Jarvis’s teams played amazing defense. Maybe his better teams hid his offensive shortcomings. If Jarvis was bad at anything this current staff is beyond worse.
Personally, I don’t care about sets. If you are getting good shots, I am fine with the offense.
I also really liked Jarvis as a game coach.
My buddy saw a practice of his, and was amazed how elementary it was.
I watched every alumni hall practice during my time at St. John's. He obsessed over fundamentals like bigs catching the ball, boxing out, pounding the offensive glass, and defense.
Our offense was extremely basic. Mullin and staff are far better with X's and O's, but why can't we have both? It's frustrating to see four guys running back with the shot the last 8 years instead of crashing the glass and creating possessions. You can't just stress defense and rebounding, you have to obsess over every detail.
I agree with you. Our offense scheme wasn't so amazing vs Duke. Our best player took plenty of shots and our big guys crashed. ahemed and ownens did well that day. The Lavin offense wasn't great, But Harrison got his shots and their were guys trying to get rebounds. When we were bad this year, we sometimes had 5 guys behind the 3 point line.
I would rather ponds shoot more, figure he makes at least 3/10. Maybe we get 2/7 . When our forwards miss from deep, we never get the rebound and it often turns into an easy basket for the other team.
Less 3's, better shot selection (especially for the forwards) would improve things by a lot. The defense was better or the most part. If we are going to play some zone. Coaches need to do a much better job. That 2/3 was awful.