01-02-2021, 10:42 PM | #101 |
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Just finished watching the game after an afternoon at the park with my son and a night out with my wife and friends in Forest Hiils (great NYC neighborhood btw if any of you ever visit).
Couple takeaways... MAW is bad. I'm ready to scrap all of his minutes for Mason Madsen, sight unseen. He can make free throws and nothing else. Will never be a legit high major offensive player. Let him go to Buffalo or Binghamton at the end of this year. If he's our starting 2 guard for the next 2 years then **** me in the ***. Keith. Not much more to say other than he is a loser. Not that he isn't a physically impressive player, but when the game is on the line, he cannot make winning plays. Hence, he is a loser. 65% at the line is not good enough. As for Brannen, I'm officially done with him. If he can't win with this group, I don't think he can win with anyone. I'm ready to part ways with him after this season. The program culture is nothing short of embarrassing. Let's cut our losses now and build from the ground up with Van Exel. |
01-02-2021, 10:55 PM | #102 |
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It's ok to trust in a HC instead of trying to blow it up because of a horrible month. This fan base is beyond toxic in so many ways. As for Nick Van Exel, why is literally no other team offering him a head coaching position, literally not a single team in division 1...people would bitch and moan if we hired him if he wasn’t a former player. Take your past UC glory bias away and he is nothing more than a G league coach.... I don’t think Brannen is the guy personally but Jesus to blow it up right now or even after the season would just be silly
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01-02-2021, 11:06 PM | #103 | |
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I'm officially with Jhub and am done trying to sugar coat our situation. We're consistently losing to teams with less talent and it's because of poor coaching. Cumberland and Tre Scott bailed Brannen out last season when we all knew the product on the court was inferior. We nearly lost to a sh*tty Temple team on Senior Day. The best thing that happened to Brannen was the pandemic. We were primed for getting upset in the AAC tourney and losing our "supposed" at-large bid. Davenport is the only player who is playing to or above his potential at this point. Every other player is getting the **** end of the stick. Dejulius deserves better. Harvey deserves better. Eason DEFINITELY deserves better. Time to keep it real and stop accepting the "Cincinnati way" of mediocrity. |
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01-03-2021, 07:47 AM | #104 |
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How long can we keep losing before it starts to effect - the non-existent - recruiting for next year? Brannen has been recruiting on the back of Cronin averaging 30 wins a year and hopes and dreams of something even better. Now that the dreams are looking more like nightmares, how many recruits are going to want to come here next year?
What does Brannen have in his book to entice a recruit? Keith and Jarron regressed under him, MAW and others regressed in three point shooting, he has done horrible recruiting transfers. Reality is likely to be a harsh judge when he starts calling guys up in the spring. You don't blow things up mid-season and Brannen doesn't fail based on one bad month. But he needs to turn things around this season. If we finish with under 10 wins and looking like we are going to need a complete rebuild, there is no reason to keep around the coach who got us into the mess. At that point there is more opportunity to take a risk on someone like NVE (no need to worry about continuity, since Brannen already ruined that) or find someone who seems be set to rebuild. |
01-03-2021, 08:03 AM | #105 | |
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Honest question, how did jarron regress? It been stated the guy was hurt, are we blaming brannen for that? These plenty to blame brannen for, why make something up? Last edited by cincyguy13; 01-03-2021 at 08:09 AM. |
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01-03-2021, 08:13 AM | #106 | |
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01-03-2021, 08:21 AM | #107 | |
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01-03-2021, 08:46 AM | #108 | |
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I'm not expecting guys to become stars overnight, but I expect to see guys make year-to-year improvement and improve throughout the season. It can be small things, like improving shooting, defense or just reducing fouls. I'd bet everything I own that Cronin would have turned Keith into a star, the other coaches in the league were clearly expecting Keith to turn into a star (hence the first team picks). One player failing to develop is a problem with the player, but the whole team failing to develop is a problem with the coach. Who on this team looks significantly better than they did last year? |
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01-03-2021, 08:54 AM | #109 | |
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Keith was never going to be a star. He doesn't have it. Yet another thing impossible to teach. |
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01-03-2021, 08:56 AM | #110 | |
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Also, brannen is giving Keith the ball all the time. What more do you want brannen to do? If Keith’s a star, go be one. It’s not like he isn’t getting the opportunity. Brannen did make Tre a star. That doesn’t count tho. Last edited by cincyguy13; 01-03-2021 at 08:58 AM. |
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