Mike White's 4 year PG at LaTech left school as the
All Time Career Ast leader, wtih 800+.
PG 'Cheese' just left UF as
UF's All Time Career Ast Leader with 500+. Florida led the SEC in turnover margin (+4.0) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.3) in 2017-18, and
All-SEC PG Chris Chiozza led the conference with 6.2 assists per game and a 3.4 assist-to-turnover ratio.
Mike recruited
#3 PG Andrew Nembhard ***** and he already has
113 Ast's to just 43 TO's on his tFr season against a monster schedule.
Some here seem to forget thtat BillyD wasn't great ever single year at UF. BillyD signed the nation's
No. 1 overall recruit class in 2007, presumably to replace his back-to-back national-championship teams. After that '07 class arrived, however,
UF went to back-to-back NITs in '08 and '09. ![Cool :cool: :cool:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
It's all Mike White's offense and game day coaching that's the problem
(talk about oozzing binary idiots), it not about the players not being able to put the ball in the basket.... However, through the opening 11-plus minutes vs TCU, Florida was
shooting just over 7% after
missing 14 of its first 15 shots to fall behind 18-3.
The
'home floor' Big12 officials let TCU get away with murder
'figuratively' but called the game tighter on UF. They put KJ on the bench with 3 fouls to let TCU get back out into the lead after UF had tied the score. The officials are also something that White can't control with his coaching....
(reminds me of last year's game in Dallas vs TxTech)
~~ White's third technical in four seasons as the UF coach came at the 7:05 mark of the second half, as he protested a bs foul called on Hayes, instead of a 3 second lane infraction against TCU.
And maybe it had to do with an offense that shot just under 31% for the game, with the Gators' best perimeter scoring threats,
KeVaughn Allen,
Noah Locke,
Andrew Nembhard and
Jalen Hudson, combining to hit just
10 of 41 shots overall (24.3%) and 6 of 23 from deep (26%)
(it's not a cold day shooting, it's coaching incompetence)
A bunch of close losses, so White can't coach. However,
Florida has played a scheduled ranked the 13th-toughest in the country, according to KenPom.com. In terms of opposing offenses, the Gators have played the 8th-most difficult slate nationally.
So despite its 11-8 record, UF is ranked No. 26 in KenPom, as well as 37th in the first-year NET metric that replaced the Ratings Percentage Index as the data that will determine the 2019 NCAA Tournament field.
Florida is 0-6 against NET Top 40 opponents, with losses to Michigan State (No. 3), Tennessee (6th), Oklahoma (26th), TCU (25th), Mississippi State (28th) and Florida State (34th). With the exception of the season-opening drubbing on the road against the Seminoles, the other five were one-possession games inside two minutes. ![Er... what? o_O o_O](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
(Mike always goes brain-dead inside the final 2 minutes)
![Roll Eyes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I (iG) thinks that Mike White is a great B-Ball coach, with a 4.0 'decent human being' character as a large plus. If you need a 2nd
'more professional' opinion there's this:
Chris Harry -- I do, actually, and the track record backs me up: 80-45 in 4 seasons (.640), 2017 SEC Coach of the Year, 4-2 record in 2 NCAA tournaments, with a Top-5 signing class on the way. This has been a challenging season for a number of reasons, given the imbalanced roster, injuries, youth, etc. White has publicly taken ownership of the struggles any number of times. He's handcuffed relative to options, right now.
Haters gonna hate....