Its second half and we are up by 3 . I honestly dont know if anyone is watching.
This place is so sad now.
This place is so sad now.
In case anyone is watching?
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It’s an improvement though. If Menzies was coaching the team would be playing nobody and I wouldn’t be watching yet. At least there is a real schedule this year and for a 1st year coach this is not a bad start.
True though, if I was more excited about the season I would have tuned in earlier.
Dude...I really like the system that Otz runs. It's clear the players are buying in. Our defensive showing is impressive. The ball movement on the offensive side is equally as impressive.
It’s a big improvement. Far less “what the fk are we supposed to do?” on the floor. They don’t always play well but it’s not playing well, which happen, not “what are we doing?”
Tillman might be the biggest disappointment vs expectations thus far this year. So many bone-headed plays....
The ball movement got a lot better after Cal tied it up. The system has worked; the team has gotten several layups. It sure beats Dave Rice’s offense when players had a lot of “freedom” and would be chucking up bad threes and midrange jumpers.
Sure. I mean...what were your expectstion this year? I'd say we are exceeding them.
Didnt really have any expectations. Just a casual observation about the team.
In terms of depth, Jay Green and Shibel seem like obvious answers to me, but why aren't they getting more PT?
Jay Green was decent from what I remember, and wasn't Shibel supposed to be a somewhat decent outside shooter?
Winning time plagued Menzies and it appears we still haven't figured it out back to back games with last shot opportunities 2 clock violations. Coach Otz can't be happy about that no excuse for not getting shots off.
I have faith he'll figure it out just frustrating losses but a lot of fight in the boys hope they figure it out.
I have faith he'll figure it out just frustrating losses but a lot of fight in the boys hope they figure it out.
Aside from a tiny handful of blind people, I don’t think anybody had confidence in MM.
He was busy trying to pile up wins vs the Sisters of the Poor and inflate the record (yet we still dropped many of those games) and impress people. Worked on some people. But no wonder they didn’t improve, he didn’t test them, he didn’t schedule anybody. And he was afraid of the road. Thank God Otz doesn’t share that same scared of competition, we are victims, let me insert excuses before the fact, “slow growth” philosophy. All to create a distraction to the actual truth.
How can you predict the future? What do you have ESPN or something?
Major concern that I, and I assume everyone else paying enough attention to be posting here, have is depth.
Through 3 games, only 8 players have seen the floor. Likely the same in the 4th. If the benches don't get emptied a little, even with guys only getting 5-10 mins, we are in for a long, painful season. This isn't the Hardway Eight era, and these players are not those. It's a great way to have your top 5 players be absolutely crushed before conference play.
Iwonder if this is a first four games where he wants to see how hard these top 5-6 can be pushed and will back off between game 5 and conference play. Then call on them again in crunch time in conference and tourney play.
Through 3 games, only 8 players have seen the floor. Likely the same in the 4th. If the benches don't get emptied a little, even with guys only getting 5-10 mins, we are in for a long, painful season. This isn't the Hardway Eight era, and these players are not those. It's a great way to have your top 5 players be absolutely crushed before conference play.
Iwonder if this is a first four games where he wants to see how hard these top 5-6 can be pushed and will back off between game 5 and conference play. Then call on them again in crunch time in conference and tourney play.
I think/hope that’s what we will see.
But even for this year, no matter the w/l record, where we are weak right now, I want to see improvement over the course of the season. I want to see players turn corners individually too.
You can’t gauge that game to game, there are good games and bad games and fluky games. Month to month, just get better in the weaker areas. It doesn’t have to become a strength, but I want to see it improve. Even though I said game to game isn’t worth gauging, game two we had 25 turnovers and it was a huge reason for the loss. That wasn’t really slashed down in game 3... hopefully the game 3 turnovers become the norm....
That’s why I said hopefully. I don’t know how Otz is going to do either. A good coach should be able to significantly improve this team.
