But that’s not a forest vs. trees way of thinking? You get really mad when people want to win this year so why would you care about someone who is not part of our future improving?
Agreed we are not good that's obvious. I don't think Northwestern is either but they have a core of guys like Audige, Bougie, Beran and Berry who have been there for awhile now so you'd think they could pick some teams off. Purdue the class of the league, Indiana lost their PG and I think Race got hurt too. Wisconsin will probably do well because of their formula but they'll lose in the first weekend of the tournament again. Not really sure if what to make of Ohio State and Illinois, seem talented but not consistent. After that there's probably 8-9 teams that are pretty interchangable. All do some things well, have their flaws, will see how it plays out. I don't think we will go winless, think they'll be quite a few losses like today, some blowouts in the road but I think at some point we will pick a couple of teams off. Combo of knocking on the door on our end and getting a team whose slumping. Our coach did play for the only winless team in this league, so I guess it would be fitting if he coached the second one
He’s a writer who may or may not receive any or only a small amount of compensation on a free message board, so really it’s that important to belittle him?
I understand you are struggling with this.
As DJT likes to say: bad publicity is better than no publicity.
Not this team, clearly, but post firing Pitino that should have been the clear and attainable goal. We hired a training wheels candidate rather than an advancement candidate...
That’s insulting to pick-up games at the Y.
The Snake did the same with the woman's program. At some point people either need to be patient or call out Mark Coyle for his hires.
It was the wrong hire and yes it falls on Coyle.
It could be. I thought Whalen was the wrong hire and the first couple years were just awful. This year the women are improving with a great recruiting class.
After watching our team and seeing us shoot free throws and seeing battle and garcia do nothing half the time what would ever make you think we should make the tournament. Our freshman our so inconsistent which is expected. Freshman are freshman unfortunately. Growing pains.
Billy Gardner was the manager of the 1984 Twins, who actually could have won the division if not for a horrific final series in Cleveland. Tom Kelly didn’t become manager until 1986.
I don't understand your appreciation of Samuels' improvement because it is inconsistent with your "logic" on this board. I do understand that you probably aren't intellectually capable of appreciating that fact though.
Yep, and Tom Kelly didn't start the season as the manager. The coach of that team (Ray Miller) was canned at the end of the year. Ray Miller was also in his second season (like Ben Johnson).
So we had to hire an unqualified coach to completely hollow out the program for the sake of recruiting but ’87 Twins?
Everyone competes for a tournament birth, some just can only do it through the conference tournament.
He is a part of the team. As a teammate I support him. He showed you his value to the team, yesterday, and here you are, still whining.
You have the same coach who was here last season. The difference is his team is no longer one of the oldest teams. It's now one of the youngest.
Roster construction is simply going from old men to young pups. The experience level is low, but that doesn't mean the roster is poorly constructed. It means that the construction is starting at the base rather than half way up the wall.
If we had the same roster as last year, you could use the term "regression" and it would be correct. With this year's roster, you have to start at this year's beginning and move forward. From that view, even you admit that we are getting better.
With a motion offense Battle is moving around and being guarded by the teams best defender. On defense, the young kids are learning to play defense so Battle looks worse. Give this team time.
That is not determined by you or me, but feel free (you already do) to keep whining.
Keep comparing apples to oranges. A team that doesn't exist to the team that does exist. Consider how logical you are being.
Can you point to one time I have played a race card for Ben Johnson?
I totally missed the game. Sounds like they are improving step-by-step?
So are you the example? or are the people that disagree with you the example?
The development and improved play of Henley is going to be key to Battle playing the 4. The line up at the end of the game and OT could be the one if Henley takes JoJ’s spot. Garcia has to play the 5 and against bigger/thicker 5’s he will struggle on the defensive end but Payne can play in his place
Ironically, while those managers get a lot of credit, the players often credit Karl Keuhl.
Even worse than the 6-8 is that they were in dogfights against most of the sisters of the poor that they squeaked by. They haven't had one easy game all season.
Battle had a bad game and they still took them to overtime. Henley played under control for the first time, lots of promise. I could see him playing the point with Cooper at the 2 if Henley can sustain some consistency. This is much better basketball than the crap Pitino was putting out there at the end.