Hodge and his defensive focus

[Jonnyeagle]

Don’t get me wrong I love Hodge’s defense and it has elevated us to a new level of success. I would not trade that.

Can’t help but wonder if this defensive focus doesn’t lead to some of the defections?  Most bball players want to play offense more than defense.  Just feeling like this is an elephant in the room nobody wants to deal with.

 

[Glory to the Green]

10 hours ago, Jonnyeagle said:

Don’t get me wrong I love Hodge’s defense and it has elevated us to a new level of success. I would not trade that.

Can’t help but wonder if this defensive focus doesn’t lead to some of the defections?  Most bball players want to play offense more than defense.  Just feeling like this is an elephant in the room nobody wants to deal with.

 

We definitely cater to a certain type of player:  prioritizes team over self, willingness to play defense, prioritizes winning over personal stats. 

[Shark84]

5 minutes ago, Glory to the Green said:

We definitely cater to a certain type of player:  prioritizes team over self, willingness to play defense, prioritizes winning over personal stats. 

Those have been the type of players and system that has been successful for us over the past few years but I think it is fair to question if that will work going forward. Hard to find team first guys in a ME first system. 

[GrandGreen]

I have no doubt, that NT's style of play; hurts recruiting.  Many if not most of players, care more about their personal stats. than wins.  

With NIL and players going to the highest bidder, I believe it is even more important for NT to keep their defense first game.  NT is not going to get the super stars or even be able to keep the players that they develop.  Play solid defense first basketball and keep the slow game to grind out wins.

Hodge does direct a quicker more offensive game than McCasland did in his era at NT. 

 

[NorthTexasWeLove]

18 hours ago, Jonnyeagle said:

Don’t get me wrong I love Hodge’s defense and it has elevated us to a new level of success. I would not trade that.

Can’t help but wonder if this defensive focus doesn’t lead to some of the defections?  Most bball players want to play offense more than defense.  Just feeling like this is an elephant in the room nobody wants to deal with.

 

It is not an elephant in the room. Team oriented players are more likely to WANT to play defense and WANT to stay where they are at. To me, this is a non-issue. 

Full disclosure: I have no idea what I am talking about. But I am starting to think that maybe CJ and Edwards were cancers to this program. CJ, the use-to-be P5 transfer and Edwards the up and comer that wanted a bag... Maybe they just talked shit all the time about the program to other players and how much money there is out there to go snag and it got our grounded players thinking about it... Last year our nucleus stayed and seemingly wanted to stay. Rubin and Aaron had offers out there to take at the end of last seasons NIT run. Enter CJ and Edwards into the fray and now they're all gone. Just uninformed speculation. But it's definitely worth noting that a coach has to always keep in mind what kind of player they are bringing around your current guys that have proven to be loyal...

[BleedingGreen]

We aren’t in the locker rooms or coaches’ offices so we don’t know.  It’s all speculation. 
The body language on the court wasn’t bad and all injured players worked hard to come back .

I am clueless on transparency comments.