StLHokie
Registered User
Brouwer and Brodziak.
That's one third of their regular defense and one third of their forwards, including two players in their top six.
And wasn't your point that because the lineup didn't change much, that means Hitchcock is the reason for their improvement?
Oh yeah forgot those two. Not sure why those slipped my mind.
My point was that player personnel changes have a much more significant impact on team performance than does coaching. If a coach is at a certain threshold of ability, it doesn't matter who you have coaching the team. In the end, it comes down to the player makeup. This year the team had a dramatically different player makeup, and that is what resulted in the performance change.