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Pffft call me when he gets this team to the final four. Once that happens I'll give him a nod of approval.
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scarletmike
Researching the Magic!
Really like what I've seen from Holtmann this season, both in coaching and in his general demeanor on and off the court. That calm and confidence shows in how the team has been playing.
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DZ83CK
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CH has done a terrific job of switching his lineup to get the elements he needs to win the game, changing minutes and roles. Everyone coming off the bench now has had games where their contribution was vital in one way or another. Even though none of those bench guys are going to win any awards for their play, CH has managed to capitalize on what they are able to do at key moments to help put this team in the win column.
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Hstead
Legend
The offense is what I love. Don’t get me wrong, I was DYING to see effort and Defense, but watching us cut now and move, pass the ball, reverse it for a little curl down the lane for a wide open bunny gives me the chills after watching the basketball equivalent of a Beck-like bs weave for 22 seconds followed by a high screen with our big man 20 feet from the rim and a desperation heave as the shot clock expired. Or the dribble the full length no pass play bs.
More than one color analyst has mentioned it this year, how the ball moves now vs the last few years and last night the guy even mentioned selfish players and named loving.
More than one color analyst has mentioned it this year, how the ball moves now vs the last few years and last night the guy even mentioned selfish players and named loving.
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Exactly. I said this before, but even when this team is ice cold, they're a lot more fun to watch offensively than past teams. I can live with a team being cold but getting great open looks or a team simply getting disrupted by good defense.
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I mentioned more than once last year how so many teams seem to have offensive systems that maximize their talent, while we seemed to have five guys aimlessly running around the floor with no real purpose. Night and day.
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Chris Holtmann's psychic abilities, video games and the secret behind Ohio State basketball's perfect Big Ten start
Updated 7:32 AM; Posted 7:10 AM
Ohio State basketball: Chris Holtmann on the strong connection between coaches and players
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By Bill Landis, cleveland.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It started with a secret meeting, a strategic real estate purchase and a trip to Best Buy.
That's how Chris Holtmann got Ohio State basketball off to a 9-0 Big Ten start in his first season with the Buckeyes.
Truthfully, it's much more than that. Some of it obvious, some of it below the surface level. There's a secret to this start that goes beyond these two truths:
* 1: That Keita Bates-Diop, finally healthy, is playing at a level that might get him selected in the first round of this year's NBA Draft.
* 2: That the Big Ten is still tough, but not nearly as strong as anticipated before the season, and the Buckeyes are taking advantage of that.
So a team picked to finish 11th in the league, and tagged as a rebuilding project before anyone saw it play a game is instead 18-4 and unbeaten in the Big Ten at the halfway point of conference play. How? Here's the secret:
"There's a connection between this group and our coaching staff that's happened a whole lot quicker than I've expected," Holtmann said. "A whole lot quicker. A lot of that speaks to their ability to be open to what we're trying to do."
He said that after Ohio State beat Nebraska on Monday night, explaining something senior forward Jae'Sean Tate said. If you're looking for one universal reason for why the Buckeyes have been such a surprising upstart this year, maybe it's this:
"I think Coach Holtmann, I don't know if he can see the future, I don't know what it is," Tate said. "Every game we go into, he knows exactly how the game is gonna go ... He has done a great job of preparing us with the mindset we need going into games."
This is a coaching staff -- Holtmann, plus assistants Ryan Pedon, Terry Johnson and Mike Schrage -- totally in sync with a group of players. It's far from a perfect relationship. Every team will hit its bumps during a season, and the Buckeyes certainly had some at the beginning of this one. More could be coming. It's a long season. But 13 wins in the last 14 games suggests an alignment that's been absent here over the last few years.
You'd need extra fingers and toes to count up the times Thad Matta came into a postgame news conference completely dumbfounded by the effort his team had just put out. How'd we lose that game? That's an unavoidable feeling when you're coaching teenagers and young men. Every team has letdowns. But it started happening here at a problematic rate, one that suggested a disconnect between players and coaches.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/01/chris_holtmanns_psychic_abilit.html
Updated 7:32 AM; Posted 7:10 AM
Ohio State basketball: Chris Holtmann on the strong connection between coaches and players
3shares
By Bill Landis, cleveland.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It started with a secret meeting, a strategic real estate purchase and a trip to Best Buy.
That's how Chris Holtmann got Ohio State basketball off to a 9-0 Big Ten start in his first season with the Buckeyes.
Truthfully, it's much more than that. Some of it obvious, some of it below the surface level. There's a secret to this start that goes beyond these two truths:
* 1: That Keita Bates-Diop, finally healthy, is playing at a level that might get him selected in the first round of this year's NBA Draft.
* 2: That the Big Ten is still tough, but not nearly as strong as anticipated before the season, and the Buckeyes are taking advantage of that.
So a team picked to finish 11th in the league, and tagged as a rebuilding project before anyone saw it play a game is instead 18-4 and unbeaten in the Big Ten at the halfway point of conference play. How? Here's the secret:
"There's a connection between this group and our coaching staff that's happened a whole lot quicker than I've expected," Holtmann said. "A whole lot quicker. A lot of that speaks to their ability to be open to what we're trying to do."
He said that after Ohio State beat Nebraska on Monday night, explaining something senior forward Jae'Sean Tate said. If you're looking for one universal reason for why the Buckeyes have been such a surprising upstart this year, maybe it's this:
"I think Coach Holtmann, I don't know if he can see the future, I don't know what it is," Tate said. "Every game we go into, he knows exactly how the game is gonna go ... He has done a great job of preparing us with the mindset we need going into games."
This is a coaching staff -- Holtmann, plus assistants Ryan Pedon, Terry Johnson and Mike Schrage -- totally in sync with a group of players. It's far from a perfect relationship. Every team will hit its bumps during a season, and the Buckeyes certainly had some at the beginning of this one. More could be coming. It's a long season. But 13 wins in the last 14 games suggests an alignment that's been absent here over the last few years.
You'd need extra fingers and toes to count up the times Thad Matta came into a postgame news conference completely dumbfounded by the effort his team had just put out. How'd we lose that game? That's an unavoidable feeling when you're coaching teenagers and young men. Every team has letdowns. But it started happening here at a problematic rate, one that suggested a disconnect between players and coaches.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/01/chris_holtmanns_psychic_abilit.html
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DZ83CK
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Have been noticing CH has been really active with radio interviews and podcasts recently. Good for him to get his name & message out there as much as possible since he is still being overlooked by some in the National media, and I'm sure he's not one of the best known coaches out there in recruiting anyway.
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Yeah, pretty pleased with how this hire is working out. I was high on him from the start, but WOW.
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