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royalfan

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  1. I thought this was going to happen tonight. Obviously not to this extent. This was easy to see coming. Seems like too many people have checked out. Our will to coach and our will to win is completely gone, just like that year. And again, I was only bringing up players names to reference the season. Wasn't my goal to claim either didn't play hard or checked out mentally. This is a sad situation. Nothing pisses me off more than clubs I love not playing hard, at least in the world of sports.
  2. Teams didn't have much of us on film then. They do now and we are super non complex to defend. Close off the lane and then close off the lane. Contest the deep shots as best you can, but close off the lane. Teams know that now. We need more ways to score in a consistent fashion. White sure would have helped on this front.
  3. Our wrestling team now infected by this never ending athletic department funk. Would have been hard to wrestle worse than we did this morning.
  4. I was just giving reference to the season. Didn't intend to call anyone out individually like it probably came off. As a whole it was embarrassing and we did not care very much at all.
  5. I really hope this season doesn't end without anyone caring like Pitchford Petteway etc. last year year. That was so sad to watch. Coaches didn't even seem to care very much. The team certainly didn't. If Miles knows the writing is on the wall, that is probably what will happen.
  6. I think you were joking Norm, but it is actually exactly what they should be trying to do. Teams that don't get the best players, should strive to be great from the 3 point line and should strive to shoot a whole bunch of them and have all sorts of ways to get open ones.
  7. No eye for talent. Get athletes and teach them to play baseball better. Instead we get guys that are grinders with no upside. Exactly what you should not do. Find athletes that have grinding traits, not grinders that don't have athletic traits. Hard to believe how shitty our baseball program is.
  8. They are likely to be a tough out in that thing. For some reason I still hold out hope. That is what I do. And I want no part of them in a Wednesday game. Very confident our season ends if we see them.
  9. It was written wrong. What it meant to say was that too may teams make it every year for us to rarely make it and each year many teams that I feel we should have a better program than are in while we sit and watch. And most of these teams seem to have guys that can shoot the ball and watching us lay bricks every year wears on me.
  10. Tired is possibly a small factor, but it shouldn't be. The bigger problem is that we are so easy to defend and more and more tape on us being defended well is leading to others doing the same types of concepts. Everything is congested. When you can sag off guys without getting punished and have no reliable post game to go to for points, and none of them can pass worth a damn out of a double it is very tough against good defensive coaching. Defensively, we have to help so much as we get beat off the dribble way too easily, way too often. This results in our 3 point allowed debacle. It is disappointing that our staff hasn't figured out how to use sabermetrics better. Getting completely destroyed by the 3 point line on both ends. Needs to be the other way around to elevate a program quickly. I know Miles understands most of these concepts. For some reason he isn't very good at doing anything about it. It is such a frustrating situation hoping he can get it rolling, yet not knowing if he is capable of it. That dynamic in play as well as the dynamics of not wanting to start over right now, or having Eichhorst make an important hire. Too many teams make the damn tourney each year. Teams that we shouldn't be better than. Yet here were are again.
  11. Boy, that is so true. Still think we would have won the Rutgers game immediately following had we got that one. Also the NW home game is an overlooked huge loss. Derailed insane momentum potential. We might have really started thinking we were good.
  12. No it wasn't exactly the same. Some of the actions may look similar but the shots taken and by whom as well as the free throw line as a weapon are not the same. Does our defense look similar also?
  13. Just because he is gone and is not coming back doesn't make it possible that he was a big part of the X and O process that led us to the dance. You bring up the other season and a half he was here. The first season amazes me that we won as many games as we did. It was incredible coaching by the staff IMO. Never forget closing out the Devaney with a great win over a decent Minny team. And won a tourney game if memory serves. What else would you hope for out of that season exactly? And while we did struggle the first half of that next season, we kept getting better. Something that has not occurred since he left. We have seemed to play worse in the years since he left as the season went along. Arguably better in both he was here. Just because you don't like the thought of him having a lot to do with our success doesn't make it the case that he didn't. It could all just be an incredible coincidence. I am not in that camp, nor have I ever been since watching our X's and O's get worse since he has been gone.
  14. We could use a bit more swagger. He also shoots like we do, so that won't be an issue.
  15. At least there is a chance of the ball going in when they shoot from what we have been told. So there is that.
  16. Tough league. When you have flaws, these coaches will figure them out. As good of X and O coaches as any league. Probably the best. We are very flawed. You can see the paint getting closed off so much more as the season has gone on. When you cannot shoot that is a problem. The guys that can shoot are not good on defense. It is a bitch. We are flawed. Unfortunately, that means we are also not very good. No way to sugarcoat it. Our margin for error is extremely slim.
  17. Nobody gets better during the season. Not enough guys get better from one season to the next. Player development has been a major concern of mine, and unfortunately it continues to be, after thinking there were minor signs of progress on that front.
  18. This is pathetic. Most of the year our will hasn't been broken. It is the last few games. Nobody cares enough to keep their guy in front of them and the whole defense gets compromised.
  19. We get beat so damn easily off the dribble it is hard to watch. That is why we give up so many easy 3's against most teams. These guys just finish the play themselves. Guys need to man up and keep guy in front so we don't have to help every damn possession.
  20. Gophers were not more talented than most teams, unless you are including all conferences in college basketball. They were extremely devoid of talent last year. And what talent it did have was very raw.
  21. For some reason I don't weigh Football multiple times higher than I probably should. I don't hate the Riley hire at all. I like him. I hope it works. That being said, we should be able to get a solid coach. That is what we got. Nobody was calling this a huge home run at the time I don't think. The women's basketball situation has me doubting him in general. What a disaster.
  22. Is there a reason you cannot mention some of the things he is doing to derail the train? The next thing that Eichorst does that impresses me will be the first.
  23. Between this and the fraternity debacle recently, combined with proximity to dangerous areas of town, Creighton doesn't seem like the safest of schools any longer.
  24. I love watching Virginia play. The defensive rotations are a thing of beauty to me.
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