uniftw wrote:DUBulldog wrote:getreal4 wrote:Sure wish Coach Jake was in Des Moines. Hard to support MP
I just posted on the Drake board that I'm convinced that if you swapped the two coaches, and kept the rosters the same that Drake wins this game by 15 points.
Not a lot of students there, due to break, but with about 1:30 left in the game there was a "Fire Phelps" chant coming from the student section.
Jake is clearly the better coach, but do you really feel you have better talent than UNI, by a wide margin, that a coach alone makes a 30 point swing?
No, I think the talent is fairly even, although you'd never know it by watching Drake tonight. I think whichever of those teams Jacobson coaches beats the other coached by Phelps by 15.
Jacobson is an absolute master of building an offense around the strengths of his individual players. If he signed a guy who could only make 12 foot jump shots from a 30 degree angle on the left side of the bucket, he'd find a way to get that guy that shot several times a game. Other than "give the ball to Rayvonte and get the hell out of the way", Phelps doesn't appear to have an offensive scheme. He doesn't find a way to get his shooters open shots. Jacobson's offense got James at least 10 wide open shots. How many open shots did Ben Simons have today?