do to. If anything, they should at least be able to make it up on the fly, and they sometimes have even struggled to do that. We have 6 seniors clocking time in each game, players with that level of experience should have a pretty good idea of what to do regardless of what Prohm says or doesn't say.
Prohm's timeouts, inbounding, and some clock management are questionable. I fully agree with anybody that says those things. Inbounding might have a little blame on the players, too, but we do seem to make it much harder than it needs to be, which probably falls moreso on Prohm. Hopefully that develops over time. As for timeouts, I hate the whole "timeout after own made basket" thing. Drives me insane, it really does. Clock management is usually good, but sometimes they do weird things in late game situations. Some have worked and others have not, so I'm not totally sure what to attribute that to yet.
TL;DR: Just stop complaining. You are the type of person that other message boards make fun of.
