Athletic’s anon coaches poll

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They asked who would you want designing an offensive gameplan, a defensive gameplan, and who makes the best in-game adjustments .

One coach won two of three, while there was a tie on the third. Takes ya guesses.

Anonymous women's college basketball coaches dish on who's the best at in-game adjustments, game planning

We asked more than 35 coaches: Who would you pick to design an offense for you? A defense? Here are their answers.

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[VA Huskie]

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[Centerstream]

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Makes the coaches even more anonymous

 

[12au]

0 votes for Mulkey

 

[ISUnorth]

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Just list the top coaches and break it down on offense, defense and in game changes. Pretty much just a list of the known top (and mostly old) coaches with a nod to one young coach, Jennie Baranczyk as a top offensive coach.

 

[JstVisiting]

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Best offensive gameplan

Geno Auriemma	UConn	4
Jennie Baranczyk	Oklahoma	4
Lisa Bluder	Iowa	3
Karl Smesko	FGCU	3
Tara VanDerveer	Stanford	3

“He has figured out how to do it from a spacing and screening standpoint that’s not complicated, but effective. He makes basketball into simple reads.”

“They [UConn] execute and they score and they’re efficient. They do that at an elite level regardless of their personnel.”

Best defensive gameplan

Dawn Staley	South Carolina	14
Vic Schaefer	Texas	5
Scott Rueck	Oregon State	3
Jeff Walz	Louisville	3

“It’s a mentality. She maximizes those student-athletes. You don’t always have offense to lean on, but you always have defense to lean on, and she does a good job of game-planning and making adjustments with her defense. She uses everything she has. And she has an incredible basketball mind.”

“Year in and year out, they have a high performing defensive team. I just think they know how to prepare for a team.”

Best in game adjustments

Coach	Team	Votes
Dawn Staley	South Carolina	7
Tara VanDerveer	Stanford	4
Jeff Walz	Louisville	4
Scott Rueck	Oregon State	3

“The South Carolina machine is a whole different level than everybody right now. But do you know how hard it is to get a bunch of All-Americans to be team players and play elite defense and compete? It’s incredible what she’s doing. Very few people have the gift to attract that level of talent, and then also get them to play hard and buy-in and be a machine.”

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

The offensive is interesting - past Geno I would have been scratching my head. While I might have struggled to put together the defensive and adjustment lists, in the end, they are not surprising.

 

[TheFarmFan]

This tracked pretty closely to what I would have picked for defensive and adjustments - but for offensive game plan, other than Geno and Tara, the rest was a surprise to me.