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03-08-2018, 05:24 AM | #122 |
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Clearly, Kyle was a huge defensive liability against WSU. He could not guard at all That was why he kept getting yanked out of the game.
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03-08-2018, 06:26 AM | #123 |
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Clearly the guys put in for him were an offensive liability. What's the difference really? Cronin is willing to live with guys that give up only 4 points but score 0 instead of giving up 4 and scoring 6. I don't like that math when everyone else couldnt score either.
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Accountability is huge over the course of a season. Micks rule and many other successful coaches is if you don't guard you don't play.
Also his handling of subs is instrumental in how the bench players have developed. Broome had a huge adjustment in learning to play within himself and blending his talents with the others. He was also our only bench offensive threat. He is playing his best basketball at the most important time. Same for Williams,Scott and Brooks. He built this team for he long haul and to the players credit they all did their jobs. At 27-4 and outright league champs I'll defer to his wisdom. |
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If you go to the Gobearcats YouTube channel they have a nice highlight video of the season, also a good video of Cronin talking about the season and the future
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04-10-2018, 09:11 AM | #129 | |
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I don't know what we have really in the new comers or with a guy like Diarra but I don't expect the frosh to be big contributors. Perhaps they can give us some depth or different looks at times. I am going to sit back and relax a little this year and not put a lot of expectations out there for achievements. This will be a year to watch certain kids grow into roles and see who is going to step up. |
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We know our coach. We know how he operates. He wasn't comfortable enough to turn a lineup of Broome, Evans, Cumberland, Clark, and Washington loose. No way he lets a lineup of more unproven, worse players loose. This season will be like the Caupain SO and JR year teams. My least favorite teams of the Cronin era. But that's who we will be. Think about our conference road games. Think about the lineups we will have out there. Think about what our coach turns to in big games. Rockfight USA. I do agree this year would be the year to do it. But last year was the year to do it too. I think we'll build this team from the grossest of all gross rockfights to a team that will be a worse version of what we were this year in a few years. It'd be nice if Cronin could build this thing the opposite way. Can you imagine if we lost a game like 90-87 or something? And over the course of the next couple years we had to make defensive adjustments to fit the "system" instead of always begging for more offense? Never going to happen. We'll be lucky to crack 60 in the majority of our 9 AAC road games. I might actually choose not to watch some games next year. As crazy as that sounds. But if we play a gross, low-level game, and it's the worst version of the same thing we always get, I'll simply choose to do something else with my time. Not worth watching a 57-55 2OT game at Temple. |
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