{"id":643,"date":"2006-11-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/who-is-joe-obrien\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T10:00:00","slug":"who-is-joe-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/who-is-joe-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Joe O&#8217;Brien?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone knows something about this guy, I&#8217;d love to hear it. All I know is this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He took over as Idaho State&#8217;s coach this season after winning 300+ games at the juco level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; One of his assistants is former prep phenom Rodrick Rhodes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He inherited a team that finished last in the Big Sky and had a wretched defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; So far, the Bengals have gone on the road and taken Marquette and BYU to overtime, with an easy neutral-site win over Maine sandwiched in between.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He relies on some sort of funky zone which lulled both Marquette and BYU into shooting more 3&#8217;s than normal.<\/p>\n<p>Their next opponent is Washington State, a team that has shot the 3 very well so far. Which means we should find out on Tuesday whether ISU has benefited from a good bit of fortune or whether their D really is one of the most improved in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone knows something about this guy, I&#8217;d love to hear it. All I know is this: &#8211; He took over as Idaho State&#8217;s coach this season after winning 300+ games at the juco level. &#8211; One of his assistants is former prep phenom Rodrick Rhodes. &#8211; He inherited a team that finished last in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}