Having literally cut my teeth on Shelby basketball (and I don't think there has ever been a coach at A&M since who wasn't a "defense first/3 point shot is a bad thing/press when it's convenient/67 point per game/muscle beats finesse" team) I'm trying to adjust psychologically to what we are about to see. Will the gods even let it within the city limits of College Station?? Will the ghosts of G. Rollie turn the court into fly paper to slow it all down? Parts of me hope so.........not really, but I'm seriously not sure I'll be able to believe what I'm seeing.

Shelby/Billy G./Billy K./Buzz, what say you?

I think 94 feet of defense sounds awfully close
to defense first.

Now the three ball? I'm in for that.

Excited to see a scoring team placed on the court that gives everything they have offense/defense/transition for 40 minutes. Excited to have a coach emphasize the purpose of the game…put the ball through the net more times than the opponent and not have to rely on excellent rebounding because you can't score. Excited to have a coach who is NCAA tournament focused that says the whole point of the regular season is to get in the big dance and make a deep run. Excited for a change in mentality.

Shelby only coached 4 yrs in the 3 pt era. I think it was a tough adjustment for the older coaches. Now it's a major part of the game and for good reason from a probability standpoint. If I recall correctly BCG incorporated the 3 ball pretty heavily into his defense first game and so did Billy Kennedy.

Jmo, Shelby was a damned good basketball coach. I think it was Dean Smith who said Shelby would be a slam dunk hall of fame coach if he had half the resources Dean had at North Carolina

What I hear Bucky say is they want to be great in all aspects of the game. I know I have to wait until November to see what it looks like but I am chomping at the bit to see this style played by an Aggie hoops team. It's going to be fun to see. It very well may be a bit ragged for awhile but I expect it starts to tighten up considerably by 2nd half of the season. Maybe wishful thinking but I think Bucky knows what he's doing and it will translate to this level of ball.

I am ready for a culture change. Ready to be an elite basketball school. Just need proof of concept next season and this could be the best decade ever coming up.

Just remember Acie Law's "the shot" was to win 46-43…

I'm excited to see that we'll have multiple guys that can get a hot hand and score, unlike last year when if Wade was off, we were in trouble.

SunrayAg said:

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Just remember Acie Law's "the shot" was to win 46-43…

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For perspective:

6.5% of our points that day were scored in that moment.