Line ‘em up: Predictions and Game Thread Memphis
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After the first game, I am clueless how UNLV will do verse Memphis. No doubt this is a must win if Kruger wants to have any chance to save his coaching job.
I think he will be fine, regardless of the outcome of this game (thinking with head, not going by emotion).
But I really don’t have a clue what to expect either. This game serves as a barometer of sorts, the first one really didn’t.
I think there’s a chance that unless this season is a disaster, like 500 or worse, he may remain.
Not saying that it’s what SHOULD happen.
What I’m saying is we don’t know what UNLV is thinking big picture. Funds are limited. Football is making money. It’s starting to drive things. Football needs to be fed. Basketball is “surviving” at bare bones minimum. It can continue to survive at bare bones minimum while we feed football more.
It’s essentially flopping football/hoops of the 80’s/90’s.
Again, not saying we should or that’s what UNLV is thinking. I’m saying people should at least consider it as a viable possibility.
Doing that would piss off the remaining 200-300 diehards. But does that really matter in the grand scheme?
In order to progress as a school, it's what needs to happen.
It was a slow process to move from the daily paper to the internet, but here we are. Football needs to catch up with the digital age, so to speak. This is why I see CKK remaining as a viable option. For the money we spend, we get the results we expect.
I do not think there is a chance in hell that he would remain if they dropped off to around 500 ball. Most fans are pissed off when they go 21-13, how do you think fans would react if the team dropped down to around 18-16?
I’d be pissed, you’d be pissed, most on this board would be pissed, half the people that attend games would be pissed.
Really pissed. Demanding for a firing.
I agree with that.
So a large percentage of very low number would be pissed. A number so low that it doesn’t really matter. If we continue treading water as a mediocre program, what is going to happen? Attendance drop? We are at bare bones right now, any reduction in that doesn’t really hurt from where we are.
I’m saying the potential to focus on football as A, B, C and D is there for the first time in school history. If UNLV is serious about potential high line conference affiliations… it may require every single ounce of effort to go into the FB program.
Again, I’m not saying it’s the right thing to do, not saying UNLV is thinking it or even should think it … but trying to look at the potentials with a wider lens.
Exactly, low overhead (his salary) … results are within margins (very low expectations now as compared to previously).
Should he be fired with a 500-600 season? By standards of pre-Covid (as for a time frame, not because of Covid), absolutely. The track record would absolutely warrant a firing.
By standards of very few care about basketball since the C19 years, that expectations have hit rock bottom …. I can see the argument why he shouldn’t be fired with a mediocre year.
With the allowance of “slow growth”, with softie “tolerance” welcomed …. We’ve allowed for a new normal of Rebel hoops. When apathy is the fuel, this is what can happen. And with this, I can see where his current results are “acceptable”.
Hopefully we have a really good season and make the NCAAT and it’s all moot.
I think he can be replaced by a better coach for the same money or even less. Example: Danny Sprinkle was paid $ 185,000 at Montana State the year he left for Utah State. There are at least a dozen young, experienced and winning coaches who would come here for what CKK is getting.
If we have any P4 interest and if we want P4 interest then we need to be achieving conference championships. CKK needs to at least compete for a MWC Championship otherwise get him the hell out of here.
Former rebel Jackie Johnson has been killing it had 23 against St John
and had 18 and hit a gamer today against Seton Hall
and had 18 and hit a gamer today against Seton Hall
But he must have a constant green light. He's taking nearly half the shots of the entire team and his percentage is low.
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His shooting percentage is better than I expected to see (around 40% FG, 30% 3's) so good for him.
Against St John's: 8/19 overall, 3/10 from 3 (team took about 50 total shots, so he took 40%)
Against Seton Hall: 7/17 overall, 3/10 from 3 (team took about 52 total shots, so he took about 33%)
Well, that’s one of those things that could happen if UNLV decided to tread water while not costing a ton. But if UNLV were to look at it that way … there’d be some local influence against it and the argument of continuing with slow growth AND maintaining continuity would come into play.
First time watching the team this season. Rebels have bigs down low, length on the wings, some decent shooters, and of course an excellent point guard. If the coaching staff can coach up this squad they may have a shot to do some damage. They’ve played decent defense against Memphis but seem a bit scattered on offense. Lots of points off broken plays. At least on this first look for me they seem to have the ingredients, but the staff needs to get them playing together a lot better if they’re going to make any noise.
I should add that I’m not confident this staff can pull a really good team out of this group. CKK and company didn’t use a single timeout to get regroup the team in the final 5 min as Memphis went on a run to make it close at the half. Just watched as the lead evaporated.
Just bad basketball. Bad calls and bad plays down the stretch.
Shouldn’t have dropped this one.
Shouldn’t have dropped this one.
I'm shocked how much I just don't care about UNLV bball anymore. Even if they were actually good. Just buying time for the football game.
Their PG Haggerty outplayed our pg. As we did most of last year, dribble, dribble, dribble. No inside to out passing. No cutting. I cannot believe any coach could have team play worse offense all these years.
But hey let’s keep this guy around just because a few here think it’s cost effective? 🙄
Maybe in 2-3 years CKK will figure it out. Just getting that experience guys…
What if Lon donates above and beyond what Kevin earns so that UNLV comes out ahead in the deal? 🤣
****. Million dollars of basketball facilities wasted on this guy.
Be patient. They will grow, slowly. They just need a little time.
Tonight, they didn’t lose. The game clock ended too soon. Or not soon enough since the Rebs had the lead most of the second half.
Tonight, they didn’t lose. The game clock ended too soon. Or not soon enough since the Rebs had the lead most of the second half.
didn’t watch the game but I wanted to watch this at church and hook up the stream.
Too much of a joke to get this basketball team to watch.
Too much of a joke to get this basketball team to watch.
Coaching means more these days as the difference in athletes between the 100th to the 1000th best player in college hoop is not near what it used to be. Remember when Tarks unlv teams walked out vs non top teams, athletically it was a total mismatch. Now even teams like bama state the other night have some talent. If talent is more equal, then coaching provides the difference and we just play a vanilla offense and defense and never seem to adjust to anything. Memphis often pressured DJ with 2 guys, we never did a thing to Memphis point guard who killed us.
More coaches allowed, volunteer assistants. UNLV had many, helped with individual development. They had an insane conditioning program - I fully advocate that. You might not be the biggest, the fastest, the best shooting, best defensive … but IF you want, you CAN be the best conditioned, whether you are Canisius ie UCONN.
Watched the no screen offense and was sick to my stomach for the effort was there. Good group of athletes who missed some wide open shots, but lack of tempo by Thomas is killing this guard oriented offense. Need more quick under 8 second shots or this team will get bolloxed in the last four minutes by better athletes and compliant refereeing.
