In Reply to: Define posted by klkl on February 22, 2026 at 14:59:56
as a D-first coach.
It's how he viewed and still views the game.
His mantra is to play hard and take good care of the ball..............as in, 'I don't care how much you score as long as you play hard and don't turn the ball over'.
Those elements go into what he's known best for on O................a plain jane perimeter weave to free up an iso advantage against a man-D. He runs very few plays for individual players, other than for the ball-centric Dent. A variation he's increasingly gone to with Dent to some extent of late, is a more dedicated pick-and-roll and/or pick-and-pop do-si-do with Bilo.
On the other hand, he runs no plays for our Garbage Man, who was the game-high scorer in the Ill game; Dailey is often camped out in the coffin 3 corner just taking up space before rolling to the hoop for an O board as our leading rebounder. Book is an after-thought unless the ball somehow finds him alone for a trey.
What has changed is Perry (and to a lesser extent Skyy off the DNP list) probing more in the paint with the ball. Probing more off the perimeter. They did it to a greater degree in the Ill game, as I mentioned in UCLA incredibly winning the points-in-the-paint game-within-a-game by a material 8 points against Ill of all teams, in an OT game.
That's the "turning 'em loose" halfcourt O sets I'm talking about. In a word, diversifying our O as opposed to predictably dribble weaving on the perimeter and predominantly running down the possession clock until an iso produces a semi-open shot.
As to us not rebounding well, it's undeniable. We continue to suffer a rebounding and scoring drought at our 5 rotation and that's not likely to change....