Dayton

[j. spilotro]

Name your odds and I’ll make a $20 bet with each of you lol, I’m at every game.

I’ll take the bet hoping I lose.

If I do win, I’ll take you at your word … donate the proceeds to a youth organization - Girl Scouts, pop warner, little league … wherever kids are organized and fundraising.

If I lose the bet, I’ll get the money to you. You have my word.

 

[unlove]

Forgot about the game. Apathy has taken complete hold of the program. Checked the box score and it appears Whaley is still out. Only hope is the team goes into beast mode when Whaley comes back and having Bear on the court as well. Although Cherry’s production has seemed o take a significant drop off. Not sure what that’s about, I haven’t been watching.

 

[j. spilotro]

Offensively we are boring and unimaginative and predictable as hell, it’s Dedan plus four other guys. Defensively they were much better and it gave the Rebels a real chance. Unfortunately, Dayton hit late shots, shots that they couldn’t string together for most of the game and it was enough for them.

It’s far from an embarrassing loss, they fought hard and looked better overall.

But it appeared Dayton as a ranked team and near holidays … without seeing them play this season, I’m assuming they don’t always look this lethargic/off … they certainly did not look the part of a top 25 team. Not a lot of fire on their end either.

It happens sometimes at this point of the year.

Hopefully this is the beginning of “something” for the Rebels, something that is enough to give people a reason to follow them.

 

[Rebel1986]

They’ll win the next four games, it’s a soft spot in the schedule. Some fans will probably start talking NCAAT seedings and extensions. How the team has turned the corner, players a, b and c are beasts.

I’m not Nostradamus. I’ve seen this movie a dozen times.

It’s a team full of chinks in the armor with a simplistic, ineffective, inflexible offense and defense is an option philosophy.

The players are OK, but the coaching isn't.

 

[Buffel]

Offensively we are boring and unimaginative and predictable as hell, it’s Dedan plus four other guys. Defensively they were much better and it gave the Rebels a real chance. Unfortunately, Dayton hit late shots, shots that they couldn’t string together for most of the game and it was enough for them.

It’s far from an embarrassing loss, they fought hard and looked better overall.

But it appeared Dayton as a ranked team and near holidays … without seeing them play this season, I’m assuming they don’t always look this lethargic/off … they certainly did not look the part of a top 25 team. Not a lot of fire on their end either.

It happens sometimes at this point of the year.

Hopefully this is the beginning of “something” for the Rebels, something that is enough to give people a reason to follow them.

IT'S HARD WHEN A TEAM PLAYS HARD DEFENSE FOR 30 SECONDS THEN CANT GET A REBOUND AND HAS TO PLAY DEFENSE AGAIN AS THE OPPONENT GETS 2 MORE CHANCES TO SCORE.

 

[j. spilotro]

The players are OK, but the coaching isn't.

But ok isn’t good enough. You can’t have one good player and the rest as non-decript guys that could start in the lower MWC or ride pine in the upper MWC. We have a lot of players that do one thing pretty well but are shockingly bad at the other 6 parts of the game. You can’t build a team on those guys. We do.

 

[rebelzzz]

They’ll win the next four games, it’s a soft spot in the schedule....

Then they will loose 8 of the next 9 afterwards

 

[Rebel1986]

But ok isn’t good enough. You can’t have one good player and the rest as non-decript guys that could start in the lower MWC or ride pine in the upper MWC. We have a lot of players that do one thing pretty well but are shockingly bad at the other 6 parts of the game. You can’t build a team on those guys. We do.

You could build a team on these players if you had a coach who could coach up the players. Ask Odom how much better the same players that Arroyo recruited got with good coaching.

 

[j. spilotro]

You could build a team on these players if you had a coach who could coach up the players. Ask Odom how much better the same players that Arroyo recruited got with good coaching.

Eh …. Not saying they couldn’t do better if they were coached up and every player maximized their potential …. They’d be much better obviously. But that doesn’t happen often where many players hit their potential and maintain it …

I think we need to significantly upgrade talent mostly by way of having players that can do more than one thing. I don’t mind one trick ponies, actually, I welcome them. They give you extra strategy, you can pinpoint. Listen, Kendall Wallace had value, you can get great defenders that aren’t strong offensively. You can get somebody that cleans up every board. But I don’t want 3 of those types starting. Gives you a weak team. Most of our guys are uni-dimensional.