Cutting edge offense

[OldHoyafan]

I remember in the early 70's a young coach for Georgetown devised a different way to win ball games. He recruited athletes who could be tought to play smothering defense for 40 minutes, rebound missed shots and run the floor. He relied very little on suffisticated offensive sets. This way to play BB in the new BE earned his team BE championships and eventually the national championship. Then the league coaches decided to copy Georgetown's coaches philosophy of winning with a smothering defense,but went further and improved on it by adding 3 pt shooters. Petino at Providence, Williams at BC ,and Calhoun at UConn made smothering D and fastbreak ball their game and eventually surpased JT2 and the Hoyas.
Now, JT3 has introduced to the new BE an old offense, but a new concept of using great athletes in the offense. The results have been astounding and possibly could lead to more BE championships and more.
The question is will the rest of the league again copy a coach Thompson and mimick his cutting edge offense?

[hoyainspirit]

Maybe, if we enjoy the consistency and run of championships that those Hoyas did. But these Hoyas haven't won anything...yet!

[VictorSkyPage]

If this happens, it will have to be a new coaching influx for the B.E. ...

you know Calhoun, Dixon, Crean, etc. will not be implementing the Princeton offense... they have their own styles...

teams would have to hire new coaches who are real deal Princeton O disciples (JTIII, Joe Scott, etc.) and still be able to recruit the athletes they need..

It would take a ton of continued success from the Hoyas for imitators to arise in the Big East, and it would be difficult for many of these teams (and current coaching staffs) to have the patience to wait for the system to take flight..

It would be interesting to see the Johnnies try something like this with NY ballplayers; nothing has worked for them of late and I don't particularly like Norm Roberts (I don't really care either way, I'd be much happier to see them continue at their current pace).