02-22-2018, 10:12 AM | #21 | |
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It's silly to cite rebounding margin against UCF without Tacko, ECU, USF, short-handed SMU, etc, as if it's the same as @Xavier, vs Florida, @Houston, and vs Wichita State. We are basically banking on manhandling the best teams in the country in order to win. Also, our Ast/TO is going to be way out of whack in a 4 game sample when you include the 21 TO Florida game. Obviously that did happen. But it throws the numbers. Last edited by jacobkdoyle; 02-22-2018 at 10:16 AM. |
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Cane needs to start and if Evans is going to be the focal point of the offense he can't also be doing a full court press the entire game. It's no wonder his shooting is slacking, there's no way his legs aren't starting to go a little bit. He probably workers harder each game then almost anyone in the country.
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02-22-2018, 10:35 AM | #24 | |
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Broome Cumberland Evans Clark Washington Play them as many minutes as they can. Jenifer, Williams, Scott, Brooks, Nsoseme are the bench guys to go with. But they each play about 10 minutes or less from here on out, so long as there is no foul trouble. Moore is out of the rotation. No disrespect to him, but he hasn't been giving us anything and Williams is the caliber athlete we need against the highest level teams. We have come up short offensively a zillion times in the past. We will come up short offensively in the future. This year we don't have to come up short offensively. It's exactly what we've been building for. But coach is getting cold feet. He may have said all this stuff about needing offense and recruited the players. But now that the time is here to jam our foot on the gas, play our best basketball players, and really go for it, we are finding out that Cronin can't handle it. He can't let go. He has his comfort zone and he will not leave it, even if he knows the end result. This is the one chance to go out a different way. If he is here for 30 years, this may be the best chance to ever legitimately put 5 scorers on the floor at once. But he won't let us have it. So if we go out with Washington and/or Broome on the bench in favor of guys who give us ZERO offense, I simply will not be able to forgive that and I will always judge Cronin harshly for it. We are at a crossroads for this season right now...and I'd bet the farm that our coach is going to go down the old familiar path. If he continues to play players who can do nothing but turn the game into a rockfight, I'll never listen to a word he ever says about offense ever again. The time is right now. It's staring right at us. If we go the rockfight route now, then we might as well just stop the charade and admit that's who we are and who we will be for all time. If you can't avoid the rockfight with this team, bc you can't help but play Jenifer, Brooks, and Nsoseme as much as Broome and Washington, then you deep down have no intention of ever doing it any other way. The game tonight means nothing. But I'm afraid we'll act like it means everything. And after we win, outrebound them, start Jenifer, etc, coach will be spreading the message that we're back on track. But in reality, we are just playing another sh*tty team. And there will be no reason to think we will be prepared to play the best teams next time. |
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02-22-2018, 10:44 AM | #25 | |
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run the offense all game. stop going to this iso jake stuff. it doesn't work. the offense is solid when we use the 5 best guys. we need to make it difficult on the defense, not easier. im sure mick would LOVE it if a team elected to play 1 on 5 offense against him. very surprising he wants to do it with his offense. |
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02-22-2018, 11:10 AM | #26 |
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What does everyone think about these rotations for the 1st half of future games?
Starting Line-up Broome Cumberland Evans Clark Washington 1st Media Timeout Line-up Broome Cumberland Evans Clark Brooks 2nd Media Timeout Line-up Jenifer Williams Evans Scott Washington 3rd Media Timeout Line-up Jenifer Broome Cumberland Clark Nsoseme Final Media Timeout Line-up Broome Cumberland Evans Clark Washington |
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02-22-2018, 11:39 AM | #30 | |
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I like Williams's length and athleticism for spot minutes. He grabbed an offensive rebound the other day, got to the line, has hit 83% FT in AAC play. His aggressiveness can actually be used as an advantage in these types of minutes. He might go 2-3 and get to the line. I really feel like he has a much better chance than Moore to put up a quick 5. Moore is shooting 29% in conference play. And even worse from 3. That's supposed to be his thing. I still have moderately high hopes for him, and I think he'll be a contributor. I just don't think he's ready for that at this point against the best of the best teams in the country. Williams I believe is over a year older than Moore. He's a much more gifted athlete. That's who I'd be going with. |
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